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The Dream Squad of the African teams in the World Cup

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For Qatar, the African teams have many world-class players and if they were to combine, they would undoubtedly be one of the best teams in the world.

From goalkeeper to striker, there are certain players who make a difference in their teams, and with their national team, they are starters and stars. For this tournament, each of them will be making history in the most important national team tournament in the world.

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This is the Dream Team of the African continent for this World Cup.

 Goalkeeper: Edoudard Mendy 

The Chelsea goalkeeper is one of the best in the world, and with his national team, he is virtually impenetrable. He was the best goalkeeper in the African Cup of Nations, and last year he was the best in Europe.

This season he has had some ups and downs and a couple of mistakes that cost Chelsea the Champions League title, but the World Cup is an important moment to recover his level and prove that he is the best on the continent.

  1. Right-back: Achraf Hakimi 

The Moroccan has become one of the best full-backs in the world, with PSG he showed his great level, although he could not crown it with the Champions League, he was one of the best weapons of the team offensively, and defensively, he was impassable.

His partnership with Mbappé is spectacular and before that, at Madrid, he took over the right-wing where Benzema was one of his best allies. He plays with the best and is at the level of the best. Surely, at the World Cup, he will raise his bonuses and try to make a difference for Morocco.

  1. Centre-back: Kalidou Koulibaly 

The Napoli defender is so good that Barcelona and Premier League teams are looking for him. He is strong, fast, and a leader. He is the captain of his national team and African champion, without a doubt, he is in a spectacular moment.

With Senegal, he has the task of making history. Starting with the defence they have nothing to worry about with this strong defender who is likely to end up as one of the greats of Europe.

  1. Centre-back: Romain Saiss 

The Wolverhampton defender is the captain of his national team and leader of a squad that normally struggles in the Premiership. His versatility makes him also play in midfield because of his physical strength and vision.

Saiss, who is in charge of commanding his team and being the first outlet pass, normally his good touch of the ball makes him a threat, even if he plays 80 metres away from the opponent’s goal. At the World Cup, he will try to be the backbone of his national team, which wants to make an impact on the world stage.

5: Left full-back: Saliou Ciss  

A speedster who takes possession of the left flank of the pitch, he moves up and down relentlessly and offensively and defends neatly. He was one of the best players when Senegal were crowned African champions this year and is sure to be one of the team’s best weapons.

At the moment he is living a great level with his team in France and with his national team, the World Cup is an important showcase to prove that he is a great player and that he deserves to be in one of the best in the world.

  1. Centre midfielder: André Frank Anguissa 

The Napoli midfielder is a vacuum cleaner, everything that happens in his area he takes and distributes to his teammates correctly, when the Neapolitan team was in the first places he was one of the elements responsible for the order of the team, and pivot with similar characteristics to Busquets.

Besides, his physical strength and great ball striking make him a dangerous player in the offensive phase of the team. The World Cup is another opportunity for Cameroon, and Anguissa is the centerpiece of the Indomitable Lions.

7. Right midfielder: Hannibal Mejbri 

He is a center-half, but can start on the right to play behind the strikers. This talented Tunisian is at Manchester United, and although he has not been able to play much in England, his quality is unquestionable.

With his national team, he is just beginning his journey, but in this World Cup he will surely be one of the players who will shine the most, as he needs to be seen to convince Erik Ten Hag of his worth and he can start earning minutes at Old Trafford.

  1. Centre-half: Thomas Partey 

The Arsenal midfielder is a bull in the middle, strong, quick and with a lot of judgment when he has the ball, he is one of the most important players of the Gunners and the Black Stars.

With Atlético, he was not given the chance to shine as he would have liked, but at Arsenal, he found a place. Although the team was not so good, Partey was always important in Arteta’s system and with his national team, he is undisputed. He will be the driving force for Ghana in this World Cup.

  1. Left midfielder: Erik Maxim Choupo-Moting 

He is a nominal centre-forward, but is no stranger to the left flank, where he has done well with his physical power and speed.

With Bayern, he is used in all areas of the attack with good results and is an excellent replacement. With his national team, he is one of the starters who always sets the rhythm of the team. This World Cup is perfect for Erik and his national team, as they are in good shape and looking forward to remembering those times when Cameroon used to surprise the world.

