Tag: #Prosperity Party

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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? 

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 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

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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

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