After a year of sweeping macro-economic reforms – floating the birr tightening budgets and adopting an interest‑rate-based monetary policy – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has secured a third IMF review disbursement and formalised a debt accord with official creditors amid growing regional insecurity and social schisms at home...
Mamo breaks with mammon Monetary policy evolved under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed overseen in part by the outgoing central bank governor Mamo Mihretu...
Alongside the nationalist tub-thumping Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was making a serious point about climate and energy policy when he invited a group of international leaders for the opening of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile midway through the African Climate Summit hosted by Addis Ababa on 8-10 September...
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government plans to make Ethiopia a major African fertiliser producer after signing a US$2...
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The 3 September resignation of National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) Governor Mamo Mihretu – one of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's closest economic confidants – surprised bankers in Addis Ababa...
But deteriorating relations between Mogadishu and Puntland as well as the shock signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Ethiopian prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Muse Bihi on 1 January 2024 pushed Hassan Sheikh into opposing Hargeisa...
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...