Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Population: 88.9 mn.
GDP: 41.9 bn.
Debt: 7.1 bn.
Overview:

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn will face a critical year of transition with a party vote in February to pick the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front election team for 2015. He will have to establish his technocratic style. Protests by Muslim groups and unrest in the Ogaden may provide flashpoints.

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  • Vol 46 No 22
  •  4th November 2005

Breaking point, again

There may be some diplomatic method in Asmara's apparent madness

  • Vol 46 No 18
  •  9th September 2005

Euro-observations

Relations with the European Union are cooling sharply. EU election observers roundly criticised the 15 May general elections, infuriating Premier Meles Zenawi. The head of the EU Election Observation Mission (EOM), Ana Gomes, said on 25 August, just befor...

  • Vol 46 No 16
  •  5th August 2005

Trying talks

After the disputed elections, government and opposition edge warily towards an accommodation

  • Vol 46 No 13
  •  24th June 2005

Post-election massacre

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 on...

  • Vol 46 No 11
  •  27th May 2005

The big upset

No one expected the ruling party to do so badly but it still holds power at the centre, facing a revitalised opposition

  • Vol 46 No 11
  •  27th May 2005

The ethnic factor

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 wid...

  • Vol 45 No 6
  •  19th March 2004

Murder in Gambella

Massacres near the Sudan border show the problems of ethnic provinces - and oil

  • Vol 45 No 2
  •  23rd January 2004

Compassion fatigue

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...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  •  12th September 2003

War drift

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 ...

  • Vol 44 No 15
  •  25th July 2003

Boundary boobytraps

East Africa's quarrelling brothers could be squaring up for new confrontations over their common border

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