Ethiopia: Commitment to Transparency Without Strong Civil Society, a Pipe Dream

editorial

Transparency rarely transpires with the ruling Revolutionary Democrats. It is a theme where their parlance differs widely from both the common man's and the intellectual's.

If one is to go by the books of Revolutionary Democracy, transparency seems to mean speaking what you prefer, only when you wish to have a word and the right way is under the accepted partisan principles. The fact is that what is acceptable under the centralised system of the ruling EPRDF might not always be plausible in the eyes of the users of the information.

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