When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power five years ago, he said his mother had prophesied that he would be the seventh king of Ethiopia. Many were puzzled by this claim. Haile...

Eight months after signing a peace accord with the federal government, Tigray's leaders face a new set of economic and political tests, not least whether their political organisati...

The federal government and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) pushed maximalist positions on disarmament and devolution respectively in the first round of their peace talks in Zanziba...

Growing local suspicions of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ties with Tigray and Oromo nationalists have coalesced into a mutiny against the federal government's efforts to rein in the...

Following the successful November peace process in South Africa between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the Zanzibar talks d...

A religious division that threatened to deepen the ethno-nationalist conflicts already threatening the federation began in January and has been waxing and waning, with more arrests...

Egypt, a key player in the Nile Basin, is watching with alarm as the recent rapprochement between Sudan and Ethiopia undercuts its leverage over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...