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Vol 60 No 13

Published 28th June 2019


Ethiopia

The politics behind the putsch

The most serious attack so far on Abiy Ahmed’s premiership signals how difficult his reforms will be to achieve

It was a deadly coup de thêatre. The simultaneous slaying of the premier of the Amhara regional state, the second most populous in the federation, and the Defence Force Chief of Staff on 22 June was a broadside against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the federal government.

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