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...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is believed instinctively to side with those opposing Muse Bihi but a military intervention is out of the question and economic sanctions could hurt Ethiopia as much as Hargeisa...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is less amenable to independence claims such as that made by Somaliland given his own deep problems with ethno-nationalism at home...

Better relations between Sudan's leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have sidelined Egypt in negotiations over the management of the dam...

Burhan and Abiy Ahmed take a personal interest in the negotiations meeting to discuss details on 5 March in Doha on the sidelines of the UN Development conference...

Instead Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's reference in parliament to the multiple deaths outraged many Ethiopians...

ABIY'S NATIONAL PROJECT IS UNDER FIRE Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's dual heritage – his mother a Christian and his father a Muslim from Oromia – was seen as a great asset when he took over in 2018...

Despite withdrawing some troops from Ethiopia Issayas has no interest in helping a political resolution between the TPLF and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government...