“We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as t...” — Hailemariam Desalegn Quote

“We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as the gateway and will do everything to make African and Israeli relations mushroom.”

“As one of the leading troop-contributing countries, Ethiopia attaches great importance to strengthening the role of United Nations peacekeeping to address challenges to international peace and security.”

“We are ready to be criticised by any journalists because we know we are not perfect.”

“What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.”

“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.”