Ethiopia

Insufficient water for washing is likely to worsen the coronavirus in the poorest nations. There’s a better way forward.

Ethiopia and Egypt are at odds over a Nile dam. Washington should be helping them compromise, rather than doing Cairo’s bidding.

“You really have to go back to decades ago in the U.S., to Dust Bowl days, to understand just how devastating this can be.”

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has disbanded Africa’s largest political party in an effort to reinvent the country’s politics—but some powerful players stand to lose, and they won’t go quietly.

But talks in Washington haven’t yet solved the trickiest questions still looming over the dam’s impact on countries downstream.

Ethno-regional divisions might tear apart hopes of unifying power at the center.

Ethiopia’s continued efforts to dam the Nile could end in war with Egypt. Here’s how to stop that from happening.

Oromo nationalism helped bring Abiy Ahmed to power, but it could also be his undoing. To hold the country together, the Nobel-winning prime minister needs to convince various ethnic groups that he and his new party represent all Ethiopians.

Long considered domestic issues, the continent’s battles are really international contests for influence and power.

Western leaders long saw the authoritarian Meles Zenawi as an indispensable ally. Now, they’ve found a new hero in Abiy Ahmed. But is the Nobel Prize an effort to make amends or influence Ethiopia’s political future?

Ethiopia is on the right course. But there’s much more to be done.

Boris Johnson upends British politics, al Qaeda readies itself for the 18th anniversary of 9/11, and Mugabe is gone, but his legacy is still shaping Zimbabwe.

The countries’ leaders both promised change, but only one has delivered.

Ahead of elections in 2020, Ethiopia has many problems to address. Here are our top reads on how Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power and what comes next.

Ethiopia’s prime minister oversaw the chaotic release of thousands of prisoners, including many ethnonationalist militants. His amnesty may now be coming back to haunt him.