In Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed having won a pyrrhic victory against the Tigray region is increasingly in thrall to the UAE for cash and diplomatic heft as his government faces growing threats in the Amhara and Oromo regions (AC Vol 65 No 1 Reality catches up with gambler Abiy)...

On 3 April Dani travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) passing through Addis Ababa where his ministers met officials to 'strengthen links' with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government...

Abiy wants to fix the port debacle but quietly Signals from Addis Ababa hint that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed may be regretting the furore caused by his apparent swap of recognition for Somaliland's independence for access to coastline on which to build a port (AC Vol 65 No 2 Why Abiy and Muse signed a 'memorandum of misunderstanding')...

Ethiopia's Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed signed a series of trade-related MoUs during his late February visit to Nairobi...

Almost six years since taking office Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presides over an economy that falls far short of the grand ambitions set forth in the 2019 Homegrown Economic Reform Programme...

Three years after Ethiopia officially requested relief under the G20-backed Common Framework for debt treatments beyond the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's administration is still moving slowly towards agreement with its creditors...

The AFUC is one of the Amhara nationalist militias who have taken up arms against the federal government in Addis Ababa demanding a greater devolution of power from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal government in Addis Ababa (AC Vol 65 No 1 Reality catches up with gambler Abiy)...

Yet audio and video forensic experts have said that the recording was fake (AC Vol 64 No 17 The avalanche catches up with Abiy Ahmed)...

The fall-out that triggered the exit of long-serving Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen is another sign of the widening gap between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his former associates from Amhara; and more broadly between the Amhara political establishment and its counterparts in Oromia...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is clearly more aligned with Hemeti than Burhan not least because of the latter's Egyptian support...

By announcing a trade-off on New Year's Day – putative recognition of Somaliland's 'independence' in exchange for access to the Gulf of Aden – Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Somaliland counterpart Muse Bihi Abdi have united the region against them ramping up tensions at a highly volatile time...

Abiy Ahmed was calculating that access to the sea would allow him to save money (AC Vol 64 No 16 Abiy ploughs on as economy staggers)...

What about the corridor to the Ethiopian border mentioned by Abiy Ahmed and his National Security Affairs Advisor Redwan Hussein...

After trying to maintain good relations with Muse Bihi Abdi and Abiy Ahmed it seems that Hassan Sheikh felt stabbed in the back...

It's yet to speak publicly on the deal but it has strongly supported Abiy Ahmed in other areas; helping with weapons when the federal forces were losing ground in the war against Tigray...