Less than a year after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military operation against the country’s northern Tigray province. Ethiopia is often described as the Horn of Africa’s pillar of stability and has become a hub of Chinese infrastructural and economic expansionism into Africa – but this can…
“It’s like an empire crumbling before our eyes,” is how one diplomat observing the crisis in Ethiopia was quoted as saying. There is no doubt that the historically important nation is facing a momentous threat to its existence. After two years as prime minister Abiy Ahmed has overseen the collapse of a once strong and…
Ethiopia, an African darling of the international community, is sliding towards civil war as the coronavirus pandemic hardens ethnic fault lines. The consequences of prolonged hostilities could echo across East Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Fighting between the government of Nobel Peace Prize winning Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Tigrayan nationalists in the…
The second most populous country in Africa is struggling to resolve several internal contradictions that might disastrously spell its collapse in the worst-case scenario, hence the urgent need to raise greater awareness of what’s at stake in order to inspire creative solutions that might stave off this worrying possibility. Enigmatic Ethiopia Ethiopia recently made headlines…
Disaster struck not so much with a bang, but with a trickle. At first, Ethiopia denied the very thing that 100 million Egyptians living downstream on the Nile feared – that the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir had started. On 15 July, Ethiopia’s national television broke the news, only to retract…
Ethiopia appears to be going ahead with its vow to begin filling a crucial hydroelectric dam on the Nile River after protracted negotiations with Egypt broke down earlier this week. There are grave concerns the two nations may go to war as both water-stressed countries consider their share of the world’s longest river a matter…
