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Vol 67 No 2

Published 23rd January 2026


Ethiopia

Abiy’s proxy war tactics reach their limit

Oppositionists make progress on a unity deal as insurgents tighten their grip on Tigray, Amhara, and Oromia

Ethiopia is trapped in a stalemate. With military victory impossible and political consensus unreachable, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government is falling back on divide and rule. The prime minister faces a widening credibility gap. On 19 January at a policy forum titled ‘Financing Ethiopia’s Future’, Abiy called for decisive action against ‘ethnic hatred, discrimination, and marginalisation’ which were holding Ethiopia back. Yet it is his policies that are widely seen as promoting divisions across the country’s regions and among its more than 135 million people.

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