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And on 13 July Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is planning to host yet another regional summit to which he has invited: South Sudan's Salva Kiir; Chad's Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka'; Central African Republic's Faustin-Archange Touadéra; Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed; and Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki...
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When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power five years ago he said his mother had prophesied that he would be the seventh king of Ethiopia...
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Vol 64 No 14 |
- ETHIOPIA
- BRICS
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's application to join the BRICS economic grouping (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) looks to be mostly about political symbolism and attempting to return the country to global diplomacy after the two years of civil war...
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Then it made heavy concessions to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal government due to its military weakness (AC Vol 63 No 25 Tentative steps towards peace)...
Vol 64 No 12 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
IGAD brought Salva on as a substitute for the usual regional mediator Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who is tied up in his own country's problems...
As long as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed insists the delayed 2021 elections were legitimate and that any proposal to end the ruling Prosperity Party's five-year term is unconstitutional it well be hard to reach a deal...
In negotiations over the disputed Al Fashqa that straddles the Ethiopia-Sudan border Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed saw Burhan was intransigent...
Growing local suspicions of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ties with Tigray and Oromo nationalists have coalesced into a mutiny against the federal government's efforts to rein in the Amhara region's paramilitary forces...
Following the successful November peace process in South Africa between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) the Zanzibar talks due to start on 26 April with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) are another sign that Ethiopia is emerging from a period of sprawling spiralling conflict (AC Vol 63 No 22)...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been accused of meddling by the Church and of backing the dissidents...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is wary of this status and independence and had hoped to use the Oromo priests to weaken its power...