6% of the Global Partnership for Ethiopia consortium that won a 15-year national telecoms licence with a $850m bid in May – would be a major blow to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (AC Dispatches 14/5/21 Abiy Ahmed's government may rethink its telecoms reforms amid market jitters on security & 15/9/21 Safaricom and Vodafone get EU's green light for mammoth telecoms investment with Addis Ababa)...
The instability in the Horn is worsening as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed takes his country to the edge of the abyss (AC Vol 62 No 15 Khartoum's fractious neighbours)...
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At the beginning of last week Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced he was going to take command of the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) on the frontline against the rebels...
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In private he is said to have encouraged the efforts of President Kenyatta who has been trying to mediate between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigrayan opposition...
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Although the $85 000 contract with Ethiopia is signed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's US Ambassador Fitsum Arega Gebrekidan Actum lobbyists say they represent the America Ethiopia Public Affairs Committee...
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta made his second trip to Addis Ababa in a month to encourage Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to open negotiations with his Tigrayan opponents after US envoy Jeffrey Feltman had made little progress on that front...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed harbours fewer suspicions about Uganda's regional initiatives than those coming from Kenya or Sudan...
WAR WIDENS REGIONAL RIVALRIES Since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched his military operation in Tigray a year ago Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has walked a diplomatic tightrope...
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Abiy Ahmed's government has cited accusations that foreigners were supporting the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) with help such as satellite imagery as a reason to block international aid and fuel supplies to the region...
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There is unanimity among EU foreign ministers who have condemned Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's handling of the Tigray war...
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It is a measure of the weakening of the federal government's forces that the state of emergency comes a year after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) into Tigray on a three-week 'law and order operation' in response to local fighters attacking a federal military base in the region (AC Vol 61 No 25 Abiy's mission in Mekelle)...
COLLATERAL ECONOMIC DAMAGE Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's grand plans for an economic transition included privatisation of Ethio Telecom as well as the Sugar Corporation and companies in the energy sector...