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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 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

Losing the plot

The arrest of 35 members of Ginbot 7 on 24 April, accused of plotting a coup against Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government, increases the pressure on opposition groups ahead of parliamentary elections in May 2010. The arrests by the National Intelligen...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Good-bye, maybe

Ethiopia's troops are gone and another transitional government is installed but the new order is tenuous

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Pirates and the lads

Mercenaries, the media and worried looking men in suits are much exercised by the escalating operations of the Somali pirates patrolling the Gulf of Aden in search of booty. In fact, the pirates stepped up operations a year ago (AC Vol 49 No 15), but then...

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 2008

Bristling border

The United Nations has given up, the parties will not talk and the troops are face to face

  • Vol 49 No 7
  •  28th March 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 alon...

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 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
  •  5th October 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 the e...

  • Vol 48 No 19
  •  21st September 2007

The Ogaden's trickling sands

The Ogaden's bloody struggle has a wider global dimension

  • Vol 48 No 19
  •  21st September 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
  •  3rd August 2007

The Millennium deal

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

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