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Abiy was reportedly bitter on what he thought was an orchestrated attempt by the TPLFites

Nov 23 , 2019      |           |      8656 Views

Late afternoon on Saturday, an event was held inside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Addis Abeba. In many ways, its symbolic value was not lost on the attendees, claims gossip. It was a moment that marked the change...

The last executive committee meeting of the EPRDF...

Jan 15 , 2020      |           |      11318 Views

The last executive committee meeting of the EPRDF, as it has been known for the past three decades, was held over the weekend in Addis Abeba. It is a turning point event, claims gossip. The founding political f...

Leaders of the parties in the ruling coalition are playing chicken...

Abiy Ahmed (PhD), chairman of the ruling coalition, is determined to go full speed ahead in forming a unified party out of the ashes of what has been the EPRDF. Persuading or co-opting - depending on who sees it - regional political elites who are leading the parties in the rulin...

Nov 2 , 2019      |           |      10756 Views

The turn now appears between the TPLF and the ODP

After a long internal feud, members of the ruling coalition of the EPRDF are now out in public, exchanging communiqués harshly critical of each other. It is not all that new, for their ironclad organisational culture - democratic centralism - has been dissipated. The trading of...

Jan 15 , 2020      |           |      10589 Views

More worrying to Abiy may come from his own backyard

Abiy Ahmed (PhD), prime minister of Ethiopia elected under the EPRDF's platform, is doing everything he can to undo the very vehicle that propelled him to political power. He has been busy rewriting a new programme hoping to replace the Leninist mantra of Revolutionary Democracy...

Sep 28 , 2019      |           |      10857 Views

Addis Abeba branch of the Amahara Democratic Party (ADP)...

The rank and file officials assigned to the Addis Abeba City Administration, representing the ruling coalition, are the most illustrative of the sort of chaos in which the EPRDF finds itself, gossip observed. Gone are the days of the party's iron discipline in the form of democra...

Sep 14 , 2019      |           |      8505 Views

Leaders of the parties in the ruling coalition are playing chicken...

Abiy Ahmed (PhD), chairman of the ruling coalition, is determined to go full speed ahead in forming a unified party out of the ashes of what has been the EPRDF. Persuading or co-opting - depending on who sees it - regional political elites who are leading the parties in the rulin...

Nov 2 , 2019      |           |      10756 Views

The turn now appears between the TPLF and the ODP

After a long internal feud, members of the ruling coalition of the EPRDF are now out in public, exchanging communiqués harshly critical of each other. It is not all that new, for their ironclad organisational culture - democratic centralism - has been dissipated. The trading of...

Jan 15 , 2020      |           |      10589 Views

More worrying to Abiy may come from his own backyard

Abiy Ahmed (PhD), prime minister of Ethiopia elected under the EPRDF's platform, is doing everything he can to undo the very vehicle that propelled him to political power. He has been busy rewriting a new programme hoping to replace the Leninist mantra of Revolutionary Democracy...

Sep 28 , 2019      |           |      10857 Views

Addis Abeba branch of the Amahara Democratic Party (ADP)...

The rank and file officials assigned to the Addis Abeba City Administration, representing the ruling coalition, are the most illustrative of the sort of chaos in which the EPRDF finds itself, gossip observed. Gone are the days of the party's iron discipline in the form of democra...

Sep 14 , 2019      |           |      8505 Views

It is not unusual for the Presidency and the Office of the Prime Minister

It is not unusual for the Presidency and the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO) to misread each other. Gossip recalls the Presidency under Mulatu Teshome (PhD), and the PMO under Hailemariam Desalegn diverging more frequently than any administration before or after them. It is on...

Sep 7 , 2019      |           |      8155 Views

The EPRDF Executive Committee...

There is something eerie about the meeting that started late last week by members of the EPRDF Executive Committee. Not only was it the first to be held since the multiple political assassinations here in Addis Abeba and Bahir Dar, unprecedented in the way that high ranking polit...

Aug 10 , 2019      |           |      16918 Views

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is reviewing the current foreign policy of the country...

The administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is reviewing the current foreign policy of the country, in place since the days of Meles Zenawi. Unlike his predecessor, he has assembled a group of foreign affairs punditocrats, with clear instruction to separate the national...

Jul 27 , 2019      |           |      24705 Views

The coalition under the EPRDF as it has been known for the past three decades is over...

On Monday, July 22, 2019, the legislative body of the Amhara Regional State is to convene. Its legislators will meet for the first time in the aftermath of a violent political event that claimed the lives of four of the regional state's senior leaders. The President, Ambachew Mek...

Jul 20 , 2019      |           |      12044 Views

The war of words between TPLF and ADP

The war of words between the two founding members of the ruling EPRDF - the TPLF and the ADP - has begun. Despite internal feuds and bickering that dates back to Hailemariam Desalegn's time as chairman of the EPRDF, the rhetoric exchanged between the two in public last week, perh...

Jul 13 , 2019      |           |      10372 Views

What defines the ruling coalition, the EPRDF, is ...

What defines the ruling coalition, the EPRDF, is its political culture more so than its ideological literature, gossip observed. It may have the Leninist worldview of revolutionary democracy as its guiding ideological underpinning. But it is the Maoist discipline of democratic ce...

Jul 6 , 2019      |           |      8080 Views


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Leaders of the National Election Board are in a charm offensive mood, of a sort. Last week, they organised a rare tour for members of the me...

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