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	Ethiopia
Population:	107.39m
GDP:	$145.03bn
Debt:	31.77% of GDP (2024)

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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 |

ERITREA
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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Vol 62 No 6 |

ETHIOPIA

Addis pushes back against international pressure over Tigray

22nd March 2021

The diplomatic rifts caused by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government over the Tigray conflict are getting deeper

After toughening its language in recent weeks, the United States government is despatching Senator Chris Coons to meet Abiy Ahmed and African Union officials in Addis Ababa to...

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Vol 62 No 5 |

ERITREA
ETHIOPIA

Stirring the regional pot

4th March 2021

A burgeoning Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somalia axis is resetting relations all over the Horn and undermining regional institutions

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is fending off all pleas for mediation and accountability for human rights abuses committed during his campaign to defeat the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front...

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Vol 62 No 5 |

ETHIOPIA

US and European officials step up pressure on Addis Ababa over reports of war crimes in Tigray

1st March 2021

Diplomatic calls to regional leaders try to coordinate policy towards Premier Abiy's government

Abiy Ahmed's government is increasingly embattled as criticism grows from the European Union and wider international system about the humanitarian emergency in Tigray as fighting continues for a...

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Vol 62 No 4 |

ETHIOPIA
SUDAN

Border ructions escalate over Al Fashqa

22nd February 2021

Role of Egypt and UAE in region under scrutiny as Washington changes its posture

Like a game of three-dimensional chess, the revived border disputes between Addis Ababa and Khartoum about sovereignty over the fertile Al Fashqa area, have been layered on top...

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Vol 62 No 3 |

ETHIOPIA

All eyes on the African Union summit host

5th February 2021

As the UN and the European Union warn about Tigray's crisis, Premier Abiy's government will keep the issue off the summit agenda

This weekend's summit of the African Union, held partly in Addis Ababa and partly online, will struggle to avert its gaze from the multiplying crises around the organisation's...

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Vol 62 No 2 |

ETHIOPIA
SUDAN

Abiy risks more war

21st January 2021

Addis made a deal with Khartoum when it went to war in Tigray. Amhara nationalists could upset this delicate arrangement

Tension along the Ethiopia-Sudan border has risen sharply as Khartoum asserts itself and its territorial rights, threatening to force a once-minor border issue into a major confrontation. On...

Vol 62 No 1 |

ETHIOPIA

Abiy’s search for legitimacy

7th January 2021

The Prime Minister needs to hold successful elections and resolve a long-running dam dispute as he seeks to rebuild his reputation

Holding successful elections, finalising the continuing disagreements over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and providing a new political settlement acceptable to both ethnic nationalists and pan-Ethiopian centralists...

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