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Members of the Amhara Special Forces seat on the top of a truck in the city of Alamata, Ethiopia, on December 11, 2020. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
AFRICAN UNION

Open Letter: Ethiopia needs a political — not a military — solution to end the devastating civil war

Retributive justice merely leads to generational cycles of violence. And the civilians continue to be subjected to rape, torture, death and illegal detentions

  • Concerned African Intellectuals
7 min read
People walk in the street in the city of Gondar, on November 09, 2020. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
ABIY AHMED

Ethiopia is about to cross the point of no return

As the conflict between the national government and Tigray escalates, the window for intervention is closing fast

  • Rashid Abdi
  • Tobias Hagmann
5 min read
Even as the prime minister was being feted in Oslo last year, the seeds of this conflict were being sewn. (Kumera Gemechu/Reuters)
ABIY AHMED

Abiy Ahmed won a Nobel peace prize. Now Ethiopia is on the brink of civil war

Even as the prime minister was being feted in Oslo last year, the seeds of this conflict were being sown.

  • Zecharias Zelalem
9 min read