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 41 No 24
  •  8th December 2000

Peace at last

Suspicion and mutual recriminations persist but a peace treaty is to be signed on 12 December.

  • Vol 41 No 13
  •  23rd June 2000

Time of reckoning

The agreement signed on 18 June in Algiers has little to recommend it to Eritrea. Only after a comprehensive peace agreement - still some way off - is the Eritrean-Ethiopian border to be demarcated, according to 'colonial treaties' and international law. ...

  • Vol 41 No 11
  •  26th May 2000

Force majeure

Ethiopia simplifies the military situation but complicates the political game

  • Vol 41 No 8
  •  14th April 2000

Guns and butter

The tragic return of famine may just help efforts to end the war with Eritrea

  • Vol 41 No 7
  •  31st March 2000

The blame game

The ruling party exploits popular pro-war sentiment in its election campaign

  • Vol 41 No 7
  •  31st March 2000

Silencing the critics

The All Amhara People's Organisation, which claims to be a national party, cannot campaign without local offices. Nearly two years ago, it formally asked Premier Meles Zenawi for leave to reopen 14 offices, closed in 1993-94. Last year, the National Elect...

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Ceasefire under threat

The OAU peace deal between Asmara and Addis Ababa is hanging by a thread as both sides rearm and turn up the war rhetoric

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Battling for Badme

Badme, taken by Eritrea in May 1998, has this year been the focus of several deadly battles. In February, Ethiopia attacked with artillery, then aircraft and tanks, then human-wave assaults. After four days and heavy losses, Ethiopia broke the Eritrean de...

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Getting DC's drift

Ethiopia is angry at what it sees as the international failure to condemn Eritrean aggression. When receiving the new United States' Ambassador to Ethiopia, Tibor Nagy, in early October, Ethiopian President Negasso Gidada pointedly noted that 'aggression ...

  • Vol 40 No 9
  •  30th April 1999

World-class war

UN envoy Mohammed Sahnoun mediates while the world ignores its biggest war

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