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...
Vol 59 No 9 | ETHIOPIA Abiy tests the military 4th May 2018 The Prime Minister's first cabinet rewards allies and begins to take on the securocrats' power in politics and the economy Building on an assertive start, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has revealed more about his leadership style with an aggressive set of federal government appointments. Although hardly un...
Vol 59 No 9 | ETHIOPIAMOROCCO Who wants to see a billionaire? 4th May 2018 Viewed from the Casablanca commercial courtroom where the bankruptcy and mothballing of his Société Anonyme Marocaine de l'Industrie du Raffinage (Samir) refinery company has been...
Vol 59 No 8 | ETHIOPIA Abiy goes goodwill hunting 20th April 2018 After two weeks in office, new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has produced little policy detail, let alone tangible achievements, but the choice of destinations to launch his premiershi...
Vol 59 No 7 | ETHIOPIA Abiy makes a promising start 6th April 2018 Expectations are high that the youthful new Oromo Prime Minister can be a unifying force. He's even trying to reconcile with Eritrea The ruling party took a promising step towards greater stability when it elected Abiy Ahmed, the head of its Oromia wing, as its new Chairperson and Prime Minister on 27 March.
Vol 59 No 5 | ETHIOPIA Oromia on a knife edge 9th March 2018 A bid by some in the ruling coalition to appoint an Oromo prime minister faces deep-seated opposition The national crisis has entered an even more dangerous phase after a disputed parliamentary vote triggered another strike in Oromia, amid opposition concerns that the ruling party ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 59 No 4 | ETHIOPIA The edifice cracks 23rd February 2018 First a concession, then a crackdown. The ruling party's divisions over how to respond to growing revolt are on show After the most tumultuous week in Ethiopian politics for years, which included the resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, hardliners appear to be reasserting themselve... READ FOR FREE
Vol 59 No 1 | ETHIOPIA Trouble in the engine room 12th January 2018 The biggest threats to the successes of the 'developmental state' are the growing challenges to the ruling party's legitimacy The most worrying thing about the chaos towards the end of the year in Ethiopia was just how commonplace it seemed – a clear indication that the engine room of the Horn of Africa i...
