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Ethiopia

Population: 72.7 million
GNI: $12900 million
Debt: $5900 million
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As international criticism mounts, Premier Meles Zenawi will ease the hard line against domestic opposition, except Ogadeni separatists. Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia and the Eritrea border will be heavily contested.

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  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

Addis plays its diplomatic cards

Ethiopian diplomats are confident of a couple of successes at the United Nations in the coming weeks. The first is over Somalia, where the UN Special Representative Ahmedou Ould Abdallah has called for a stronger international presence in the country ...

  • Vol 48 No 24
  • 30/11/2007

Ethiopia's options

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government has three options for its Somalia policy, all of them formidably difficult.

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

That troublesome border

The quarrel between Addis Ababa and Asmara over their common border and the political chaos in Somalia is intensifying. The heat turned up after the Ethiopia Eritrea Boundary Commission announced on 7 September that it would demarcate the border by t...

  • Vol 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

The Ogaden's trickling sands

The Ogaden's bloody struggle has a wider global dimension

  • Vol 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

Roots of the ONLF rebellion

The Ogaden National Liberation Front joined the political system in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional in 1991 and it had a majority in the administration. In 1994, it split over the issue of a referendum on self-determination.

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

The Millennium deal

Political compromises could mark the start of a new style for both government and opposition

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

Boiling point

Eritrea and Ethiopia, whose leaders detest each other, are clashing on three regional issues. Moreover, hawks in Addis believe – rightly or wrongly – that Ethiopia's support for the 'War on Terror' will shield it from any pressure from the United States' ...

  • Vol 48 No 13
  • 22/06/2007

WARRIORS BY PROXY

With Somalia looking more settled, Ethiopia has been looking towards Eritrea, which it sees as the regional spoiler. On 8 June, Addis Ababa wrote to the United Nations Security Council President calling for Chapter VII sanctions against Eritrea, in or...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

The great gamble

Ethiopia and others bet on the TFG

  • Vol 48 No 8
  • 13/04/2007

RENDITION CONFUSION

The United States' War on Terror is catching many innocent people in its crossfire and hundreds of these are held incommunicado by the Ethiopian and Kenyan authorities on suspicion of terrorism, according to US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Britai...

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