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Ethiopia
Population: 84.8 mn.
GDP: 29.7 bn.
Debt: 2.9 bn.
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The EPRDF congress in September will discuss possible successors to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, with Haile Mariam Desalegne as a front-runner despite Amhara and Oromo opposition. High growth rates and collaboration with the USA and UK on Somalia will deflect criticism on human rights.

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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Critics still not welcome

In Africa Confidential Vol 52 No 25, we said Wubishet Taye of the Awramba Times had fled Ethiopia (‘Critics still not welcome’). In fact, it was Awramba Times Managing Editor Dawit Kebede who fled the country after hearing that he was about to be arrested...

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Critics still not welcome

The Addis Ababa newspaper Awramba Times has all but closed following the late November flight abroad of Managing Editor Dawit Kebede. It is the latest manifestation of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's well-known distaste for dissent, which appears to be grow...

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

What’s in Somalia for Ethiopia

Ethiopian troops have gone into Somalia to support the Kenyan deployment, although Prime Minister Meles Zenawi remains sceptical about the operation. Ethiopia wants to maintain its regional role and worries about its diminishing influence on Somali policy...

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Blue Nile blues

Egypt’s revolution seems to have boosted prospects for a settlement with Ethiopia over the Nile waters dispute. Cairo’s interim Prime Minister, Essam Abdel Aziz Sharaf, made a cordial visit to Addis Ababa on 16 May. The parties agreed on various joint com...

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Shouting insults

As Eritrea looks forward to serious earnings from gold, the old quarrel with Ethiopia is heating up again

  • Vol 52 No 7
  •  1st April 2011

The anti-Asmara campaign

Meles is increasing the rhetoric against his neighbour and wants the United Nations to join in action against Asmara

  • Vol 52 No 3
  •  4th February 2011

A five-year exit plan

As democracy activists pressure entrenched regimes across Africa, Premier Meles's government sets out its plans for controlled change

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

Telling the story

As the 13 May deadline for the Nile Basin Initiative Cooperative Framework looms, Egyptian efforts to stop the deal have become more apparent. The stances taken by Burundi and Congo-Kinshasa will be crucial, as the deal needs six signatures to be legally ...

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Counting on growth

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, now in his fourth consecutive term, uses his claimed economic policy prowess to counter critics

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

The new guard steps up

Just before this year’s elections, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi promised an overhaul of the party leadership. the next generation of politicians is edging up the hierarchy in the governing Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front. Leaders of the E...

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