APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) The Ethiopian Ministry of Transport and Logistics on Tuesday announced that it will not allow vehicles to enter into the country unless they are electric ones.
The ministry made the announcement while it presented a six-month performance report to the Urban Development and Transport Standing Committee in the House of People’s Representatives (Ethiopian Parliament).
Alemu Sime, Minister of Transport and Logistics, announced the completion of Ethiopia’s Logistics Master Plan involving implementation of “Green Transport” in the east African nation.
“A decision has been made that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia unless they are electric ones,” Sime stated.
However, the affordability of electric cars for a significant portion of the Ethiopian population poses a potential challenge while not forgetting the percentage of the population able to afford a car remains negligible.
He further explained that efforts to establish charging stations for electric cars are in progress. One of the reasons behind this decision is Ethiopia’s inability to afford importing gasoline due to limited foreign exchange resources – according to the minister.
You’re right about the first sentence.
The second sentence is more of a mixed bag.
Mixed bag yes.
But places like South Africa, Namibia and Rhodesia were certainly doing a lot better than everything around them.
Depends on if you count apartheid as better
Well Rhodesia never had that. Crime rates are getting a lot worse in south Africa.
All of those territories were ruled by a white settler minorities oppressing and exploiting the native people. They maintained their anti-democratic colonial political and economic systems. To any extent they were doing g “better” the overwhelming majority of the population was prohibited from benefiting from that.
Just goes to show how bad the alternative isn’t it, if something bad is better. The majority of the population still benefited though. Its not like everything got worse. Genocide dropped, wars and infant mortality decreased, healthcare and education increased.