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Somali Prosperity Party cadres rally to TPLF cause

Several senior officials of the Somali Regional State (SRS) administration recently defected from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party (PP). [...] (219 words)

Issue dated 21/12/2021

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ETHIOPIA
Abiy Ahmed
Congress for Somali
Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front
Mahamud Ugas Muhumed
Prosperity Party
Somali State Resistance
Tigray Defense Forces
Tigray People's Liberation Front
United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces

Abiy ensnared by his Amhara allies Free

Whether the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) will take part in upcoming talks is a divisive question in the prime minister's camp. [...]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. © Marwan Ali/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

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The Oromo Liberation Army, which is at war with the federal government, has recently thrown in its lot with Tigrayan forces, putting an end to almost three decades of conflict with them. [...]

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ETHIOPIA Politics 01/12/2021

Who are the federal army veterans in charge of the Tigray offensive?

For their counteroffensive, the Tigray Defense Forces have been relying on a small team of highly experienced military leaders, lead by regional president Debretsion Gebremichael. [...]

ETHIOPIA Politics 26/11/2021

Yussuf Hamid Nasser, the veteran of the TPLF-led anti-Abiy coalition

In early November, the Berta leader Yussuf Hamid Nasser, who has variously been an armed rebel, a political leader and an exiled opposition member over the past half-century, joined an alliance formed by the TPLF and eight other movements against the Ethiopian federal government. [...]

ETHIOPIA Politics 23/11/2021

Berhane Gebre-Christos, Tigray rebels' top diplomat

Ethiopia's former ambassador to the US and the EU orchestrated the early November creation of an enlarged rebel coalition. Based in Washington, Berhane has the support of international networks forged over his 45-year career. [...]

Former Ethiopian Foreign Minister Berhane Gebre-Christos. © Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia/Twitter

Inner circles

ETHIOPIA Politics 23/04/2021

Abiy's Prosperity Party destabilised by regionalist tensions

A little over a year after it came into being and with less than two months to go to a high-stakes general election, the prime minister's party is increasingly riven by violent dissensions which nothing seems to be able to stop. [...]

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Tigray People's Liberation Front
United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces

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