Around this time last year, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was flying high. Appearing out of nowhere as Ethiopia was nearing an implosion after 27 years of TPLF hegemony and tribal chauvinism, Ahmed gave Ethiopians at home and abroad hope that a new day of tesfa (hope) and andinet (unity) had arrived. So broken thanks to decades of brutal repression and ethnic division, countless millions of people latched on to Ahmed’s rhetoric of “medemer” without questioning his motives.
A year later, it has dawned upon Ethiopians that Ahmed’s promise is not jiving with reality. Gone is the talk of medemer, the EPRDF has returned to the failed tactics of Meles Zenawi and Hailemariam Desalegn. After Ahmed released countless numbers of political prisoners, welcomed home dissidents and liberalized the media, he has countermanded his reforms as he persecutes his political opponents, intimidates the media and jails Ethiopians based on ethnic affiliation.
Was last year nothing more than a ploy to consolidate power and marginalize his foes? Is Ahmed Africa’s next dictator? Was Ahmed nothing more than a rebranding campaign for a system of ethnic apartheid that was foisted upon Ethiopia by outside forces at the London Conference in 1991 at the behest of globalists like Herman Cohen and Henry Kissinger? With each passing day, and as he continues to...continued...
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