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People walk in the street in the city of Gondar, on November 09, 2020. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
ABIY AHMED

Ethiopia is about to cross the point of no return

As the conflict between the national government and Tigray escalates, the window for intervention is closing fast

  • Rashid Abdi
  • Tobias Hagmann
5 min read
Twenty-eight years after EPRDF took power, the story is not very different as human rights continue to be violated with impunity. (Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
ADDIS ABABA

28 years later, Ethiopia’s ruling party must end impunity for human rights abuses

The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front celebrates 28 years in power on Tuesday. Now is the time to confront its brutal past

  • Fisseha Tekle
5 min read
At age 42, Abiy is considerably younger than the old guard and, with the sympathy of many protesters, he appears well suited to the task of assuaging the grievances of the country’s neglected groups. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)
ABIY AHMED

Managing Ethiopia’s unsettled transition: what should Abiy Ahmed do next?

Abiy Ahmed has generated great excitement with initiatives breaking with the past. But he faces formidable challenges

  • Crisis Group
8 min read
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (Kumera Gemechu/Reuters)
ABIY AHMED

Ethiopia’s ethnic conflicts destabilise Abiy’s reforms

Abiy Ahmed has introduced dramatic reforms since assuming power more than nine months ago. But as ethnic clashes flare, the changes may not be enough

  • Deutsche Welle 1
  • Agency
4 min read
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (Kumera Gemechu/Reuters)
ABIY AHMED

World Bank to give Ethiopia $1bn in budgetary assistance — PM

In first press conference since taking office in April, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also says 2020 election will be free and fair

  • Agency
3 min read
Twenty-eight years after EPRDF took power, the story is not very different as human rights continue to be violated with impunity. (Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
ABIY AHMED

Ethiopia in peace agreement with Eritrea

The two countries have been hostile towards each other since 1998

  • Arielle Schwartz
2 min read
Protests are taking place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region an opposition stronghold.
ABIY AHMED

Ethiopia’s slow-motion revolution

The new prime minister is a decisive break from the past, but will he keep pushing for reform?

  • Simon Allison
5 min read
The Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn delivered a stark warning Friday to anyone linked to terrorist groups hours after the charges were laid.
ANDM

Ethiopia has released a handful of prisoners – but nothing else has changed

Hailemariam never explicitly admitted the existence of “political prisoners”. But while vague, his words were clear to everyone, except his government

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read