As long as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed insists the delayed 2021 elections were legitimate and that any proposal to end the ruling Prosperity Party's five-year term is unconstitutional it well be hard to reach a deal...
In negotiations over the disputed Al Fashqa that straddles the Ethiopia-Sudan border Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed saw Burhan was intransigent...
Growing local suspicions of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ties with Tigray and Oromo nationalists have coalesced into a mutiny against the federal government's efforts to rein in the Amhara region's paramilitary forces...
Following the successful November peace process in South Africa between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) the Zanzibar talks due to start on 26 April with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) are another sign that Ethiopia is emerging from a period of sprawling spiralling conflict (AC Vol 63 No 22)...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been accused of meddling by the Church and of backing the dissidents...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is wary of this status and independence and had hoped to use the Oromo priests to weaken its power...
DISPATCHES
Opposition is mounting to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's plan to reintegrate the special military forces from the country's eleven regions into the national army and police service...
READ FOR FREE
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is believed instinctively to side with those opposing Muse Bihi but a military intervention is out of the question and economic sanctions could hurt Ethiopia as much as Hargeisa...
DISPATCHES
A week after his meeting with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa when he offered US$330 million in humanitarian aid to the government United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to hard diplomacy stating that armed forces on all sides of the conflict in northern Ethiopia have committed war crimes...
READ FOR FREE
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is less amenable to independence claims such as that made by Somaliland given his own deep problems with ethno-nationalism at home...
Better relations between Sudan's leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have sidelined Egypt in negotiations over the management of the dam...
Burhan and Abiy Ahmed take a personal interest in the negotiations meeting to discuss details on 5 March in Doha on the sidelines of the UN Development conference...