Vol 66 No 15 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
Never short of self-belief Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faces the most serious challenge yet to his balancing of regional and national interests – Eritrean and Tigrayan leaders bitter foes since the 1990s are uniting against him (AC Vol 66 No 11 Abiy bans Tigray party risking new war)...
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Médecins Sans Frontières' conclusion that in 2021 Ethiopian troops ‘executed' three of the medical charity's employees during the fierce fighting in the northern Tigray province is likely to lead to more international condemnation of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
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The Ugandans have a poor opinion of Egyptian soldiery and Uganda is on good terms with the United Arab Emirates which does not favour an Egyptian presence in Somalia because of the disquiet it causes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia...
Dissolving the TPLF the dominant political force in northern Ethiopia from 1991-2018 by legal fiat is a high-risk tactic by the federal government under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
In doing so space opens for alternative Tigrayan figures like Getachew Reda to rise advancing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's broader project to refashion Ethiopian politics...
As Ethiopia's government grapples with insurgent forces in its Amhara Oromo and Tigray provinces and heightened tensions with neighbouring Eritrea and Somalia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his ruling Prosperity Party are talking up signs of an economic rebound ahead of the elections due in June next year...
Those who cut a deal with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed especially Getachew came under pressure from former allies saying that the negotiators betrayed Tigray by kowtowing to Addis Ababa...
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When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was greeted on the tarmac at Mogadishu airport by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on 27 February hopes were raised of a normalisation of relations after the two leaders fell out a year ago over the status of Somaliland...
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This comes amid claims that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government is close to agreeing a deal to restructure its US$28...
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One highly positive development is the accord signed in Ankara between Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud brokered personally by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in December which has calmed the crisis (AC Vol 65 No 14 Abiy Ahmed's sovereignty deal with Muse Abdi risks more regional turmoil)...
Abiy Ahmed had no real choice but to comply having been isolated by the international community on the question of the indivisibility of Somalia...
In mid-December Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan brokered a deal between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia...