The EPRDF is flat-shifted; the TPLF is tactically defeated.

Time has come to say the following.

Since the changing of the guard in early 2018 the new leadership has stepped up its commitment to alter the significance of the EPRDF using various internal and…

Late Trump neglect

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· The present Ethiopia/Tigray crisis has a problem seen from the point of view of Washington : there is nobody firmly in charge and no policy view is offered

· So everything falls back on Under-Secretary Tibor Nagy’s lap and ,by default…

THE THINGS THAT KEEP ME AWAKE AT NIGHT: All in One!

Though it ended on a note of extraordinary bleakness of the country’s political economy my starting point was dissatisfaction with the pernicious geopolitical move of the leadership.

On Religion and Ethiopia

“Given the widespread rise of new religious movements in the rest of Africa, and their frequent external financing, the challenge for the State in Ethiopia is to to learn how to live with this new phenomenon, to be sensitive to its dangers, possibly deal with some of its grievances…

Africa, America, and the Rest

The US has outlined a sort of new, though jumbled policy, on Africa. While America seems enthusiastic about new commercial ties with the continent the new strategy is largely composed of old hysteria, lectures, and chapters of previous frenzy psychological and social…

Africa’s Indefensible Delay

A combination of over ambition, honest expectation and donor dependence had trumped a highly needed continental military, a quick reaction capacity that would enable Africans to respond swiftly to a crisis unhampered by any heavy political and instrumental burdens. At the July…

The Security Debate Africa Needs

The most flagrant and widely deplored contradiction is between Africa’s self-image of owning its own security and a reality in which many of its territories are overrun by foreign forces and its united military projections are sharply limited, its coastline fully…

How best to use the BRICS

The upcoming BRICS Summit marks the start of a new phase in Cyril Ramaphosa’s international standing. Though the hype around BRICS has noticeably died down new chair South Africa must use the opportunity to revitalize the bloc in a way it helps alternative political forces. Central…

Africa’s Catch of Circling the Wagons with US Special Forces

Common defense and security policy has been the constant theme of the African Union. Ten years after a declaration of principles on African ownership we are witnessing subdued emotions and reversal of fortunes. Conversely…

Trump inflicting considerable damage on Africa

As far as Africa is concerned Trump is present where he shouldn’t be and absent where he should be.

President Trump is largely vague on Africa except in the area of ‘the war on terror’ and the killing of civilians. When it…