The Ethiopia of Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party, is a dark and frightening place, where anyone challenging the government are at risk of violence and arrest.
The Hidden Genocide in Ethiopia
Independent Analysis
Ras Makonnen Wolde Mikael Wolde Melekot.
Correction: March 2024 - This article was first published in August 2022 with the wrong name, Gudisa.
Unveiling the Unspoken: The Untold Story of the Pretoria Peace Deal’s Inevitable Demise
In the grand theater of Ethiopian politics, there are several moments when the script reads like a comedy of errors rather than a tale of triumph.
IMF Ethiopia Loan Must Be Conditioned On Immediate Reforms
In the coming weeks, top bankers with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are slated to fly to Ethiopia for critical meetings. The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has asked for billions of dollars in aid to keep his strife-riven country afloat.
I Said the Era of Famines Might Be Ending. I Was Wrong.
Nearly eight years ago I wrote an essay for New York Times Opinion asking whether the world had finally moved beyond the peril of large-scale famines. My answer was that it might very well have.
Is Ethiopia a Failed State?
As it stands, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Ethiopian state are both severely compromised. Constitutionally, the ethnic states constituting the Ethiopian Federation behave as if they were sovereign and in some cases vehemently contest the political arrangement that allows them to exist: that is to say, the federal state itself.
The World Must Respond To Ethiopia’s Merawi Massacre
It has taken three weeks, but the world is slowly confirming the details and coming to grips with a shocking atrocity in Africa’s second most populous nation.
Is Abiy Ahmed the Most Dangerous Man in Africa?