  1. Forward: Vincent Aboubakar 

One of the best African strikers of the moment, the leader of his national team, and a natural goalscorer. A predator in the penalty area with tremendous strength and enviable vision. Aboubakar could easily play for any big European club.

In the African Cup, he could not do more to give Cameroon the title and this World Cup is his revenge because he knows that this moment of form is difficult to get it again, so he wants to take advantage of it.

  1. Sadio Mané 

The best player in Africa, and perhaps, after Benzema, the best striker in the world. With Liverpool, he lived a wonderful moment that he could not crown with the Champions League. He won almost everything he played, including the national team.

For the World Cup, he wants to take the team on his shoulders to give happiness to his country and make world history. It won’t be easy because there are tough opponents in front of him, but Mané is one of the best in the world, and playing against world-class guys is just another day at the office for him.

Do you like the line-up, and who else would you put in from the teams going to Qatar?

 

UK could fuel the ambitions of Ethiopian companies seeking to grow

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By Alastair McPhail

This week I was delighted to attend our Ethiopia launch event for the UK-Africa Deal Room – an exciting new platform that we hope will increase investment in Ethiopia.
In January 2020, London hosted the UK-Africa Investment Summit. On a platform in front of Heads of State and dignitaries from across the continent, the UK Prime Minister made it the aim of the UK to become the investor of choice across Africa. Our Prime Minister made it clear that we want to be known for encouraging sustainable investments that will help drive economic growth, sustainability and prosperity.
I’m pleased to say that momentum has not slowed – even in the midst of a global pandemic. Since 2020, the UK has hosted two further African Investment Conferences to raise the profile of investment opportunities and counter perceptions about the challenges of doing business in African markets. Over 3000 delegates attended the two conferences.
Indications are that we are making progress – with the most up-to-date figures showing that UK investment to Africa rose by 7% in 2020 to £47.9 billion, compared to £44.7 billion in 2019. Throughout the pandemic the UK has maintained both scale and impact of investment. British businesses have continued to be some of the most active, supporting communities and protecting jobs. I’m proud to see UK businesses active in Ethiopia in sectors such as energy, telecoms and manufacturing.
This week, with the support of Grant Thornton Ethiopia, we were joined by a wide range of rapidly growing Ethiopian companies to explore another way in which the UK can deliver transformative investment – through private equity growth capital for home-grown businesses.
The UK is internationally renowned for its financial services. The City of London is recognised as a global financial hub – with trillions of assets at its disposal. It is the biggest single sector for UK investment into Africa – seeing annualised pre-Covid growth of over 25%.
On this basis, the concept of the UK-Africa Deal Room is a simple one. On the UK side, we look to work with institutional investors to understand their mandates. We look to encourage them to take a closer look at the opportunities presented by African markets to shape those mandates, increasing the supply of capital to markets such as Ethiopia. On the Ethiopian side, we look to source high-quality, investment ready deals that match those mandates and help shape their proposals – with the aim of putting those two sides together.
At our Ethiopia launch on Tuesday, I saw the impressive depth and breadth of Ethiopian businesses looking for growth capital capable of taking them to the next stage of their development. I enjoyed discussing the different ways in which the UK could potentially fuel their ambitions – and the importance of supporting companies to get them ‘investment ready’.
We also heard about the benefits of bringing private equity investment on board. Yes, growth capital is often the main driver, but we heard from investees who have also benefitted substantially from global expertise in supporting high growth companies – ensuring that investments deliver on their potential.
Since launch in 2020, the Deal Room platform has developed a portfolio of matching projects from across the African continent with a combined value of over £400 million, in leading sectors such as agriculture, financial services, energy, infrastructure, education, and healthcare. We want ultimately to hear from capital seekers with investable opportunities, so that these can be presented to UK investors.
In this context however, institutions also matter. It’s why I am delighted that last month the UK Government helped to launch Financial Sector Development (FSD) Ethiopia, which is bringing UK expertise and resources to help develop financial and capital markets here in Ethiopia, as well as announcing funding to help establish the Ethiopia Securities Exchange. There is no better partners in these endeavours than the UK, whose first stock exchanges were established in the 16th Century.
Encouraging UK investment into Ethiopia sits at the very core of both my Embassy’s and the wider UK Government’s objectives in this country, and governments and businesses are most effective when we work together. Our hope is that through UK capital and expertise, we will jointly develop a vibrant capital market in Ethiopia into which UK funds will invest long into the future.

