As Ethiopia's government grapples with insurgent forces in its Amhara Oromo and Tigray provinces and heightened tensions with neighbouring Eritrea and Somalia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his ruling Prosperity Party are talking up signs of an economic rebound ahead of the elections due in June next year...
Those who cut a deal with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed especially Getachew came under pressure from former allies saying that the negotiators betrayed Tigray by kowtowing to Addis Ababa...
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When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was greeted on the tarmac at Mogadishu airport by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on 27 February hopes were raised of a normalisation of relations after the two leaders fell out a year ago over the status of Somaliland...
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This comes amid claims that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government is close to agreeing a deal to restructure its US$28...
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One highly positive development is the accord signed in Ankara between Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud brokered personally by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in December which has calmed the crisis (AC Vol 65 No 14 Abiy Ahmed's sovereignty deal with Muse Abdi risks more regional turmoil)...
Abiy Ahmed had no real choice but to comply having been isolated by the international community on the question of the indivisibility of Somalia...
In mid-December Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan brokered a deal between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia...
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In a statement following talks on 11 December between Hassan Sheikh and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed mediated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the leaders ‘reaffirmed their respect and commitment to one another's sovereignty unity independence and territorial integrity'...
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He used Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's questionable commitment as a threat to dissidents a tool against rivals and an argument for his re-election...
Yet Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed insisted in late October that he would pursue access to a port via ‘peaceful means' (Dispatches 6/11/24 Abiy plays down threat of conflict over Red Sea access)...
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's remarks to the Ethiopian parliament last week that his government was seeking access to the Red Sea ‘through peaceful means' could mark a critical de-escalation in a dispute which has been becoming increasingly heated...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed suggested reform of the UN Security Council...