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Ethiopia: Beyond the Politics of Hate led by Meles, Seyoum and Tedros
December 19, 2020
Addis Ababa (HAN) August 22, 2016. After waves of public protests that denounced long-time ruling party the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopia has experienced a political transformation. analyzing data primarily generated from interviews with government officials, members of civil society organizations, journalists, human rights advocates, and freedom of speech activists.
Ethiopia: Beyond the Politics of Hate By Al Mariam
Statement of my credo: Hate is the one crumbling wall that now stands between the people of Ethiopia and freedom, democracy and human rights in Ethiopia. The T-TPLF has weaponized and politicized hate. But the mud walls of hate erected by the T-TPLF are today collapsing on the T-TPLF everywhere under the volcanic pressure of a popular uprising . The kililistans (T-TPLF’s equivalent of apartheid’s “Bantustans”) are dissolving before our eyes.
China’s massive investments in Ethiopia give it a lot to lose amid renewed sectarian violence.
December 10, 2020
A Sudanese soldier speaks to Tigray refugees who fled a conflict in the Ethiopia’s Tigray region near the Lugdi border crossing, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty
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Media reports have hardly mentioned what the latest episode of sectarian violence in Ethiopia could cost China. Few of the East African country’s foreign investors have more to lose, however. Officials in Beijing see Ethiopia as a hub for the Belt and Road Initiative, an ongoing project to expand China’s sphere of influence by bankrolling infrastructure throughout the Global South. China has poured money into the East African country in a bid to earn its goodwill, but ever-rising tensions between Ethiopian ethnic groups are undermining that strategy.