Skills, Sovereignty, and BRICS: Ethiopia’s Path to Shared Prosperity
21:33 05.05.2025 (Updated: 22:04 05.05.2025)
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Skills, Sovereignty, and BRICS: Ethiopia’s Path to Shared Prosperity
Ethiopia's State Minister for Labor Employment and Market Sector Solomon Soka has underscored the critical link between homegrown skills development and Ethiopia’s economic transformation, especially in key sectors like agriculture, industry, tourism, mining, and digital tech.
“If we create the ecosystem or the value chain along those technologies… it creates job opportunities along the different value chain and reduces unemployment,” he told Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of Ethiopia’s National Skills Competition.
With over 70% of its 120 million citizens under 30, Ethiopia has a demographic advantage—but turning that into wealth means investing in skills. Soka emphasized that BRICS partnerships offer Ethiopia a vital chance to learn from emerging global players:
“Such kind of collaboration at the national level can give us an opportunity to benefit from the experiences of the BRICS states.”
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