Weeks after the federal government of Ethiopia engaged in a war in the country's northern region of Tigray, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed still thought of it as a walk in the park and only a matter of time before the demise of the Tigray People's (...)
Since the beginning of the onslaught on Tigray in northern Ethiopia in November of last year, the Ethiopian authorities have alleged that the goal of the offensive is to "eliminate" the combatants of the "outlawed" Tigray People's Liberation Front, (...)
In the midst of a highly strained political situation at home and friction with neighbours Sudan and Egypt over the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, Ethiopia will be heading to the polls on 21 June this year.
This is (...)
Setting a dangerous precedent in the history of the Nile Basin, Ethiopia has now said it might mull over "selling" Nile water.
Responding to a question from the TV channel Aljazeera on selling "extra" water after the full construction of the Grand (...)
Addressing the world last week after the freeing of the Ever Given giant container ship that was stranded in the Suez Canal, the most strategic and cost-effective international shipping route, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi delivered a (...)
Enraged protesters have been taking to the streets in different cities across France in opposition to a security bill that would curtail the French people's right to freedom of expression and set restrictions on a free press.
A draft global (...)
Ethiopia's diplomacy has not seen such a mess for almost two decades, at least not under its veteran Minister of Foreign Affairs Siyoum Mesfin, who has been killed in the military offensive launched by the Ethiopian government against its northern (...)
Reading through the memoirs of former US president Barack Obama, A Promised Land, one reaches the conclusion that Arab governments, especially in the past, wasted time and resources to either appease or oppose the United States when it was in no way (...)
An article in the form of an open letter entitled “Dear Egypt” was published on various Ethiopian websites. The article consisted of a narrative defending Ethiopia's right to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, comparing it to Egypt's (...)
In the course of their long history, Sudan and Egypt have never been very close as far as political consultation and joint cooperation are concerned. It is true that the deposed Islamist former president of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, was a stumbling (...)
The crisis engulfing two influential countries in the Horn of Africa is in danger of turning into an avalanche, threatening an already fragile security situation in the region.
Somalia and Kenya have been engaging in a row for almost two years now (...)
The 6 January will remain a day to remember in the roughly 250-year history of the United States. It may be considered the day when the wall of the American sense of superiority, as far as the best democratic exercises are concerned, fell. (...)
The only “success” that Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, may have achieved since assuming office a couple of years ago is that the very foundations on which modern Ethiopia, at least since 1991, has been resting have been shaken.
Before (...)
On 3 July 2013, then minister of defence Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi delivered a crucial statement on the army's support for the legitimate demands of the mass protests staged by hundreds of thousands of people at least in many of Egypt's cities and most (...)
For decades, successive governments in Ethiopia have dragged Egypt through the mud, saying they wanted “exclusive” rights over the River Nile and not heeding the well-being of other riparian nations, mainly upstream ones.
This narrative, regrettably (...)
The unfolding situation in Tigray in northern Ethiopia has shown that efforts, once thought of by the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee as worthy of a prestigious prize that should have been awarded to real advocates and hard-workers for peace, were (...)
Inter-state relations are either “cooperative,” aiming at sharing benefits and the exchange of interests for the betterment of peoples, or “conflictual,” meaning marred by disagreements and at some point escalation that may culminate in the use of (...)
While the world was closely following the nail-biting US presidential elections between incumbent President Donald Trump and former vice-president Joe Biden, things were heating up somewhere else on the planet: in the northernmost part of Ethiopia (...)
This week, the Regional State of Tigray in Ethiopia will hold its own elections in Mekele, the capital city of the founder of the modern “federal” system in the country.
Ethiopia, the second-most populous nation in Africa, should have held its (...)
“Deal or no deal, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [GERD] will be filled on time.”
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew made this reckless remark after recent talks stalled with Egypt and Sudan on the first filling and operation of the (...)
Covid-19 has not only changed the normal life we used to lead, at least for the coming medium-run. It has also ushered in a new “sad truth”: the unprecedented spread of fake news and false information around the clock, on social media in particular. (...)
It has been almost a decade since Ethiopia launched the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, triggering tension with downstream Egypt and Sudan over their future quota of the Nile waters alongside the dam's (...)
“It is not Ethiopia's right to fill the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) without an agreement with Egypt and Sudan.” In a rare show of disagreement with Addis Ababa, Khartoum officially made the remarks that Ethiopia should (...)
The novel coronavirus Covid-19 may be a blessing in disguise for the Abiy Ahmed-led government in Ethiopia. Prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, the incumbent prime minister was facing the hardest of his times since assuming power two years ago. (...)
Streets are empty; cities are deserted; flights are grounded; nations are disconnected and the world is on lockdown. This is not a scene in the American movie “Contagion” or post-devastation life in Will Smith's “I am Legend.” It is reality in the (...)