It's really hard to form stable, wealthy countries in general. Countries that have developed in the last 60 years tend to have strong authoritarian leaders and

It's really hard to form stable, wealthy countries in general. Countries that have developed in the last 60 years tend to have strong authoritarian leaders and the favor and interest of Europe and the United States. Ethopia does have natural resources but it doesn't have a strong central government, partly because the warring factions want control of the resources. Places like UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar had strong dictators before they developed the petroleum industry. African states that have oil tend to be too weak politically to resist outside interests taking the wealth by paying bribes and funding warring factions.