Tag: #Potemkin Party

April – Lights for Few, Darkness for Many: Ethiopia’s Mirage of Prosperity

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
By David Yeh The rise of Abiy Ahmed Ali to power on April 2018, marked a moment of extraordinary optimism...

Life Under Colonel Abiy Ahmed in Ethiopia

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
By David Yeh Life under Potemkin Party Abiy Ahmed leadership in Ethiopia has become, for millions of people, a daily...

Ethiopia’s Potemkin Party: Propaganda, Historical Revisionism, and the Manufactured Eritrean Crisis

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
by David Yeh When a state abandons law and evidence in favor of narrative engineering, crisis becomes a political instrument...

The Potemkin Empire: Abiy’s Flashy Façade Crumbles as Ethiopia Starves

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
By B. Tekle In the Horn of Africa, illusions are a dangerous currency, and no one spends them more recklessly...

Ethiopia on the Edge: Abiy Ahmed Ali’s Brand of “Oromummaa”, and the Deepening National and Regional Crisis

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
By David Yeh Ethiopia now confronts one of the gravest crises in its 130-year history. Under the Potemkin leadership of...