Ethiopia risks sliding into another civil war
Ethnic tensions and land conflicts lie behind the clashes in Amhara
The sight of tanks rolling through towns as armed drones circle in the sky was supposed to be history. Nine months after a formal end to Ethiopia’s civil war, many had hoped the country was inching back towards stability. Anxious to turn the page on a conflict that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and shredded his reputation as a Nobel-prizewinning peacemaker, Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister, had his sights set on reaching deals with the IMF and the World Bank to rescue the war-wrecked economy.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Sliding towards another war”
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