Ethiopia

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

Uncertainty in the Horn as a wary Eritrea seeks new alliances

President Isaias Afwerki's recent statements suggest concerns about PM Abiy Ahmed’s deal with the TPLF, driving him to seek new…

3 years

TPLF cannot be allowed to monopolize Tigray’s interim government

By attempting to shut opposition parties and independent voices out of the interim regional administration, TPLF officials are showing that…

3 years

Internal tensions could destabilize Tigray’s transition

Unless a compromise is found, tensions between the TPLF and opposition parties may destabilize Tigray’s post-war transition.

3 years

A rift in Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has been healed, but tensions remain

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church appears to have resolved a month-long schism that sparked deadly clashes after a rival synod…

3 years

With Tigray at a crossroads, Tigrayans need to talk

TPLF, opposition parties, the media, civil society, and scholars in Tigray must sincerely enter into inclusive dialogue to create a…

3 years

In federal Ethiopia’s diverse South West, it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee

Neither top-down administrative restructuring nor identity-based autonomy demands are likely to bring peace, democracy, and development to a forgotten corner…

4 years

Ethiopian nation-building is haunted by its troubled history

Discriminatory and exclusionary policies continue to disenfranchise ethnic groups in the state’s periphery.

4 years