Zecharias Zelalem

For years, AU of­fi­cials have re­frained from ad­dress­ing atroc­i­ties in Ethiopia. An­a­lysts say this is strate­gic.

The agree­ment ac­cen­tu­ates his­tor­i­cal ties be­tween Ethiopia and So­ma­liland – and his­tor­i­cal hos­til­i­ty with So­ma­lia.

Ethiopia’s lat­est con­flict has in­ten­si­fied in re­cent months with a surge in drone at­tacks seem­ing­ly tar­get­ing civil­ians.

A se­ries of de­ser­tions by Er­itre­an play­ers to es­cape manda­to­ry mil­i­tary con­scrip­tion has im­pact­ed the foot­ball sec­tor.

Ethiopia’s tone on ac­cess to a sea­port is seen as ei­ther a dis­trac­tion from do­mes­tic pol­i­cy fail­ures or start of a war.

Hu­man rights ac­tivists have crit­i­cised Ethiopia’s con­tin­u­ing re­cruit­ment of women for do­mes­tic work in Sau­di Ara­bia.

Ahead of the sec­ond an­niver­sary of the start of Ethiopia’s civ­il war, there are con­cerns about the lat­est peace deal.

The Ethiopi­an forces and Tigrayan rebels failed to progress in peace talks dur­ing a five-month truce pe­ri­od.

Cit­i­zens at home and in di­as­po­ra ac­cuse the state of com­plic­i­ty in tar­get­ed mas­sacres of cer­tain eth­nic groups.

Twen­ty-two me­dia em­ploy­ees have been ar­rest­ed across Ethiopia this year alone.