Meles Zenawi

Tigray’s squabbling leaders should honor Meles’ legacy

BACK OUR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM! Petty differences should be set aside in the long-term interests of Tigray and its people On…

2 years

Ethiopia’s Nile dam was Meles’ endeavor, not Haile Selassie’s

There have been efforts recently to politicize who gets credit for planning GERD.

4 years

Contextualizing an Ethiopian “terrorist” organization

Despite the government’s vilification of the TPLF to justify the war in Tigray, the party’s role in Ethiopia’s recent stability…

5 years

Ethiopia’s treacherous transition

Ethiopia’s deep-rooted divisions, and a Machiavellian alliance, have opened the gates of hell in Tigray.

5 years

A moral dilemma for Ethiopia’s Professor Andreas Eshete

Despite the philosopher's undoubted talents and achievements, his staunch support for ethnic federalism is a stain on his career.

6 years

Beyond ethnic federalism

Ethnic federalism is inherently flawed as it drags most political and economic debates down to the level of ethnicity. Ethiopia…

7 years

Liberal democracy is no liberator

Liberal democracy will not liberate Ethiopian nationalities still struggling for recognition, and nor will it free the country from poverty.

7 years

From Meles’ ‘Dead End’ to Abiy’s ‘New Horizon’

After authoritarian development hit the rocks, Ethiopia needs a concerted democratic approach to escaping poverty. But freedom has its own…

7 years

Abiy must weave together multiple plot lines

Beneath the latest neat international narrative of a democratizing Ethiopia lies a ruthless struggle among competing domestic plotlines.

7 years