Vol 59 No 17 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Abiy dials down Pax Ethiopia 10th August 2018 Addis's relations with its neighbours may be changing as radically as those on the domestic front. A new deal with Somalia could be in the offing As soon as he was appointed Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed was as eager to embrace peace and normalisation with neighbouring states as to reform the regime at home. Somalia, bristling ...
Vol 59 No 16 | ETHIOPIA A flood of rumours 10th August 2018 The death of the great dam’s chief engineer sees an outpouring of grief as regional reactions to Abiy’s radical initiatives gather speed For many Ethiopians, dam engineer Simegnew Bekele was the embodiment of their aspirations for a better future, which explains the widespread shock when he was discovered shot dead ...
Vol 59 No 15 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Question on Oromo peace 27th July 2018 What to do about the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and how powerful the rebel faction is, are among the most important 'known unknowns' as the political landscape takes shape follow...
Vol 59 No 14 | ERITREAETHIOPIA From the edge of war to the bridge of love 13th July 2018 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has topped off weeks of revolutionary change by triumphantly making peace with Eritrea The Ethiopian leader's previously inconceivable trip to Asmara on a mission of reconciliation on 8 July has reshaped regional geopolitics and crowned Abiy Ahmed's premiership with ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 59 No 13 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA A proconsul retires 29th June 2018 The leading representative of the Ethiopian security services in Somalia, Colonel Gebregziabher Alemseged, better known in Somalia as Colonel Gebre, has been recalled. Since 2002 C...
Vol 59 No 13 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Abiy scores – so far 29th June 2018 An Eritrean Government delegation arrived in Addis Ababa on 26 June in response to the Ethiopian ruling coalition's latest peace initiative. The dispatch of the fact-finding missio...
Vol 59 No 12 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Pushback peril for Abiy 15th June 2018 Addis’s radical offer to implement the UN’s ruling on the border is meeting resistance at home and silence in Asmara The Ethiopian government's announcement that it was ready to implement the 2002 border ruling to try and resolve the freeze in relations with Eritrea has met with worrying silence ...
Vol 59 No 12 | ERITREAETHIOPIA A radical bid for peace and economic change 8th June 2018 Abiy Ahmed will need strong backing from the party as well as his new security chiefs to make his new policies work A credible offer to end the war with Eritrea and the opening up of state companies to private capital are Ethiopia's biggest strategic shifts in over a decade. Premier Abiy Ahmed's...
Vol 59 No 11 | ETHIOPIA All things to all factions 1st June 2018 The new premier plays a clever game of balancing competing interests – but bringing the corrupt to book is not on the agenda Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been boosting his reputation as a crowd-pleaser with government actions which have delighted a Saudi tycoon, youthful demonstrators, opposition leader...
Vol 59 No 10 | ETHIOPIASAUDI ARABIA Gold fever 18th May 2018 The ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's favourite billionaire, the Ethiopian-Saudi Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi, seems to have disappeared from favour in Addis...
