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Editorial | The Habesha November 5, 2026 Ethiopia’s Economic Suffering Behind Abiy Ahmed’s GDP Claim. A displaced family cannot eat a GDP ranking. A farmer cannot rebuild a destroyed livelihood with a statistical revision. A young Ethiopian searching for work cannot turn a government announcement into a salary. Yet Ethiopia’s newly announced $210.7 billion economy is being presented in celebratory headlines as evidence of the country’s emergence among Africa’s economic giants. For citizens struggling with insecurity and living costs, that language demands a hard response: where is the prosperity they can actually use? The Abiy Ahmed government must answer with

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