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Vol 67 No 15

Published 24th July 2026


Ethiopia

Abiy’s constitutional gamble

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wants to use the National Dialogue to begin unpicking Ethiopia’s ethnic federation

The National Dialogue plenary session that opened on 15 July in Addis Ababa was promoted by state media with unusual intensity. This reflected less enthusiasm for the consultative exercise itself than expectations that it could become the vehicle for the most radical restructuring of the Ethiopian state since the federal order was established in the early 1990s.

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