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IMF sees economic light in Addis amid political gloom

The Fund expects high growth and increasing tax revenues as Abiy Ahmed’s pro-market reforms bed in

As Ethiopia’s government grapples with insurgent forces in its Amhara, Oromo and Tigray provinces and heightened tensions with neighbouring Eritrea and Somalia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his...


Economic rebound complicates debt talks

Officials in Addis Ababa say the restructuring is almost agreed – but commercial creditors want better terms as growth picks up

Ethiopian officials are making progress towards restructuring US$8.4 billion external debts owed to official creditors, announcing an ‘agreement in principle’ on 21 March but they are locked into...


Ailing Salva ups the ante

Salva has made aggressive moves with Ugandan backing as a visa row with the US marks the superpower’s turn away from its one-time friend

Amid visible signs of worsening ill-health, President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been moving to protect his authority and succession, just as the house arrest of First Vice-President Riek...


Cash, platitudes but no peace

About US$750 million in fresh humanitarian aid – €522m ($592m) from the European Union and £120m ($158m) from the United Kingdom – was on the table along with...


Salva sidelines Riek

Chaos surrounds the fate of South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, whose arrest threatens to reignite war. On 26 March, his Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO)...


Tigray’s political fight sounds alarm

Unresolved border disputes with Asmara and internal divisions in Ethiopia are driving the region to the brink

A schism in the Tigray regional authority has erupted into clashes in several towns and could draw in Eritrea and Ethiopia’s federal government, maybe others, into a devastating...


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