Nationalist moodTo the thousands of supporters of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed thronging Meskel Square in central Addis Ababa on 22 July there was no question that his government's army would soon inflict a devastating defeat on the TDF...

Diplomacy guns and ethnicity The United States is leading the charge on cutting aid to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government pressing it to abandon any attempt to blockade Tigray...

As fighting was spreading eastwards to Afar Region on 18 July Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared a total war on the Tigray People's Liberation Front bringing in soldiers from most of the country's 10 regions to boost the federal forces' ailing campaign...

A Prosperity Party landslide foretold Under the shadow of what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed now calls a national war against Tigray the outcome of the national elections on 21 June seems far less consequential and not in the least surprising...

Judging by the declarations of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Amhara regional government Addis Ababa wants to use its federal might to step up recruitment to the Ethiopian National Defence Forces and at the same time draw in regional forces to encircle Tigray...

Initially after Beshir's fall officials around Hamdok had been closer to Ethiopia whose Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had offered to intercede between Sudan's generals and civilian activists demanding radical change...

It was meant to be a landmark election a critical stage in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's proclaimed agenda for democratic transition after decades of authoritarian rule...

In full denial In the run-up to national elections on 21 June Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched another 'final' offensive in Tigray his third so far...