The power struggle has worsened in the ruling party following
the surprise success of opposition parties in May's elections
(AC Vol 46 No 11). Hardliners in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary
Democratic Front won the argument for a ruthless crackdown...
No one expected the ruling party to do so badly but it still holds
power at the centre, facing a revitalised opposition
The Coalition for Unity and Democracy appeals to Amhara nationalism,
which the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
calls chauvinism. The CUD wants to get rid of the nine large,
ethnic states and create more small ones in which the ...
Massacres near the Sudan border show the problems of ethnic
provinces - and oil
In 1984 BBC journalist Michael Buerk made a powerful television film of Ethiopia's 'biblical famine'. In an anniversary film this month, Buerk concluded things had not improved and upset even those Ethiopians who don't like Premier Meles Zenawi's go...
The United Nations Security Council will renew the mandate of the UN Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia next week but the border remains unresolved and there is concern over mounting costs (AC Vol 44 No 15). Most Eritrean opposition parties, many in Premier ...
East Africa's quarrelling brothers could be squaring up for new
confrontations over their common border
The last Ethiopian leader to visit Britain was Haile Selassie in 1972. Last month, Premier Meles Zenawi also laid a wreath on the grave of a nineteenth-century Ethiopian prince in the British royal town of Windsor. Haile Selassie's trip coincided with a d...
Prime Minister Meles is more admired abroad than in his own country
Up to 200 people reportedly died in April, when fighting broke out in eastern Ethiopia along the road to Djibouti, causing fears that fuel might run short in Addis Ababa. Lorry drivers demanded army escorts after two were killed. The shooting was between ...
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