Initially Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won plaudits for recasting the system inherited from his predecessor Meles Zenawi who dominated Ethiopian politics from 1991 until his death in 2012...
THE POLITICAL FALL OUT AFTER AMHARA IMPLODED Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's efforts to disarm Amhara special forces have largely failed forcing the regional government to try to govern from Addis Ababa...
In a sign of growing resistance on 21 May Eskinder Nega award-winning journalist and ex-leader of Balderas party in Addis Ababa launched the Amhara Popular Front to liberate the region and oust Abiy Ahmed...
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Pushing ahead with a pro-market reform programme as it tries to restructure its foreign debts and secure a loan from the IMF Abiy Ahmed's government is fighting on many fronts...
The harsh realities of most people's living conditions in the country contradict Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's resolute optimism that within two years the economy will be 'free from chaos and fully healthy...
In parliament last month Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed credit for reducing debt service costs to 38% of GDP this year from 59% in 2018...
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Vol 64 No 15 |
- EGYPT
- ETHIOPIA
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Cairo on the margins of the Egypt-hosted summit on the civil war in Sudan attended by neighbouring countries and the two leaders agreed to 'initiate expedited negotiations to finalise the agreement between Egypt Ethiopia and Sudan on the filling' of the dam and its operation within four months the statement said...
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While Burhan opposes IGAD's intervention and has criticised Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for calling for a no-fly zone the two generals have recognised last week's Sudan Neighbouring States Summit hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...
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And on 13 July Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is planning to host yet another regional summit to which he has invited: South Sudan's Salva Kiir; Chad's Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka'; Central African Republic's Faustin-Archange Touadéra; Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed; and Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki...
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When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power five years ago he said his mother had prophesied that he would be the seventh king of Ethiopia...
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Vol 64 No 14 |
- ETHIOPIA
- BRICS
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's application to join the BRICS economic grouping (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) looks to be mostly about political symbolism and attempting to return the country to global diplomacy after the two years of civil war...
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Then it made heavy concessions to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal government due to its military weakness (AC Vol 63 No 25 Tentative steps towards peace)...
Vol 64 No 12 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
IGAD brought Salva on as a substitute for the usual regional mediator Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who is tied up in his own country's problems...
