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Former enemies unite to take on Abiy Ahmed

Eritrea and the ruling party in Tigray forge an unlikely alliance against Addis Ababa

Never short of self-belief, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faces the most serious challenge yet to his balancing of regional and national interests – Eritrean and Tigrayan leaders, bitter foes since the 1990s, are uniting against him. Hostilities between Eritrea and Tigray, their joint border runs for 1,033 kilometres, reached a peak during Ethiopia’s devastating two-year civil war. Since that conflict ended with an unstable peace accord in Pretoria in October 2022, national and regional alignments have been shifting.

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