The Gambella Question: Military Appointments and Marginalisation in Ethiopia In September 2018, a sweeping series of military appointments orchestrated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government promoted officers like Generals Alemshet Defe and Desta Abiche, promising...
The Horn of Africa on the Brink: analysing the Ethiopia-Eritrea Crisis, Sea Access, and the Fight for Sovereignty The Horn of Africa stands at a perilous crossroads, where the echoes of past wars threaten to drown out the fragile hope for peace. At the heart of this...
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...