Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Kenya's President William Ruto have secured a raft of financing deals from their close ties to the UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan (MBZ) who is determined to increase Abu Dhabi influence in the region pitting his US and Israeli-backed axis against Turkey and Saudi Arabia (Dispatches 19/1/26 Mogadishu expels Emirati companies over their secessionist ties)...
ETHIOPIAPrime Minister Abiy Ahmed wants to protect Ethiopia's national AI sovereignty by building a national data cloud but the country's data centre capacity lags behind regional technology rivals...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has suspended artisanal and industrial mining and exports of tantalum until it has established local refining operations...
In a Facebook post before the conference Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed described it as ‘a new chapter of history which fully decides ours and the next generation's fate and aspirations'...
The change is reflected in the declining influence of figures such as Eskinder Nega whose politics remain rooted in Ethiopianism and the rise of Zemene's more assertive nationalism (AC Vol 64 No 17 The avalanche catches up with Abiy Ahmed)...
When the Tigray regional authorities were locked in a devastating war with Ethiopia's federal government between 2020 and 2022 Getachew Reda was a senior Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) figure who accused Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of presiding over a genocide...
Ethiopian state media recite Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's observation that ‘It is better to negotiate for 20 years than fight for two years...
Abu Dhabi has pressured Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to provide the RSF with a safe haven in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region from which to intensify drone and missile attacks on Sudan's Blue Nile region (AC Vol 67 No 8 A new axis emerges)...
Lengthy queues formed before the polling stations opened at six in the morning on 1 June in national elections that are expected to produce an overwhelming majority for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party...
Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 As the United States repositions itself in the Horn of Africa an emboldened Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) is stepping up its struggle with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (AC Vol 67 No 6 How Abiy's march north could ignite the Horn)...
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in February he raised questions about Ethiopia's rumoured involvement in Sudan's war and the alleged presence of a training camp for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary on Ethiopian soil...
