Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 As the United States repositions itself in the Horn of Africa an emboldened Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) is stepping up its struggle with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (AC Vol 67 No 6 How Abiy's march north could ignite the Horn)...

When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in February he raised questions about Ethiopia's rumoured involvement in Sudan's war and the alleged presence of a training camp for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary on Ethiopian soil...

With the mandate of Tigray's interim administration expiring Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has opted to retain the existing leadership rather than push Tigrayan allies into authority...

Might Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed use the distraction of the Gulf War to launch military action in northern Ethiopia...

At the AU summit the overwhelming concern behind closed doors was that the UAE and Israel might goad Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed into an ill-judged bid to seize Assab port on Eritrea's Red Sea coastline...

Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 With Ethiopia heading to the polls in June Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his ruling Prosperity Party radiate optimism on the economy...

This is the most significant fighting in northern Ethiopia since the 2022 Pretoria Accord between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) Tigray's dominant political force since the 1980s (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)...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed despite close ties to Israel and the UAE and his campaign for access to the Red Sea has adopted a low-profile approach...

With military victory impossible and political consensus unreachable Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government is falling back on divide and rule...