A Spring in The Horn: Mass Protest and Transition in Sudan and Ethiopia

BY RASHID ABDI | ADDIS STANDARD Two mass protest movements have, in quick succession, forced regime changes in Sudan and Ethiopia, two of the Horn of Africa’s quintessential “hard” states. A deep-seated disillusion with the security and developmental states drives the new “revolutionary” mood. What is less clear is where all the ferment and the […]

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Ethiopia and the United States: Can the Crisis be Prevented?

The U.S. expects worst case scenarios such as genocide, ethnic cleansing or civil war can not happen in Ethiopia. It conveniently prefer fighting the fire rather than preventing it from happening. BY DAWIT W GIORGIS The simmering crisis in Ethiopia has reached a boiling point. It is extremely serious and every person who has watched […]

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Highlights of Lt. Gen. Tsadkan’s Watershed Article on Ethiopia Political Crisis

By Publius Aethiopicus, Lt. General Tsadkan Gebre Tensay, former Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces has written a bold article in Amharic calling for the regime to undertake fundamental political changes to spare the country from implosion and turmoil. There is no question today that Ethiopia under the Tigray People’s Liberation Front/Ethiopian People’s […]

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More Violence Forecast in Ethiopia’s Gambella as Death Toll Rises

By Clea Broadhurst | for Radio France International, Clashes between different ethnic groups in west Ethiopia left 14 dead this weekend, while UN and MSF offices were targeted by angry protesters. Tensions have been rising these past months in Gambella, the region which has a population of 300,000 but has taken in 270,000 mainly Nuer […]

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