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Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

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I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

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Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John Baxin with Gregory Coveli, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Gregory's guided me to read about Ethiopia.

This is a deep and extremely

sophisticated culture for millennia and right now the country itself is

ripped apart by an ongoing civil war and also act bad actors from outside and inside.

Gregory, you use the word collapse about Ethiopia.

And the fact is that the government in Addis Ababa does not seem to be in contact with the rest of the country.

What has turned you into thinking that the Addis Ababa is now going to fall or what will happen next in the capital?

Well something is going to happen soon because the government is losing control of

the countryside yes that you have the National Defense Force still operating in some areas of the country, but they're

fighting now against their own Aromo people, various elements there, and this bear in mind that the government is led

by the a Romo faction of the ruling party and Prime Minister Abbey is himself half a

romo. So basically you've got the government

not only fighting the Amhara and other groups but also fighting the

eromo and it's fighting all of the nationalists people who advocate for a unified

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