President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' flew to Addis Ababa on 3 October to attend the swearing-in of Abiy Ahmed as prime minister for another five years hoping that the Ethiopian leader could help him with his domestic problems sources in Mogadishu told Africa Confidential...
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A month after a second round of parliamentary elections confirmed the Prosperity Party's landslide victory in June Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has launched a new offensive against the Tigray People's Liberation Front...
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A former health and foreign minister in Ethiopia Tedros has been disowned by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government in Addis Ababa...
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Opening the country's telecoms sector is at the heart of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's plans backed by the World Bank's private sector affiliate the International Finance Corporation to start liberalising Ethiopia's state-controlled economy...
Should Abiy's government liberalise its banking regulations Safaricom would be well placed to grab a second and potentially larger market (AC Dispatches 14/05/21 Abiy Ahmed's government may rethink its telecoms reforms amid market jitters on security)...
EscalationThe escalation of fighting followed Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's call on 10 August to mobilise all patriotic Ethiopians to defeat the rebels in Tigray...
One of their concerns was that the public support and demonstrations for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's national mobilisation campaign had not translated into more effective military...
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TPLF spokesperson Getachew Reda immediately denounced the appointment saying it would be 'naive to expect this mission to work' because of the AU's inherent bias towards Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (AC Vol 62 No 15 No good options on the table)...
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The Oromo Liberation Army a militant breakaway group says it is in talks with the Tigray People's Liberation Front to create a military and political alliance aimed at defeating Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Prosperity Party government in Addis Ababa...
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Nationalist moodTo the thousands of supporters of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed thronging Meskel Square in central Addis Ababa on 22 July there was no question that his government's army would soon inflict a devastating defeat on the TDF...
Diplomacy guns and ethnicity The United States is leading the charge on cutting aid to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government pressing it to abandon any attempt to blockade Tigray...
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has shown no sign of acceding to any of those conditions...
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As fighting was spreading eastwards to Afar Region on 18 July Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared a total war on the Tigray People's Liberation Front bringing in soldiers from most of the country's 10 regions to boost the federal forces' ailing campaign...
A Prosperity Party landslide foretold Under the shadow of what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed now calls a national war against Tigray the outcome of the national elections on 21 June seems far less consequential and not in the least surprising...
