Columnists
The Prosperity Party is a threat to multinational federalism
Ethiopia is in the throes of a dreadful civil war. It is a culmination of more than two years of pissing-match between Prime ...
Columnists
Lij “Abiyot”, and a new era of the princes?
The tumultuous history of Ethiopia is full of enigmatic and ruinous leaders. But one, in particular, stands out for what the scholar Harold ...
Analysis
Civil War in Ethiopia: Who, what, why?
Ethiopia’s Nobel Laureate Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has launched a military operation and declared a state of emergency in the northern state ...
Analysis
What we know so far about the Abiy-TPLF war in Tigray
Most Ethiopians were asleep when at about 2 a.m. local time Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that he had ordered military action against ...
Columnists
The Jawar Mohammed I know
In September, Ethiopia charged prominent politician Jawar Mohammed and 24 other Oromo activists with terrorism. The charges, famously announced by the Attorney General’s ...
Columnists
Abiy Ahmed’s campaign against Oromo: a new Red Terror?
‘Oromia is a slaughterhouse now’ was how Teshale Abera, former president of Oromia Supreme Court, described the carnage in Wallaga, Arsi, and Hararge ...
Analysis
Oromo artists refuse to be silenced
On October 8, YouTube terminated Raya Studio, one of the most popular Oromo music production houses and an archival channel with hundreds of ...
Analysis
Ethiopia’s banknotes change a mask for political crisis
In a September surprise, the Ethiopian government unveiled new currency notes. The change, the first in 23 years, has been the subject of ...
Analysis
Prosperity “Federalism”?
In late 2019, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dissolved the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and merged three of the four ethnic-based parties ...
