Vol 45 No 6 | ETHIOPIA Murder in Gambella 19th March 2004 Massacres near the Sudan border show the problems of ethnic provinces - and oil In December 2003, more than 400 Anyuak people were killed in a single day in Gambella, western Ethiopia. The massacre set off a wave of other murders and...
Vol 45 No 2 | ETHIOPIA Compassion fatigue 23rd January 2004 In 1984 BBC journalist Michael Buerk made a powerful television film of Ethiopia's 'biblical famine'. In an anniversary film this month, Buerk concluded things had not improved ...
Vol 44 No 18 | ERITREAETHIOPIA War drift 12th September 2003 The United Nations Security Council will renew the mandate of the UN Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia next week but the border remains unresolved and there is concern...
Vol 44 No 15 | ETHIOPIA Boundary boobytraps 25th July 2003 East Africa's quarrelling brothers could be squaring up for new confrontations over their common border Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is fighting for his political life and his international reputation amidst growing internal dissent. The main issue remains the frontier with Eritrea, focus...
Vol 44 No 5 | ETHIOPIA Royal echoes 7th March 2003 The last Ethiopian leader to visit Britain was Haile Selassie in 1972. Last month, Premier Meles Zenawi also laid a wreath on the grave of a nineteenth-century Ethiopian...
Vol 43 No 11 | ETHIOPIA A war unwon 31st May 2002 Prime Minister Meles is more admired abroad than in his own country Premier Meles Zenawi looks distinctly fragile. Things were going pretty well after he last year successfully faced down his critics in his own Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)...
Vol 43 No 11 | ETHIOPIA Friends and neighbours 31st May 2002 Up to 200 people reportedly died in April, when fighting broke out in eastern Ethiopia along the road to Djibouti, causing fears that fuel might run short in...
Vol 43 No 8 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Missing Badme 19th April 2002 As promised, both countries have accepted the (carefully crafted) ruling by the Eritrea-Ethiopian Boundary Commission, published last weekend. Both sides want peace but the propaganda war still rages...
Vol 43 No 6 | ETHIOPIASUDAN Pals with Pal 22nd March 2002 Is southern Sudan, already burdened with enough problems of its own, becoming enmeshed in another proxy war on its border with Ethiopia? Such fears follow the arrival in...
Vol 42 No 21 | ETHIOPIA October evolution 26th October 2001 Power is shifting from party to Premier – and maybe, to the people October has been good for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. He has appointed a new President, reshuffled his cabinet, won gushing tributes from Western diplomats and donors, and turned...