Judging by the declarations of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Amhara regional government Addis Ababa wants to use its federal might to step up recruitment to the Ethiopian National Defence Forces and at the same time draw in regional forces to encircle Tigray...
Initially after Beshir's fall officials around Hamdok had been closer to Ethiopia whose Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had offered to intercede between Sudan's generals and civilian activists demanding radical change...
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There was scarcely a celebratory party to mark the sweeping wins of Premier Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party across the country...
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Under growing pressure at home and abroad over the latest losses in the fighting in Tigray Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appears to prefer to play the nationalist card over the future of the dam and sideline mediation attempts (Vol 61 No 14 The pride of lions)...
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It was meant to be a landmark election a critical stage in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's proclaimed agenda for democratic transition after decades of authoritarian rule...
In full denial In the run-up to national elections on 21 June Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched another 'final' offensive in Tigray his third so far...
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Regional officials and diplomats are urging Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government to launch talks with its opponents in Tigray three days after it pulled federal troops out of the regional capital Mekelle...
Just after dawn on 28 June Tigrayan forces marched into Mekelle the regional capital to cheers from its citizens changing the course of the eight-month war with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and shaking up national politics...
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Politicians across the spectrum agree that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party (PP) will win a substantial majority of the 547 seats in parliament in the national elections on 21 June...
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The conclusions of internal UN documents that over 350 000 people in the Tigray region are starving amid 'catastrophic conditions' after seven months of fighting between federal forces and Tigrayan People's Liberation Front rebels has prompted the sternest rebuke of Abiy Ahmed's government yet by international leaders (AC Vol 62 No 11 Not so splendid isolation)...
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As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government complains about United States 'interference' in the Tigray conflict there are signs that Washington's stance has caused some governments especially the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to moderate their support for Addis Ababa's war strategy (AC Vol 62 No 11 Not so splendid isolation)...
Mohammed Dahlan senior advisor to the UAE's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan aka MBZ has been seen in Eritrea in recent years and in Addis Ababa in the company of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is running out of room to manoeuvre as Addis Ababa's relations with the United States and Europe fall to their lowest ebb for three decades...
