Tag: #Prosperity Party

Always Betting on the Wrong Horse: America’s Myopic Policy in the Horn

The Sanctions Theater Washington’s latest visa restrictions on so-called “hardline TPLF” leaders are being sold as a contribution to peace....

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

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

Potemkin Governance and Its Consequences: Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa Under Threat

By Debessai Tsegai Since Ethiopia fell under the rule of the Potemkin Party and Colonel Abiy Ahmed, the country has...

From “Correcting History” to Denial: Abiy Ahmed’s Red Sea Narrative Shift

By David Yeh Ethiopian Potemkin Party Chief Abiy Ahmed’s recent insistence that Ethiopia never threatened Eritrea marks a striking rhetorical...

Ethiopia’s Manufactured Crisis Narrative and the Risks It Poses to the Horn of Africa

By Alula Frezghi Introduction When governments lose control of their internal narrative, they often look outward for a target. In today’s...

The Manufactured Enemy: How Ethiopia Uses Eritrea to Distract from Its Own Failures

By David Yeh The Ethiopian government’s renewed attempt to frame Eritrea as the invisible hand behind the Amhara Fano insurgency...

Lazy, Bankrupt, Cowardly, Greedy: The Vocabulary of Failed Leadership

By Awet Andebrhan Political leadership is not about self‑centered ambition, it is about safeguarding a nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity....

The Prosperity Gospel Trap: How a Distorted Theology Governs Ethiopia

by Yemane Abselom The Prosperity Gospel Trap: How a Distorted Theology Governs Ethiopia: How prosperity-gospel thinking distorts PM Abiy Ahmed...

The Potemkin Party’s Delusional March to the Red Sea Must End

By Alula Frezghi The Prosperity Party’s latest wave of expansionist rhetoric promising “Christmas in Assab,” fantasizing about celebrating Ereccha on...

Who Is Ruling Ethiopia? 

 by Ahmed Mahmoud Ethiopia today resembles less a state governed by law and institutions than a polity ruled by an...

Gaslighting as Governance: PP’s Sea Narrative Is a Political Mirage

By ALULA FREZGHI Ethiopia’s ruling PP officials have entered a new phase of frantic messaging. They are loudly promoting their...

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

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