Source: Quartz Africa February 3, 2020 By Mulugeta G Berhe (PhD) Senior Fellow, World Peace Foundation, Fletcher School of Law and…
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The anatomy of Ethiopia’s mismanaged transition
Source: Addis Standard Addis Abeba, December 05/2019 – In his Selections from Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci famously wrote in 1930: “The crisis…
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Ethiopia’s political rift widens
Since coming to power in April 2018, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia has been praised for his wide-ranging liberalising reforms. In…
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Ethiopia: An independent Tigray?
According to BBC Tigrinya, Weyn, the official voice of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), recommended that Tigray, the state in the north of Ethiopia,…
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What options for Ethiopia’s PM Abiy?
Opinion: Putting Humpty Dumpty together again: The restoration of EPRDF? addisstandard / March 26, 2019 / 2.7k Source: Addis Standard…
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The people did not struggle for a reformed EPRDF
Source: Ethiopia Insight March 7, 2019 by Zekarias Ezra The Ethiopian people’s struggle is for the establishment of a truly…
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A Race to the Bottom: Ethiopia’s Accelerating Crisis
Source: Transformation index, BTI January 05, 2018 / Awol Kassim Allo An economy in free fall, ever-deepening repression, a deteriorating…
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TPLF hegemony has ended, but EPRDF power struggle is just beginning
January 9, 2019 by Mastewal Dessalew When regional powers battled for control of the kingdom in the 18th and 19th…
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Ethiopia: Hailemariam Deselegn resigns as Oromo and Amhara demand greater voice
Source: Financial Times Ethiopia’s prime minister resigned on Thursday in a sign of growing division in the country’s leadership after…
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“Ethiopia Is Falling Apart”
Tepid reforms and halfhearted concessions won’t save the country’s authoritarian government from its existential crisis By Mohammed Ademo, Jeffrey Smith…
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