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Ethiopia

how we got here

Residual anger and power politics boil over into conflict in Ethiopia

For three years, between 2015 and early 2018, there were popular protests across Ethiopia, but particularly in the country’s two largest regions ... – Oromia and Amhara.

The popular discontent was driven by the 27-year-long marginalisation of most ethnic groups, massive corruption that bankrupted the state, and an ethnic federal arrangement that caused racial tensions and ethnic violence.

best of 2020

Ethiopia ends 2020 with a bang

Ethiopia has ended the year on a very awkward and troubling note. From the arrival of the pandemic, the upsurge in protests across Oromio to ... the war in Tigray. One thing is certain: the country is going into 2021 entirely changed.

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Demonstration in Montecitorio Square, Rome, Italy, on November 12, 2020 calling for the end of the government’s military actions in the northern region of Tigray

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Did Ethiopia’s attack on Tigray violate international laws?

A legal scholar weighs in on the decision taken by Ethiopian prime minister Ahmed Abiy to send troops into the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, ... to quell what the government sees as an insurgency.

Lighting up Africa

Africa’s BRICs held back by lack of electricity

Lack of access to electricity is holding back the prospects of potentially high-growth African economies. ...

Sudan Ethiopia

prepare for the worst hope for the best

Ethiopia – Tigray: Ethiopians fear a full-fledged war ‘like the old days’

Earlier this week, the UN announced that an agreement was reached with the Ethiopian Government to allow “unimpeded, sustained and secure access” ... for humanitarian supplies to reach those in need across areas now under its control in Tigray. But until a complete end of hostilities is announced, Ethiopians remain on edge.

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Sudan Ethiopia

beating drums of war

Why Ethiopia’s conflict in Tigray was avoidable

I grew up in Ethiopia during the days of the military government. For years before its overthrow in 1991, the national army was locked in a protracted ... war against rebel movements in the north. It was common in those days to hear state media reporting the capture or recapture of towns from rebel forces. The parading of prisoners of war made daily headlines.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed meets with AU envoys in Addis Ababa

insurgency beckons

Where next for Abiy’s Ethiopia after Tigray operation ‘completed’?

On Saturday night, Ethiopia's Prime Minister declared that the northern city of Mekelle was 'under [the] command of National Defense Forces'. ... Abiy's claim that the city of half a million people is under control is impossible to verify given the current telecoms blackout. It also leaves the future unclear. Here are three scenarios for how things might turn out.

Red Sea Dynamics: part 9

The Red Sea: A magnet for outside powers vying for its control

The overriding concern of non-regional actors in the Red Sea arena is freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal, Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb, and ... Gulf of Aden. In this final part of our series, we look at the constant quest and struggle for control of the Red Sea waterway by non-regional actors and their impact.

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Red Sea Dynamics: part 8

Sudan – Red Sea basin: Four ways to make or break stability

Following Sudan's revolution over a year ago, a peace agreement has been signed and political changes are taking shape with increasing speed. ... But attention must be directed to elements that can make or break peace in Sudan, including dealing with past atrocities, centre-periphery relations and the role of the military in nation building. In this eighth part of our series, we explore how Sudan's peace determines the stability in the Red Sea basin.

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Sudan Ethiopia

africa's hidden war

Tigray: The AU failed Ethiopia, while US calls the shots

It is almost three weeks since a large-scale war started in the Tigray region of Ethiopia involving a multitude of internal actors and external ... military players. That this is happening in a country where the African Union (AU) is rooted, with its overarching slogan ‘silencing the guns in Africa’, is puzzling, to say the least.

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