Tigray announces cessation of hostilities, but Abiy remains silent
US efforts to move Ethiopian government toward peace and away from Eritrean meddling face key test.
US efforts to move Ethiopian government toward peace and away from Eritrean meddling face key test.
PM Abiy has used starvation as a weapon, while negotiations have sputtered due to mistrust and weak international oversight.
Apparent recognition by Prime Minister Abiy that his forces cannot defeat the Tigrayans is moving the parties toward the negotiating table.
The world is watching as Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan suffer from systemic spoilers — and it’s getting worse everyday.
Regardless of what happens in Tigray, without the help of international financial institutions, the foundation of the state will come apart.
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The Horn of Africa country has joined the vortex of Middle East geopolitics, leaving the Tigrayans vulnerable to a crushing onslaught.
Whether it’s Ethiopia, Belarus, or Nicaragua, economic warfare rarely works and often winds up being counterproductive.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has lost the war; the time has come for a ceasefire to negotiate the country’s future.
Responding, Biden issued an order today declaring the conflict a threat to the ‘national security and foreign policy of the United States.’
Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan have so far failed to come to terms on the still unfinished project.
The country’s erratic prime minister continues to fan the flames.
A brutal regional conflict that broke out last November shows no signs of winding down.
For decades, our Africa policy has taken a blunt approach, quickly designating the good guys and the bad and painting each with a broad brush that demands unquestioning loyalty or enmity.
Egypt and Ethiopia, along with their friends and allies, must avoid maximalism and find a compromise on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
To buy time for Egypt and Ethiopia to reach a comprehensive settlement on the Blue Nile dam issue, the parties should agree on a two year interim fix.
The number of extremist groups in North Africa have only grown as the U.S. military presence there has expanded.