In 2022 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed shocked his Eritrean and Amhara allies by striking a deal with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) (Dispatches 24/10/22 Federal and Tigrayan leaders open talks in South Africa AC Vol 63 No 22 Addis Ababa and Tigray sign an uneasy truce &Vol 63 No 25 Tentative steps towards peace)...

Addis having once threatened intervention now faced the prospect of a TPLF–Eritrea alliance with Fano militants poised to join (AC Vol 66 No 15 Former enemies unite to take on Abiy Ahmed)...

After a year of sweeping macro-economic reforms – floating the birr tightening budgets and adopting an interest‑rate-based monetary policy – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has secured a third IMF review disbursement and formalised a debt accord with official creditors amid growing regional insecurity and social schisms at home...

Mamo breaks with mammon Monetary policy evolved under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed overseen in part by the outgoing central bank governor Mamo Mihretu...

Another concern for El Sisi is the Nile and the ambiguous position taken by President Trump and some of his advisors on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government in Addis Ababa...

Alongside the nationalist tub-thumping Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was making a serious point about climate and energy policy when he invited a group of international leaders for the opening of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile midway through the African Climate Summit hosted by Addis Ababa on 8-10 September...

The 3 September resignation of National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) Governor Mamo Mihretu – one of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's closest economic confidants – surprised bankers in Addis Ababa...

But deteriorating relations between Mogadishu and Puntland as well as the shock signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Ethiopian prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Muse Bihi on 1 January 2024 pushed Hassan Sheikh into opposing Hargeisa...

Never short of self-belief Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faces the most serious challenge yet to his balancing of regional and national interests – Eritrean and Tigrayan leaders bitter foes since the 1990s are uniting against him (AC Vol 66 No 11 Abiy bans Tigray party risking new war)...

The Ugandans have a poor opinion of Egyptian soldiery and Uganda is on good terms with the United Arab Emirates which does not favour an Egyptian presence in Somalia because of the disquiet it causes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia...