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	Ethiopia
Population:	107.4m
GDP:	$205.13bn
Debt:	30.5% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 62 No 11 |

ETHIOPIA

Bad omens for twice-postponed elections as Western states mull more sanctions

25th May 2021

Prime Minister Abiy's opponents will focus on disrupting the elections in every way possible

The announcement by Birtukan Mideksa, chairwoman of The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), that the national elections are to be postponed until 21 June risks producing the...

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Vol 62 No 10 |

ETHIOPIA

Abiy Ahmed's government may rethink its telecoms reforms amid market jitters on security

14th May 2021

Race heats up for the world’s biggest untapped mobile money market

Having spent years admiring the rise and sustained dominance of Safaricom's mobile money service M-Pesa in Kenya, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government may find itself competing with it...

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Vol 62 No 10 |

ETHIOPIA

Officials send conflicting signals over poll dates

10th May 2021

After problems with voter registration and security, the chances of another delay in elections are increasing to the frustration of the government

Government officials have told Africa Confidential that there will be no further delays to the polls scheduled for 5 June, and that campaigning has started in earnest. They...

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Vol 62 No 9 |

ERITREA
ETHIOPIA

Issayas in for the long haul

29th April 2021

Asmara sends more military units across the border to Tigray and beyond, despite its pledge to withdraw

Ethiopian officials are preparing for national elections in early June against a backdrop of political and economic reversals for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Despite growing violence in Tigray...

Vol 62 No 9 |

Lobby shops curry favour

29th April 2021

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been among the most vocal critics of Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed's handling of the ongoing civil war in Tigray. In...

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Vol 62 No 9 |

ETHIOPIA
EUROPEAN UNION

Aid with election strings attached

23rd April 2021

The EU is tag teaming with the US to keep up pressure on Addis Ababa for reconciliation measures ahead of the June election

The European Union will send an election observation mission for June's general elections in Ethiopia, and has restarted sending humanitarian aid to the country, but there are strings...

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Vol 62 No 8 |

ERITREA
ETHIOPIA

Addis and Asmara exchange vows

15th April 2021

Ethiopia and Eritrea may consider a federation as the conflict in Tigray becomes part of a wider reordering of regional geopolitics

Efforts to float a trial balloon for greater closeness between Eritrea and Ethiopia by Ambassador Dina Mufti at his weekly press conference in Addis Ababa at the end...

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Vol 62 No 8 |

ERITREA
ETHIOPIA

Eritrea entrenches in Tigray

15th April 2021

Issayas’s forces were the spearhead of Addis Ababa’s ousting of the Tigray government. They are there for the long haul

As the fog around the conflict in Tigray slowly begins to lift, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's reliance on the armed forces of his Eritrean counterpart Issayas Afewerki is...

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Vol 62 No 7 |

ERITREA
ETHIOPIA

Abiy gives first ground

1st April 2021

Prime Minister Abiy has finally admitted to an open secret about Eritrean troops, but the guerrilla war in Tigray rumbles on

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has finally, if grudgingly, admitted to Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives on what everybody has known for months: Eritrean troops are operating across Tigray....

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Vol 62 No 7 |

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ETHIOPIA

Abiy makes grudging admission on atrocities in Tigray

29th March 2021

As horrendous reports emerge abuses of civilians in the embattled region, Addis Ababa admits involvement of Eritrean troops

International pressure seems to have prompted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to declare on 26 March that Eritrean troops will withdraw from the Tigray region after reports of their...

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