Competition for dwindling resources and vicious elite in-fighting threaten to send Ethiopia's melting pot up in flames.
The country is caught in a dystopian nightmare, an explosive cocktail of the 19th century and an Abyssinian Blade Runner.
Returning to the Somali region capital Jigjiga after more than a decade away was both comforting and disorienting.
Ethiopia has undergone several partial processes of modernization. It has abandoned the traditional order, but has not yet fully replaced…