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Prime Minister has his work cut out to keep Ethiopia’s transition on track

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Ethiopia’s political opening has won plaudits but also uncorked ethnic strife. The government should proceed cautiously ahead of elections in 2020
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Life as an Eritrean journalist

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It’s official: Eritrea is the world’s most censored country. This is one journalist’s account of what it is like to work there
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Africa’s most authoritarian school

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The militarised Warsai Yikealo Secondary School is at the heart of Eritrea’s repressive regime, according to Human Rights Watch
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How the glow of the historic accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea has faded

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A year ago Eritreans could hardly contain their joy as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed touched down in Asmara. The city had seen...
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Open letter to Eritrea’s president: Let us visit detained activists and journalists

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103 of Africa’s most prominent thinkers ask to visit their incarcerated colleagues in Eritrea
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Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopian exceptionalism

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Ethiopia’s new prime minister is trying to do things differently. If he succeeds, the consequences will be felt beyond his borders
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With border open, Ethiopia and Eritrea are back in business

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After 20 years of bloody conflict and grim stalemate, the Ethiopia-Eritrea border is bustling once again
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Ethiopia reopens embassy in Eritrea as relations warm

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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace pact in July
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World Bank to give Ethiopia $1bn in budgetary assistance — PM

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In first press conference since taking office in April, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also says 2020 election will be free and fair
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Song, dance and tears as Ethiopian flight lands in Eritrea

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The emotion-filled Ethiopian Airlines flight took off less than two weeks after the neighbouring countries declared an end to two decades of bloodshed
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Eritrea reopens embassy in Ethiopia amid thaw

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More than 20 years after the two countries broke off relations, Eritrea's president reopened his country's embassy in Ethiopia
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Ethiopian Airlines to operate daily flights to Eritrea

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The opening of ties could be an economic boon to the two nations, both poor but on very different paths
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Ethiopia’s political opening has won plaudits but also uncorked ethnic strife. The government should proceed cautiously ahead of elections in 2020

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