Ethiopia
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What African Elections Can Learn from the BOORANA GADAA SYSTEM
A Democracy Older Than the Ballot Box Every election season, much of East Africa braces itself. Incumbents amend constitutions to erase term limits, and ... -
Ethiopia’s Foretold War Arrives
No one can claim that a return to war in Tigray and northern Ethiopia is a surprise, but it makes it no less horrifying. ... -
Breaking the Pretoria Architecture: How Ethiopia’s Fragmented Wars Converged into a Single Existential Threat
When the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was signed in November 2022, international observers prematurely celebrated the end of one of this century’s most ... -
The Rivalry Between Ethiopia and Eritrea Is Reshaping Tigray
On 1 August 2026, Ethiopian federal and Tigrayan forces clashed in western Tigray, a northern Ethiopian region bordering Eritrea and Sudan. By 3 August, ... -
Ethiopia Counts Coffee at the Wrong End
On July 7, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told Parliament that Ethiopia had earned a record $3.1 billion from coffee exports. Six days later, the ... -
Why Ethiopia’s Conflicts Keep Returning: The Question Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Cannot Avoid
As Ethiopia’s National Dialogue seeks to chart a path toward peace, it faces an immense task. The Dialogue aims to address some of the ... -
Two Presidents, No Government: Why Tigray’s War Is Coming Back
In Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, two men call themselves president. One is Lieutenant General Tadesse Worede, appointed with Addis Ababa’s ... -
Tigray’s Lost Classrooms: Why Education Must Be at the Centre of Recovery
The war in Tigray did not only destroy lives, homes, hospitals and livelihoods. It also attacked the foundations of the region’s future by depriving ... -
Will Abiy Ahmed be Ethiopia’s Bismarck or its Mandela?
Africa has long served as fertile ground for distinctive forms of leadership to emerge. Figures such as Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, and ... -
The Man Who Refused to Be Silenced
The first time my father was taken to prison, I was a toddler and did not know what prison was. When I asked where ...
