When it refused to abide by a federal decision to postpone elections due to the Covid-19 pandemic it was daring Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to bring a dissident region to heel (AC Vol 61 No 18 Regions take on the centre & Vol 61 No 23 Fears mount of all-out civil war)...
In Afar supported by Ugugumo militants they clashed with the Tigray Peace Forces (TPF) a dissident Tigray faction based in Afar and aligned with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal government...
At the centre is the United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's most influential patron which has secured influence in Ethiopia through real estate investments and military assistance...
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 Vol 67 No 8 A new axis emerges)...
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Vol 67 No 20 |
- EGYPT
- ETHIOPIA
With TPLF fighters moving along with Amhara Fano fighters into North Wollo and joint operations with Afar rebels towards the main highway between Addis Ababa and Djibouti there was a sense of a coordinated campaign against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government in Addis Ababa...
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Vol 67 No 20 |
- KENYA
- NIGERIA
That explains why despite being passed over in favour of Lamu to host the refinery Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was at the ground-breaking event along with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in whose country Dangote's cement and fertiliser operations are set to dramatically expand (Dispatches 1/9/25 Dangote to build $2...
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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...
