Egypt Deploys its Most Advanced Fighters to Sudan For Joint Exercises Amid Political Uncertainty

Source: Military Watch Magazine The Egyptian Air Force has deployed a contingent of its most capable fighter aircraft, the MiG-29M, to neighbouring Sudan for the Protectors of the Nile 2020 military exercises. This follows a Western-backed coup in Khartoum in 2019 which saw the administration of longstanding Western adversary Omar Al Bashir toppled, with Sudan’s political future still […]

What’s Happening in Ethiopia Is a Tragedy

By Tsedale Lemma for ©The New York Times Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the prime minister. The announcement last week that the government was about to launch a military operation into one of the country’s regions came, to put it lightly, as a shock. Not only was it very far […]

Ethiopia is about to cross the point of no return

©Mail&Guardian – Rashid Abdi  & Tobias Hagmann With the world’s attention fixated on the United States elections, Ethiopia embarked on a civil war last week. In a time span of five days Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the 2019 Nobel peace prize after making peace with Eritrea, ended the democratic transition that he had initiated two years before. In the early […]

From Oslo to The Hague – The journey of Abiy Ahmed Ali

Solomon Negash   Abiy Ahmed refused dialogue, opted for war, and resisted diplomatic pressure. Make no mistake. This has been his consistent position from day one. He never resolved any tension peacefully with any of his major adversaries at home, including Jawar Mohammed, Eskinder Nega, Lidetu Ayalew, Yilkal Getnet, and many more who are languishing […]

The Nobel committee disappointed by Mr Abiy?

The decision to grant an organisation the Nobel peace prize might be seen in some quarters as a retreat from controversy by the Nobel committee. Last year the award was given to Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, for making peace with Eritrea and seeming to open up space for democratic dissent. But a […]

Down With Democracy?

Excerpts from Famine and Foreigners – Peter Gill – PP167-170 In my first interview with Meles Zenawi, we covered the government’s protracted arguments with the aid-givers over the free market reforms that they expected Ethiopia to adopt and which Ethiopia on the whole resisted. This was the first of the ‘aid conditionalities’. Seven weeks later […]

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Ethiopia – A Country Study 1993

The Emperor’s electric chair

By MIKE DASH Many countries have folk-tales that feature foolish kings – monarchs whose vanity causes them to make catastrophic misjudgements or attempt impossible things. Greek mythology offers the tradition of King Midas, who lived to regret wishing for the power to turn everything he touched into gold; for we Brits, the foolish ruler is […]