Ethnic conflict

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

Oromo nationalism should cross the river of resentment

Now at the helm of national power, Oromo elites need to behave like representatives of a majority group.

4 years

Under Ethiopia’s federal system, Western Tigray belongs in Tigray

The evidence also suggests the area was majority Tigrinya speaking prior to the federal era.

4 years

Afar-Somali border dispute can be resolved peacefully

Efforts to resolve the dispute, including the 2014 agreement, have failed, and so new approaches need to be employed. 

4 years

Oromia carnage spreads to Gambella

Hundreds dead following Oromo Liberation Army and allied rebels’ attack.

4 years

Extrajudicial killings by Ethiopia’s security forces: rule or exception?

International focus on the war in northern Ethiopia has obscured state violence elsewhere.

4 years

TPLF’s ambiguous journey in Ethiopia

After initially fighting for freedom and then against it, TPLF is now back at fighting for freedom, or maybe not.

5 years

EIEP Podcast: Marginalization and persecution in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz

In this episode of the Ethiopia Insight Election Project podcast series, Juweria  Ali asks Tsegaye Birhanu, a former political science…

5 years

EIEP: Moo’ichi Paartii Badhaadhinaa, moo’atamuu Oromiyaa — fi Itoophiyaati

Xiyyeeffannoon muummicha Ministeeraa Abiy Ahmed tokkummaa ta’us, eenyummaa siyaasa Itoophiyaa fi kan Oromoo walitti araarsuu sababa dadhabeef, waadaa seene sanaaf…

5 years