A leader’s admission of atrocities in Tigray fulfills a principle of accountability. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board Over the past quarter century, Africa’s leaders have steadily erected standards to better manage their own... Read more »
Reuters – Gunmen killed at least 20 people last week in western Ethiopia, a regional government official said on Thursday, in what he and two residents described as an attack on civilians... Read more »
BY ADDISU LASHITEW | First Published in Foreign Policy On Nov. 28, 2020, Ethiopia’s military took control of Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, after a monthlong fight with the Tigray People’s Liberation... Read more »
This week Ethiopia’s government entered the controversial sixth year of its five-year mandate. But the administration of Abiy Ahmed isn’t going anywhere… not even after a particularly violent summer. Covid-19 has produced plenty of... Read more »
In reply to Hope. Hope, It should have been basic for you to know, this people like, Al Mariam, are nothing but power hungry beasts who don’t give a rats ass about... Read more »
Al-Jazeera Ethiopia has arrested more than 9,000 people after deadly clashes last month, the state-run human rights commission has told the Reuters news agency, raising fears that a government hailed for reforms... Read more »
Ethiopia is treading a political tightrope as its unresolved ethnic tensions erupt in violence again
By Yohannes Gedamu Oromia, one of the regions in Ethiopia’s ethnically constituted federation and the country’s most populated one, also happens to be the political constituency of prime minister Abiy Ahmed. Unfortunately, the region is... Read more »
By Yohannes Gedamu In November, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed established a new pan-Ethiopian political party. It brings together three of the four ethnic-based parties that make up the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic... Read more »
By Awol K Allo Last month, three of the four ethnic-based parties that make up Ethiopia‘s ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), voted to merge into a single national party,... Read more »
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