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. Both are ex...
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 the Afar Revolu...
Vol 37 No 20 | ETHIOPIA Heave ho 4th October 1996 President Issayas Aferworki has decided 'that the time isn't right' for Eritrea to take over Ethiopia's redundant navy. This would be seen as too provocative while Eritrea and Yeme...
Vol 37 No 19 | ETHIOPIA Hot pursuits 20th September 1996 Ethiopia is stepping up pressure on its opponents. Attacks early in August on Somalia-based Al Itahad Islamists (AC Vol 37 No 17) were followed by cross-border incursions west of H...
Vol 37 No 17 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Warning from Addis 23rd August 1996 Ethiopian forces used tanks and helicopter gunships to attack Islamist militias in three towns in Somalia – Belet-Hawa, Dolo and Lugh – on 8-9 August in an attempt to destroy bases...
Vol 37 No 15 | ETHIOPIA Café assassins 19th July 1996 Two men casually ate breakfast in an Addis Ababa café on 8 July as they waited for the highest ranking Muslim in the federal government, Transport and Communications Minister Abdul...
Vol 37 No 12 | ETHIOPIA Hands across the water 7th June 1996 Addis Ababa is becoming Washington's key ally against an expansionist Khartoum The Addis Ababa-Washington axis is in better shape than for more than 25 years, probably since the hey-days of Emperor Haile Selassie in the 1960s. For the United States, Meles Zen...
Vol 37 No 5 | ETHIOPIAUNITED STATES Voice of Babel 1st March 1996 Washington's Voice of America is to broadcast in three languages – Oromo and Tigrinya as well as Amharic – to Ethiopia in response to growing criticism from Addis Ababa about the c...
Vol 37 No 1 | ETHIOPIA Power to the provinces 5th January 1996 The regionalisation strategy is facing its biggest test this year - can it reduce poverty? Winning elections has proved easy for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his colleagues. Unsurprising, say his critics, given that the opposition is too divided to put up a credible f...
