Is the West judging Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed fairly?

Or are false accusations crowding out the truth?

Is the West judging Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed fairly?No other Nobel Peace Prize winner in recent memory has endured the wrath of the international media, the fury of global think tanks, and the scolding of UN, EU, and U.S. officials as much as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The Washington Post describes the decision to bestow the Peace Prize on him as “the…

The U.S. needs to reset its approach to the conflict in Ethiopia

Biden risks pushing Ethiopia onto a path of destruction that cannot be reversed

The U.S. needs to reset its approach to the conflict in EthiopiaThe Biden administration’s pressure on the Ethiopian government to find a peaceful end to the current war is justified on moral, humanitarian, and geopolitical grounds. However, the U.S.’s threats of sanctions have come and gone without any impact, signalling a lack of understanding of the Ethiopian psyche and a failure to appreciate the complexity of…