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They said Abiy Ahmed would “unite Ethiopia” and make it the Singapore of Africa. Seven years later, the country can’t even pay its bills, hold its borders, or feed its people. Let’s stop pretending Ethiopia is a “rising power.” It’s a failed experiment kept on life support by for
In a rare and unfiltered interview with Zara Media, Jaal Jiregna Gudeta — senior adviser to Jaal Marroo, the leader of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) — delivered one of the most candid assessments yet of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s recent war rhetoric on the Red Sea. His w
The map says it all. From the blood-red zones of Amhara and Benishangul-Gumuz to the orange cautions stretching across Oromia and Somali regions, Australia’s Smartraveller advisory paints Ethiopia not as a tourist destination — but as a country consumed by conflict, fear, and s
It’s official now. Ethiopia’s economic “renaissance” has gone from sales pitch to slow-motion crash. Reuters confirmed this week that Addis Ababa’s debt restructuring talks have collapsed — bondholders walked out, the government admitted defeat, and legal action is on the table.
For a country once paraded as Africa’s “rising star,” Ethiopia’s latest poverty report reads like an obituary for a dream that never matured. The World Bank’s Poverty & Equity Brief paints a grim picture: nearly four out of ten Ethiopians now live below the poverty line, up fr
In one of his strongest statements to date on the Nile dispute, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi used the opening of the 8th Cairo Water Week to deliver a firm warning to Ethiopia over its handling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Addressing ministers, di
Eritrea’s Minister of Information, Yemane G. Meskel, has sharply rebuked Ethiopia’s latest communication to the United Nations, describing it as “an act of duplicity in its extreme” and “a deceitful charade” aimed at misleading both Ethiopians and the international community. The
If you only read Addis Ababa’s 2 October letter to the UN, you’d think Ethiopia is a beleaguered neighbor fending off an Eritrean onslaught and some shadowy “Tsimdo” plot. Reality is less theatrical and far more documented: for a full year Ethiopia’s leadership has normalized tal
When "Think Tanks" Drift Into Fantasy It is often said that politics in the Horn of Africa suffers from a chronic shortage of clear-eyed realism and an overabundance of wishful thinking. Few recent publications capture this affliction as vividly as a September 30 essay by Horn R
When Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed takes the podium, the script rarely changes: bold promises, sweeping reforms, and the announcement of yet another mega-project that will allegedly transform Ethiopia into a continental powerhouse. From unveiling a sovereign wealth fund cl
The United Nations General Assembly’s 80th session saw a fierce exchange of words between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and wider regional disputes, with Cairo delivering a scathing rebuttal that left Addis Ababa’s delegation on the defensive.
Eritrea has sharply condemned what it calls a “political frenzy” by Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP), accusing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government of deliberately manufacturing a regional crisis around access to the Red Sea. In a statement posted on X, Eritrea’s Ministe