Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia
EU commissioner Janez Lenarcic expected in Addis shortly

While the Ethiopian justice minister is expected in Brussels this weekend, the European commissioner for humanitarian affairs, Janez Lenarčič of Slovenia, is due to travel in the opposite direction

The New Guard
Guinea, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Guinea Abdourahim Barry, the oil ministry's rising star

Ethiopia Mamo Mihretu, Abiy Ahmed Ali's right-hand economics man

Zambia Mwiya Musokotwane, the fintech sector's leading lobbyist

Zimbabwe John Basera, Mnangagwa agricultural programme's golden boy

Ethiopia, Europe
Abiy sends team to Brussels in bid to emerge from EU's bad books

A few days before the European Foreign Affairs Council meets to discuss the Horn of Africa, Ethiopian justice minister is due in Brussels to plead his country's cause.

Ethiopia
New-look Jawar Mohammed steps back into the limelight in the diaspora

Released from prison in January, Oromo activist Jawar Mohammed finally broke his silence in May by giving two interviews to Amharic- and Oromo-speaking audiences in Ethiopia and its diaspora.

Ethiopia
EU divided over $300m World Bank grant to Abiy

The first major disbursement to Ethiopia from an international financial institution since the start of the civil war in 2020 went ahead despite the reluctance of key political figures in the European Union.

Ethiopia
Abiy's Islamic Council peace deal threatened by internal tensions

Reconciled in 2019 by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, several Muslim religious leaders are again at daggers drawn over control of the Islamic Affairs Supreme Council.

Ethiopia, Kenya
Kenyatta and Abiy's relations soured by Ethiopian businessman's kidnapping

Kenya has refused to allow Ethiopian and international investigators to travel to Nairobi to investigate the abduction of a Tigrayan businessman. This further complicates relations between the two countries that were already damaged by the conflict in Tigray.

Ethiopia
Abiy's humanitarian "truce" caught between a rock and a hard place in Tigray and Afar

A week after the truce announced by the Ethiopian federal government, a convoy of 21 trucks left Semera yesterday. A few days before, fighting in the Afar between Tigrayans and local militias was still raging.