Ethiopia is losing friends and influence
An essential Western ally now faces sanctions and isolation
IT WAS ONE of the grandest ceremonies that Meskel Square had ever witnessed. Part military parade, part cultural jamboree, the spectacle in the heart of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was so lavish that one might have mistaken it for the inauguration of a president or the crowning of a monarch.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Abiy against the world”
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