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Leadership

After President Lincoln affirms his
commitment to defeat the southern
rebels at all costs, he compassionate-
ly pleads for peace.

“With malice toward none, with charity for
all, with firmness in the right as God gives
us to see the right, let us strive on to finish
the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s
wounds, to care for him who shall have
borne the battle and for his widow and
his orphan, to do all which may achieve
Ethiopia and its seven neighboring countries and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations.”
outside of the box, not confined cient birthplace of Ethiopia, must
to geo-politics. To alleviate nations come to end as soon as possible to Let Prime Minister Abiy use this
from quarreling over a limited sup- overture as a prelude to lead a
ply of Nile water, let us be bold in prevent the loss of more lives and healthy dialogue with the Ethiopian
our imagination. Instead, conceive further suffering. This laceration people; to unite the nation around
in the fabric of Ethiopian society
of the New Nile Project by con- should be healed, and not allowed the preeminence of an Ethiopian
structing nuclear powered desalina- to propagate. Following the govern- identity, one that supersedes ethnic-
tion plants along the Mediterranean ity. Reformulation of the Ethiopian
and Red Sea to create large amounts ment’s safeguarding of the Tigray Constitution of 1995 to emphasize
of new potable water. These nuclear region, an all-out mobilization Ethiopian citizenship, which tran-
must be launched, with vigorous
plants in additional to efficient de- international support, to rebuild scends ethno-regionalism, should
salination, and supplying abundant the province, upgrading economic follow.
energy, would become nuplexes–
manufacturing hubs for industrial conditions to guarantee that every It is in the shared, common, and
and agricultural development. person living in Tigray, a productive self-interest of all Ethiopians to
and dignified life.
Some addicted to the narrow think- participate in the development of
ing of geo-politics today, will object When the conflict in Tigray is their society and increase the wealth
and say it cannot be done, it will of their economy for the benefit
take too long and cost too much. concluded, it would be appropriate of themselves and their posterity.
To those naysayers, I would respond for Prime Minister Abiy to emulate With the near future generation of
the spirit of President Lincoln’s
by asking, is it better to have water Second Inaugural Address. It was 6,200 megawatts of electricity from
wars among emerging nations that delivered on March 4, 1865, almost the GERD, Ethiopia will bring light
are struggling to feed their people and prosperity to all its citizens. This
laden by poverty? As populations four years after the war began, is cause for all Ethiopians to join
expand, and economies grow, more which killed hundreds of thou- together in joyous celebration.
sands of Americans, and six weeks
water will be required. Why not use before his enemies assassinated him.
the urgency of resolving today’s
combative dispute over the filling of
the GERD, to prod our lazy minds Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power station today turned on its temporary mobile groundwater
to create a solution for the future of desalination plant, which will ease the pressure on the City of Cape Town’s water supply.
Courtesy esi-africa.com)
the Nile Basin? Overcoming all the
many engineering and scientific im-
pediments to achieve our New Nile
Project will be challenging, but this
is the very reason we human beings
were put here on earth.

A Just End To A New Beginning
The fighting in Tigray, the an-

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