Vol 58 No 15 | ETHIOPIA Reforms stall as unrest eases 14th July 2017 The wave of revolt has run out of steam and with it the momentum for reform. Yet resentment lingers and political challenges abound Ten months into the state of emergency declared to help suppress a rash of protests across the country which claimed hundreds of lives, Ethiopia's security apparatus has the upper ...
Vol 58 No 7 | ETHIOPIA Water emergency 31st March 2017 Activists from South Omo, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia, say the government has been using the state of emergency to silence domestic crit...
Vol 58 No 2 | ETHIOPIA Development state digs in 20th January 2017 The political crisis shows no sign of abating but the opposition remains in disarray. The economic cost of the turmoil is rising The government says that it is listening to the people and is considering reform in the wake of the violence and unrest in Amhara and Oromia for much of 2016. Yet the state of emer...
Vol 57 No 24 | ETHIOPIA New faces, old tactics 2nd December 2016 The government's response to a year of protest and calls for reform is unlikely to satisfy the opposition or lead to meaningful dialogue After a year of deep political crisis, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has reshuffled his cabinet. Yet just a year since the last such moves, these signify no major change in d...
Vol 57 No 23 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Shabaab fills Ethiopian vacuum 18th November 2016 Ethiopia has been withdrawing forces from Somalia in order to help restore order at home, say military observers, and Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen has moved in to fill the va...
Vol 57 No 21 | ETHIOPIA Ruling party ploughs on 21st October 2016 No compromise with the wave of protest is in view. The elite reckons it can weather the storm The select of Ethiopia's elites, including opposition leaders, crowded into the Sheraton Addis Hotel on 15 October to discuss the country's fragile ethnic federation and stuttering...
Vol 57 No 19 | ETHIOPIA New meetings, old answers 23rd September 2016 Despite almost constant meetings of the top levels of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), there are no signs of any real policy shift over the unr...
Vol 57 No 17 | ETHIOPIA The centre holds on 26th August 2016 Cooperation between Amhara and Oromo oppositionists presents the government with one of its most serious challenges in 20 years The latest major jolt to Ethiopia's security and its ruling elites has come in the form of a protest in the north-western city of Bahir Dar, the seat of the Amhara regional governm... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 15 | ETHIOPIA Another restive region 22nd July 2016 The recent violent protests in Gondar city would not be so significant if they had happened anywhere else in the country. But Gondar is in the Amhara heartlands, and up to now Amha...
Vol 57 No 14 | ETHIOPIA Dam fine 8th July 2016 In a little-noticed action, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined the Ethiopian government for failing to observe the law regarding its fund-raising ...
