Beginning on November 3th, 2020, the Special Forces and militias of the Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia, the entire army (some eighteen divisions) of the Ethiopian Defence Forces (EDF), some twenty divisions of the Eritrean Defence Forces, a detachment of several...
The Ethiopian regime is by far the biggest source of a concerted and well-financed disinformation campaign. The war in Tigray heightened the stakes and made Abiy’s tactics more visible to international onlookers, but the pattern of disinformation, intolerance, and...
The Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afwerki alliance is not occurring in an ideological vacuum; it is not merely due to their dislike of, vengeance against, or power tussle with TPLF. The ideology that brings them together is currently underway in Abiy’s reform: it departs from...
It could be a long war, because Tigrayans are over-represented in the armed forces, and much of the army’s heavy weapons and equipment, which were based in Tigray because of the border war with Eritrea, has fallen into the TPLF’s hands. The TPLF has no air force, but...