Abiy Ahmed faces a divided Ethiopia and growing pressure : Peoples Dispatch

Abiy Ahmed faces a divided Ethiopia and growing pressure : Peoples Dispatch

Ethiopia faces growing instability as the ruling party’s reckless gamble to consolidate power by drawing perceived rivals into a confrontation with each other has inflamed the ethnic fault lines, warned historian and former diplomat, Mohamed Hassan.  Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has lost control over large parts of the country, including over 18 of the 21 zones in the largest regional state of Oromia, where the national capital Addis A…