Vol 57 No 12 | EGYPTETHIOPIA Dam provocations 10th June 2016 Egypt has reacted with annoyance to further undiplomatic remarks from Ethiopia about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) being a fait accompli that everyone else will have to...
Vol 57 No 9 | ETHIOPIASOUTH SUDAN Raiders hit Gambella 29th April 2016 A ferocious raid by South Sudanese Murle forces into Ethiopia has raised questions about the ethnic division of the states The massive cross-border raid for cattle and children by South Sudanese Murle people into Ethiopia's Gambella Region provoked a robust reaction from Ethiopia's armed forces, by far the...
Vol 57 No 6 | ETHIOPIA Oromia erupts 18th March 2016 Mass protests in Oromia have escalated into a major challenge to the government, which shows no sign of compromise Unrest in Oromia flared last November, and then died away. Many thought it a flash in the pan, but this February protests re-ignited across the region. The spark...
Vol 56 No 25 | ETHIOPIA Edmonds in Ethiopia 18th December 2015 Controversial Zimbabwean mining entrepreneurs Andrew Groves and Phil Edmonds have embarked on a new project in Ethiopia to construct a bottling plant 45 kilometres north of Addis Ababa....
Vol 56 No 25 | ETHIOPIA 'Greater Addis' anger 18th December 2015 Human rights groups have accused the security forces of killing more than 40 people in Oromia state after renewed student protests broke out over the planned expansion of...
Vol 56 No 19 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Tongue-tied BBC 24th September 2015 After years of cutting services, the BBC World Service made a dramatic U-turn this month when the Director of the BBC World Service Group appointed last year, Francesca...
Vol 56 No 12 | ETHIOPIA Win big, win all 12th June 2015 The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front is set to become what its critics have long accused it of being: a government without an opposition. That is what the...
Vol 56 No 8 | ETHIOPIA Troubled road to liberalism 17th April 2015 The Prime Minister is set to come out of Meles’s shadow after the elections with greater emphasis on the free market. Not all are on board Come October, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn will almost certainly be re-elected as Chairman of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front with only token, if any, opposition. Then...
Vol 56 No 7 | ETHIOPIA Easy on the landslide 3rd April 2015 The EPRDF wants a less crushing win in the elections in May. Meanwhile, it delicately manages the ethnic balance within the party Nobody, least of all members of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front doubts that anything less than overwhelming victory awaits it at the end of the national...
Vol 56 No 7 | EGYPTETHIOPIA Grand union on show 3rd April 2015 The new tripartite accord over the US$4.8 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam may not provide the resolution to arguments over the use of the Nile waters that the...