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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken to Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other top officials several times over the last two months...
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Yet this faux pas was certainly signed off by the Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen who is also Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's deputy...
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As the fog around the conflict in Tigray slowly begins to lift Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's reliance on the armed forces of his Eritrean counterpart Issayas Afewerki is becoming clearer according to multiple sources in Ethiopia...
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Djibouti stands to lose from closer ties between Eritrea and Ethiopia under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed but the country has little choice...
Within hours of Guelleh's victory announcement Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' sent congratulations (AC Vol 52 No 5 Stirring the regional pot)...
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In the Horn it has drifted into a cold war with Abiy Ahmed's Ethiopia and locked horns with Somalia's Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed 'Farmajo' over a long-standing maritime boundary dispute which further complicates increasingly hostile relations (AC Vol 61 No 25 Farmajo breaks with Nairobi)...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has finally if grudgingly admitted to Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives on what everybody has known for months: Eritrean troops are operating across Tigray...
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International pressure seems to have prompted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to declare on 26 March that Eritrean troops will withdraw from the Tigray region after reports of their involvement in serial atrocities against civilians...
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After toughening its language in recent weeks the United States government is despatching Senator Chris Coons to meet Abiy Ahmed and African Union officials in Addis Ababa to discuss what Washington sees as worsening regional security crisis...
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is fending off all pleas for mediation and accountability for human rights abuses committed during his campaign to defeat the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF)...
Abiy's tussle with Brussels Ethiopia's anger with foreign commentary on the Tigray situation turned to fury after Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto briefed European Union ministers on 22 February that the crisis in Tigray region was 'out of control' and that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government was 'in denial' about the scale of the humanitarian crisis there...
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Abiy Ahmed's government is increasingly embattled as criticism grows from the European Union and wider international system about the humanitarian emergency in Tigray as fighting continues for a fourth month between government forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (AC Vol 61 No 24 War resets the region)...
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