Ethiopia: Prime minister Accused International Criminal Court (ICC)

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Public Diplomacy and National security news. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn defended his government’s policies and accused the International Criminal Court (ICC) of “intimidating” African leaders.

“Proof of this is the economic performance that made Ethiopia one of the fastest growing economies in the world,” Desalegn said at a parliamentary session. “In this fiscal year, our growth is projected at 11.4 percent, which surpasses the average 5-percent growth in the rest of Africa,” he said.

The Ethiopian premier said his country was implementing railway and manufacturing projects worth a total of $6.4 billion.

“The ongoing railway project, covering a total length of 2,095km, is the biggest of all the mega-projects in the country,” he said.

“So far, work on 1,500km of the stated project is well in progress in two corridors, the first one being the route from Addis Ababa to Djibouti and the other running from Mekelle to Awash [towns located to the north and east of the Ethiopian capital respectively],” Desalegn added.