Vol 38 No 25 | ETHIOPIA Rights and wrongs 19th December 1997 The government launched its long-promised human rights initiative to coincide with the 9 December visit by the United States Secretary of State. Madeleine Albright flattered the Ethiopian Peoples'...
Vol 38 No 21 | ETHIOPIA Oromo talks 24th October 1997 Talk of improved relations between the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and the main Oromo opposition party, the Oromo Liberation Front, looks overblown. On 8 October, the...
Vol 38 No 16 | ETHIOPIA Still inside 1st August 1997 In AC Vol 38 No 15, we said that Ethiopian Teachers' Association President Taye Wolde Semayat had been freed: we learn that he was released from chains but...
Vol 38 No 15 | ETHIOPIABRITAIN Aid argument 18th July 1997 The shooting by police of a teachers' leader has led to the suspension of Britain's aid programme. Ethiopia requested the move after Whitehall insisted on a public enquiry...
Vol 38 No 13 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Addis and Al Itahad 20th June 1997 Ethiopia has won another round in its war against Islamists. Somalia's main Islamist movement, Al Itahad al Islami, lost its last major bases to an Ethiopian assault on...
Vol 38 No 10 | ETHIOPIA Trumpeting the Horn 9th May 1997 Meles' alliance with Eritrea and Uganda is changing the balance of power in the region Ethiopia is once more a force to be reckoned with, as Prime Minister Meles Zenawi emerges from the shadow of his 'elder brother' President Issayas Aferworki of Eritrea....
Vol 38 No 4 | ETHIOPIA Route to the sea 14th February 1997 The government is getting nervous about Afars: their territory covers its main route to the sea and Eritrea's port of Assab. Military action in 1996 failed to break...