Ethiopia has done so much,and is best gov't in millennia,but they can't equate to such Asian giants like Korea,africa won't attain its potential so long theirs tribalism, ethnic and religious squabbling.The so called opposition are mainly the Amhara ethnic group yearning for the days they had yoke on people with such disastrous results and must be taken with grain of salt.The fact that Somalis are much ahead of thm in telecommunication(internet,TV,Telephones and all kinds of media),banking,business, and the freedom to curse the president & gov't anywhere at anytime tells that Ethiopia is still rigid society that can only go two steps forward while retrenching a step back.
People in Ethiopia miss-call Somalia because it damn expensive(actually very expensive in/out of Ethiopia).You might spend $3 for less than 2 minutes calling from/to Ethiopia TO from/to hargeisa while that $3 last you atleast 30-40 minutes when calling from Hargeisa or Mogadishu to Europe or America and even double of that late at nite.On top of that Ethiopian telecom/internet very slow & unreliable.Light goes out in addis nightly while in hargeisa/burao you might see that once couple of months for a minute or so unless some drastic happens and that's not all the city but in one or two neighborhoods as there r many different electric companies.
and with all the 10s of billions pouring into Ethiopia! its clear that centralized,gov't run business can only go so far....nothing can match private business.