Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed starts the year having seized the initiative through extensive use of Chinese Turkish and Iranian drones and sees no need to be conciliatory...

But after war broke out between Ethiopia's loyalist army and the rebel Tigray Defence Forces Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has relied on Amhara special forces and militias to shore up his administration...

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)...

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...

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...