Columnists
Ethiopia’s sham election and the folly of western support
On 21 June 2021, millions of Ethiopians queued and voted in a shambolic election with a predetermined outcome. The ruling elite, its supporters, ...
Columnists
The National Bank of Ethiopia should apologize for its role in the Tigray war
In November 2020, a few days after the Ethiopian National Defense Force launched armed hostility in Tigray, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) ...
Ethiopia
To mend relations with the U.S., Addis Ababa must end hostilities in Tigray and launch dialogue
The worsening humanitarian tragedy in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now in its seventh month. Fighting between the Ethiopian National Defence Force and the ...
Columnists
A dangerous Amhara prophecy is roiling Ethiopia
A video of some Amhara elite groups meeting to inaugurate “the Amhara Manifesto” was leaked on social media recently. The meeting was attended ...
Columnists
The return and resurgence of an imperialist Amhara nationalism
In a grisly massacre captured on camera last month, a mob in Shawa Robit drags wounded victims out of a visibly marked emergency ...
Columnists
Abiy Ahmed’s missteps may unravel the Horn of Africa
After months of embarrassing equivocation and bold-faced denials, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed last week gave in to western pressure and acknowledged the ...
Ethiopia
Why is Ethiopia still humiliating its Muslim population?
I should be writing about the senseless civil war in Tigray; a looming fracture within the ruling Prosperity Party (PP) that is likely ...
Columnists
Elections, conflict, and creeping autocracy in Ethiopia
Ethiopians will go to the polls in June 2021 in a vote that is sure to plunge the Horn of Africa country into ...
Columnists
Hindering or Birthing Democracy: The West’s Legacy in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is in an imminent border war with the Sudan. Tensions with Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) are ...
Columnists
How a Nobel Laureate lost his reputation and disgraced Ethiopia
I was driving home from work while listening to National Public Radio when I heard the announcement: “The Nobel Peace Prize committee has ...