Dr Alastair McPhail is British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU

The Ethiopian food systems transformation pathway: A valuable opportunity to bring safer food and improve health

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The Ethiopian food systems transformation pathway: A valuable opportunity to bring safer food and improve health

By Kebede Amenu

Globally, nearly half a million people die of foodborne diseases (FBDs) every year-with children making up 30% of these deaths. In Africa, where the numbers are soberingly high, the death toll is around 140,000 people each year. In addition to the tragedy of the many that die, FBDs also create a massive economic burden-low- and middle-income countries across Africa and Asia are estimated to lose US$95 billion per year due to unsafe food. Yet the burden of FBDs is still not fully recognized in many countries, and as our food systems become increasingly complex, this situation is set to deteriorate further. Fortunately, researchers and governments in Africa are starting to take action to address this.
In September 2021, the United Nations Food Systems Summit called member states-including Ethiopia-to transform their food systems so that people and the planet alike can enjoy a healthier, safer and more prosperous environment.
In connection with the global, regional and national food systems and safety challenges, the Ethiopian government has committed to advancing the implementation of an ambitious food systems transformation launched in 2020 and outlined in a document known as the ‘Ethiopian Food Systems Transformation Pathway’ (EFS-TP). The EFS-TP addresses major areas critical to achieving country-wide access to safe and nutritious food along with a shift towards sustainable consumption patterns, more nature positive production systems, equitable livelihoods, and resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and stress-all by 2030.
However, a variety of challenges stand in the way of the food systems transformation. Continued population growth, unplanned urbanization and a lack of food safety infrastructure are stressing Ethiopia’s food systems and lowering the overall safety of food supplies. To make matters worse, we lack accurate estimates of the actual health burden of FBDs in Ethiopia which limits our grasp of their magnitude or insight into how best to tackle them-a challenge the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is addressing in collaboration with The Ohio State University and other partners through the TARTARE project.
TARTARE, which aims to better understand the burden of FBDs caused by key pathogens in raw beef and dairy in Ethiopia, is working to achieve greater food safety by promoting the use of risk-based approaches to the management of food safety issues. These approaches focus on identifying priority FBDs to help strategically allocate the limited resources available in Ethiopia for food safety.
As the immense burden of FBDs in Ethiopia becomes clearer, the EFS-TP has outlined key steps to address food safety concerns in the country. Included in the EFS-TP are five ‘Action Tracks’ that delineate the intended long-term outcomes. Action Track 1 is to ‘ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all’, underscoring the fact that prioritizing food safety is fundamental to a successful food systems transformation.
The steps necessary to achieve Action Track 1 begin with strengthening Ethiopia’s national food safety management and regulation system. This will require working with relevant stakeholders to assess and upgrade the national food control system as well as focusing on specific value chains and sectors at risk of FBD transmission, such as poultry, beef and dairy. The EFS-TP also highlights the importance of influencing behaviour so that Ethiopian consumers begin to demand safer food from producers.
Food safety interventions are inherently complex, so it is necessary to determine what kind of interventions can best support the Ethiopian government’s intended food safety outcomes. In addition to the TARTARE project, the ILRI led Pull-Push project aims to generate sustainable improvements in food safety by co-implementing ‘pull’ (demand for safe food) and ‘push’ (supply of safe food) approaches in Ethiopia’s informal markets. The project includes trainings for food safety regulators and vendors to better manage food safety risks. In line with the Ethiopian government’s goal to influence consumer behaviour, the project is also developing communication campaigns to educate consumers on the best food safety practices.
While these efforts and the Ethiopian government’s acknowledgement of the importance of food safety are encouraging, there is still a lot of work to be done. Food safety has historically been seen as a secondary issue in Ethiopia which has made it difficult to address FBDs. While Ethiopia’s food systems transformation presents a unique chance to change this, it could quickly become a missed opportunity if the Ethiopian government does not take urgent action to improve food safety.
On the other hand, if the Ethiopian government takes full advantage of this opportunity to place food safety at the centre of its food systems agenda, it could have a tremendously beneficial impact on the ground. By taking direct actions to improve food safety, such as those outlined in the EFS-TP, the Ethiopian government can take a huge step towards combating FBDs in the country-ultimately saving lives, reducing economic costs, and improving the health and livelihoods of Ethiopians.

