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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's party is expected to dominate the election as conflicts overshadow the vote.
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: The War in Ethiopia Isn’t Over
The same summer, he struck a peace agreement with Eritrea, resolving a border dispute that since the late 1990s had produced a two-year war and several smaller-scale clashes. That effort earned Abiy ...
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Ethiopia‑Tigray war parties agree pause: expert insights into two years of devastating conflict
The main combatants in the two-year Ethiopia-Tigray war have announced a dramatic pause in hostilities. What started on November 3 2020 as a swift armed mission by Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed ...
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Will Peace Hold in Tigray? Blinken Visits Ethiopia Four Months After Truce Reached to End War
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Wednesday with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other top officials, including leaders from the northern Tigray region. Blinken praised the four-month ...
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Tigray’s Cultural Heritage Is in Danger, But Does the World Care?
November 2, 2022, marked the end of a deadly two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia’s battered Tigray region. Two years of rampant ethnic and cultural cleansing that has claimed over half a million ...
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Ethiopia heads to the polls under the shadow of dissent and armed conflict
As Ethiopia prepares to hold its seventh general elections since the downfall of the military regime in 1991 on Monday, Prime Minister ...
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Peace at Last: Tigray War Ends After Talks in South Africa
The Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group, the two belligerents in Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war within the country’s northern Tigray region, agreed on ...
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Ethiopia’s PM won a Nobel Peace Prize, stoked a civil war and is set for re-election
When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control.
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Why Ethiopia and Eritrea May be Heading for Another War
A year ago, Tigrayan and Ethiopian officials met in Pretoria to sign a cessation of hostilities agreement. The Pretoria Accords were supposed to end the Tigray War, which had claimed an estimated ...
News Ethiopia » Tigray » History: Ethiopia’s Hard Road to Peace
Rape, extrajudicial killing, manmade famine, denial of medical aid and services, and expulsions described by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as “ethnic cleansing” are among the horrors of the ...