ETHIOPIA'S FEDERATION UNDER THREAT: Conflict resumes between Addis Ababa and Tigray region THE ETHIOPIAN PEOPLES' FORCES ALLIANCE FOR SURVIVAL (EPFAS) The members of this alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party government in Addis Ababa currently include seven military organisations: The Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) Amhara Fano National Movement (AFNM) Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (Ugugumo) Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Benishangul Peoples' Liberation Movement Gumuz Peoples' Democratic Movement The clashes which broke out on 23 September in Tigray are the fiercest since the TPLF signed the Pretoria accord with the federal forces in November 2022...
Emirati support for ENDFThe strongest regional backer of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed the United Arab Emirates has been supplying weapons and technical services including drones and drone operators to ENDF since 2022 (AC 67 No 8 A new axis emerges)...
Dangote also wants to sell a stake in his fertiliser business scale up production at his Lagos plant to 6m tonnes a year and expand output in Ethiopia whose Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expressed interest in an equity stake in the Lamu refinery...
That reinforced the SAF's enmity with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
These dilemmas compound broader security problems for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government which has suffered multiple setbacks in its struggles to contain Fano and to a lesser extent the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA)...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has approved a nationwide prayer in Protestant churches to help overcome the ‘grave challenge' confronting his administration sources told Africa Confidential...
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...