Dr Kebede Amenu is faculty member of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture of Addis Ababa University, and a postdoctoral fellow at the International Livestock Research Institute which is based in Ethiopia. His main areas of research encompass food safety interventions and priority settings in animal health.

Gov’t pays higher dues to narrow debt matrix

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Gov’t pays higher dues to narrow debt matrix

Despite the external flow which was expected to way heftily on government, the country has been able to steer itself to settle over 15 percent of higher external debt in the first nine months of the budget year when compared with the same period of last year. The debt settlement is higher than the new flow that contributes to reduce the external debt rate.
In spite of the internal and external thorns that poke the country’s economy, the Ethiopian government has continued with its high commitment to settle its international debt.
According to the latest public sector debt statistics bulletin which was analyzed and issued by the Debt Management Directorate of the Ministry of Finance; in the first nine months of the budget year that closed March 31, the country has settled over USD 1.64 billion to international creditors.
Of the total amount settled during the nine months, close to USD 1.3 billion was principal whilst USD 378.8 million was interest payments.
In comparison to last year’s third quarter report, the debt service had an increment of 15.13 percent. In the 2020/21 budget year, in the first nine months, the government settled about USD 1.43 billion.
As is customary, the major portion of debt service was dominated by state owned enterprises (SOE) and the remaining payment was the share of the central government.
In the stated period, SOE’s paid USD 1.22 billion which is a slight reduction when compared with the same period of last year.
At the end of March 2021, SOE’s debt settlement was USD 1.25billion which is higher by USD 29 million or 2.3 percent compared with this year’s nine month performance on the sector.
However, the central government service has significantly increased compared with the same period of last year.
The bulletin indicated that in the nine months the central government service had spiked to USD 425.6 million which is an increment of 136 percent when compared with USD 180.6 million made the same period of last year.
Over the last nine months that started July 1, the total external public debt disbursement was USD 774.85 million, with about 64 percent going to central government projects from various creditors, the majority of which came from IDA, and the remaining 36 percent went to SOEs mostly to Ethiopian Airlines.
In comparison to the previous four years, the total amount of external funding disbursed in the last one and a half years was significantly lower.
“One of the reasons for the decrease in disbursement is that SOEs have not borrowed in the last three years and are disbursing less and less for their older projects as they near completion while their undisbursed balance decreases,” the Debt Management Directorate quarterly bulletin read.
During the last three quarters, only three loan agreements have been signed with partners, one for a central government project and the other two for Ethiopian Airlines Aircraft purchase, totaling USD 290.74 million, with the majority being borrowed by Ethiopian Airlines (USD 279.52 million) and the remaining USD 11.22 million by the central government.
The decrease in external total public sector debt was about USD 1.03 billion, or it decreased by 4 percent; one reason for this decrease in stock of debt can be explained by USD exchange rate variation, which is a relatively stronger USD against other foreign currencies during March 2022 compared to June 2021, which the last month of the past budget year, resulted in reducing the debt stock in terms of USD, which is approximately USD 541.04 million.
“Another reason for the debt stock’s decline is that principal payments were higher than new disbursements, resulting in a negative net flow of USD 492.0 million,” the bulletin explained.
During the last three quarters, the net external debt resource flows (Disbursement-Principal payments) are negative (USD – 492.00 million), implying that the amount of disbursement from external sources (inflow) is less than the total external principal payments to creditors (outflow), and the net resource transfer, which is disbursement (inflow) minus principal payments minus interest payments, is USD – 870.81 million.
As of March 31, 2022, total public sector external debt was USD 28.45 billion, compared to USD 29.48 billion as of June 30, 2021.
Nominal external debt in percent of GDP was around 25.6 percent; present value of external debt in percent of GDP was around 18.7 percent.
External debt makes up around 49.9 percent of overall government debt, while the central government is responsible for 67.5 percent of the entire external debt, while SOEs with government guarantees and without government guarantees are responsible for 21.8 percent and 10.6 percent respectively.

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