“A powerful leadership cannot resolve the endless ethnic conflicts in Ethiopia and save the country. Only a genuine transition to a democracy can.”
“I don’t have any “aim” when I write my articles, other than to present the situation as I understand it. I don’t have any intention, right, or ability to interfere with, let alone alter, Ethiopia’s political course.”
One must see things in their movement rather than in their fixity. The EPRDF is the only path toward maintaining the unity of the country and consolidating it by means of democratic reforms.
The Tunisian state appears both open and cautious to accommodating civil society.
"Abiy Ahmed has already gone down in history for addressing the pressing demands of the vast majority of Ethiopians... But Abiy Ahmed made three mammoth strategic errors."
The constant state of denial that is a feature of the urban middle class and the regime is a necessity to maintain a deeply paradoxical ideological construct.
The reinstatement of compulsory military service in this context of growing tensions is meant to be used for social control.
The withdrawl of the state has lead to a surge in vigilante violence.
Fishermen networks from Morocco and Mauritania have released statements of support, and the Tunisian State Secretary for Immigration, Adel Jarboui, urged Italian authorities to release the fishermen, considered heroes in Tunisia.
The consequences of living this sort of double-life go far beyond family disagreements.
Violence between Morocco’s young political activists is the product of a deeply divided political society that has failed to engage with its youngest members.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine the continuity of the NCP leadership in the face of sustained economic deterioration.
