Amhara

Mending Fences: Addressing Ethiopia’s Internal Land Disputes

This article is part of the Analytical Reporting to Improve the Federation (ARIF) project n late November 2024, yet another…

12 months

Persecuted Amharas have nowhere left to flee to

Ethiopia’s failure to institute an effective system of protection and representation for intra-state minorities is a key driver of the…

2 years

Amharas turning on Abiy are short of Ethiopian allies

YOUR SUPPORT IS VITAL FOR OUR WORK Ethiopianist politics is being upended by increasing Amhara mistrust of federal intentions. urmoil…

3 years

Justice for atrocity victims in Ethiopia is a pipedream

Ethiopia’s proposed national transitional justice mechanism cannot succeed in bringing about justice to victims, but any international process faces massive…

3 years

As Ethiopian alliances shift, Abiy’s anniversary met by Amhara protests and violence

Federal-Amhara clash reflects Oromo-Amhara political friction five years after the Prime Minister took office on the back of their alliance.

3 years

Deadly Adwa day shows Abiy’s struggle to shift focus from divisive Ethiopian emperor

Ethiopia’s socio-political tensions bubble over again in raging annual debate over external and internal colonialism.

3 years

Minority rights dilemma exemplifies Ethiopia’s brutal identity crisis

Ethiopia’s ethnofederal system was designed to counter coercive homogenization, but, as in the former Yugoslavia, it left minorities tragically exposed…

3 years

Many hurdles to peace in Tigray remain after Pretoria and Nairobi deals

The peace agreements are not a total capitulation by Tigray’s leaders, but it’s clear federal authorities are in the driver’s…

4 years

The battle of narratives around the war in Tigray

A close observer of Addis Abeba diplomatic circles writes that truth has been one of the victims of the conflict…

4 years