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Abiy and Amhara nationalism is bringing back the echoes of the Derg era and the upcoming June election is unlikely to resolve current crises; if anything, it will exacerbate them.
When he ascended to power in April 2018 Abiy Ahmed elicited goodwill inside and outside Ethiopia but the continuing humanitarian crisis in the Tigray region is losing him friends.
The Tigrayan people should not, must not, wait for one century, one year or even one more day for the world to acknowledge their plight and rescue them from obliteration.
Ethiopia is one of the earliest civilizations in the region and a crucible for the tension between ethnonationalism and modern statehood. The country combines a rich history, geostrategic issues, regional limitations and a shifting global order. and as moderator Pauline Otieno-Skaper, Musar Baba, analyst Rashid Abdi, Mr Peter Kamalingin, lawyer Kibreb Abrerra, and Rita Musachi explain, the realities facing wide swaths of the Ethiopian society have immediate interventions but no easy long term answers.
Ethiopia is one of the earliest civilizations in the region and a crucible for the tension between ethnonationalism and modern statehood. The country combines a rich history, geostrategic issues, regional limitations and a shifting global order. and as moderator Pauline Otieno-Skaper, Musar Baba, analyst Rashid Abdi, Mr Peter Kamalingin, lawyer Kibreb Abrerra, and Rita Musachi explain, the realities facing wide swaths of the Ethiopian society have immediate interventions but no easy long term answers.
The democratic recession facing the horn questions the credibility and usefulness of liberal democratic elections in the region. This has direct implications for the legitimacy of the leaders that emerge and their ability to navigate the security challenges they face. Abdullahi Boru Halakhe reflects.
The upcoming 6th general elections are yet another historic chance for Ethiopia to hold free and fair elections.
We can call the kind of intrusive donor clientelism that Cheeseman is recommending Good Governance 2.0. His advocacy for strengthening patron-client relations between western donors and African governments, and his urging that donors use crises as a way of forcing regime change and policy conditionalities, is ahistorical, counterproductive and morally indefensible.
It is not an accident that much of the narrative war is being fought on social media. Social media is fertile ground for having one sided debate. For the elites, it is a place where captured attention can be exchanged for dollars and because of it, careful analysis, and nuance—arguably the most important characteristics of intellectuals—are disincentivised.
The Oromo Liberation Front leadership views Kenya as an important player and believes that peace will come sooner if Kenya steers the talks between the Oromo and Ethiopia.
The imminent and existential danger to Ethiopia is not Abiy Ahmed and an oppressive government. It is violent ethno-nationalism.