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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

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

Amhara nationalist claims over Western Tigray are a smokescreen for ethnic cleansing

A comprehensive analysis of historical maps and records by Professor Jan Nyssen, a geographer at the University of Ghent, undermines…

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

I exposed the Axum massacre, and faced the consequences

Exclusively for Ethiopia Insight, the man who played a leading role in detailing Eritrean crimes tells his story of the…

4 years

Oromo and Amhara militants battle on western frontier

Civilians are caught in the crossfire of violence between rival political camps.

4 years