In June 2019 the Financial Times reported that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had broken with Ethiopian tradition by appointing young technocrats with international experience to key economic posts.
The story framed the appointments as part of an ambitious reform drive that needed people who could speak the language of markets and donors, even as older political networks still held power in many places.
Kept as politics archive, the FT feature dates the early Abiy-era bet on a younger economic management class.
Sources: Financial Times