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Djibouti stands to lose from closer ties between Eritrea and Ethiopia under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed but the country has little choice...
Within hours of Guelleh's victory announcement Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' sent congratulations (AC Vol 52 No 5 Stirring the regional pot)...
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In the Horn it has drifted into a cold war with Abiy Ahmed's Ethiopia and locked horns with Somalia's Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed 'Farmajo' over a long-standing maritime boundary dispute which further complicates increasingly hostile relations (AC Vol 61 No 25 Farmajo breaks with Nairobi)...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has finally if grudgingly admitted to Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives on what everybody has known for months: Eritrean troops are operating across Tigray...
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International pressure seems to have prompted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to declare on 26 March that Eritrean troops will withdraw from the Tigray region after reports of their involvement in serial atrocities against civilians...
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After toughening its language in recent weeks the United States government is despatching Senator Chris Coons to meet Abiy Ahmed and African Union officials in Addis Ababa to discuss what Washington sees as worsening regional security crisis...
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is fending off all pleas for mediation and accountability for human rights abuses committed during his campaign to defeat the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF)...
Abiy's tussle with Brussels Ethiopia's anger with foreign commentary on the Tigray situation turned to fury after Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto briefed European Union ministers on 22 February that the crisis in Tigray region was 'out of control' and that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government was 'in denial' about the scale of the humanitarian crisis there...
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Abiy Ahmed's government is increasingly embattled as criticism grows from the European Union and wider international system about the humanitarian emergency in Tigray as fighting continues for a fourth month between government forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (AC Vol 61 No 24 War resets the region)...
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Ahead of Somalia's indirect presidential elections Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' needs the support of Premier Abiy Ahmed and there have been talks about security arrangements outside the ambit of the AU operation...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Initiatives by Mahamat and Ramaphosa to mediate in the conflict between the Addis Ababa and Tigray region were swiftly sidelined by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
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Vol 62 No 2 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SUDAN
Until Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's 'law enforcement operation' against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) the status of al Fashqa was not an issue at meetings of the Joint Border Development Commission (JBDC) established in 2000 (AC Vol 62 No 1 Abiy's search for legitimacy)...
Tigray's war in the shadows Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's announcement on 28 November that his 'law enforcement operation' in Tigray had ended successfully was clearly premature despite the substantial involvement of the Eritrean army...
