TPLF Decides to Formally Separate from EPRDF (now Prosperity Party)

BY EZEGA In a defiant move, the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) has decided not to join the Prosperity Party (PP) at the end of its extraordinary conference held over the weekend. According to several videos released, the tone of the just concluded conference was that of anger and defiance directed against central forces.

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The End of TPLF Era in Ethiopia

Ethiopia rising from the ashes of ethnic apartheid BY Prof. AL MARIAM  The political transformation that has taken place in Ethiopia over the past 19 months can best be described as miraculous. I use the word in both its original Latin root meaning “miraculum” (“object of wonder”) and common understanding suggesting divine intervention in human affairs […]

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Ethiopia’s Ruling Coalition Agrees to Form Single ‘Prosperity Party’

BY REUTERS Ethiopia’s ruling coalition on Thursday approved the merger of three of its four ethnic-based parties into a single national party ahead of the 2020 elections, part of the prime minister’s efforts to unite the country, but one of the parties [TPLF] boycotted the meeting and vote.

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Ethiopia and Eritrea Have a Common Enemy

A threat to peace that Washington shouldn’t afford to ignore … BY BRONWYN BRUTON | FOREIGN POLICY Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, made headlines across the world with his surprise move last month to resolve his country’s two-decade-long fight with Eritrea. The nation of Eritrea broke free from Ethiopia through a referendum in 1993, and the two nations then fought […]

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