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Bread, beans and the economics of survival

By ROGERS TULYAHABWE On the morning of 17 December 2010, a young Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi went to work on a normal day. He was 26 years old, had failed to find formal employment and had resorted to selling vegetables and fruit from a street cart in Sidi Bouzid, a small town in central…

Ethiopia’s Security Collapse Under Abiy Ahmed: From Massacres to Kidnappings Turning daily life into a nightmare

By BINYAM DANIEL From deadly attacks on Orthodox Christians in Oromia to ransom kidnappings on major highways and alleged extortion by security forces in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s deepening insecurity exposes a government increasingly unable to guarantee the most basic responsibility of the state: protecting human life. Ethiopia’s worsening security crisis has once again claimed the…

The Nobel Peace Prize Paradox: Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia, host of the African Union, slides into regional isolation as ties with neighbors collapse

By BINYAM DANIEL  The closure of Ethiopian and Sudanese consulates, the diplomatic rupture with Eritrea and the confrontation with Somalia expose the growing failures of Abiy Ahmed’s foreign policy, raising questions about Ethiopia’s regional leadership while hosting the African Union headquarters. Ethiopia, once regarded as one of Africa’s most influential diplomatic powers, is increasingly finding…