BREAKING! From Peace Prize to Irrelevance: How Abiy Ahmed Failed Ethiopia
Posted: 02 Jul 2021, 07:28
Three years ago, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was presented with a golden opportunity after the terrorist EPRDF regime that was a front company for the TPLF junta finally succumbed to internal and external pressure. After 27 years of brutalizing Ethiopians and maintaining power with iron fists, the party founded by Meles Zenawi fell from disgrace in 2018. Seemingly out of nowhere, a previously unknown co-founder of the Information Network Security Agency, Ethiopia’s version of the NSA, scaled the political ladder and became Ethiopia’s Prime Minister.
From the outset, Mr. Ahmed captured the imagination of tens of millions of Ethiopians back home and millions more scattered around the world. His telegenic smile, youthful disposition and charm exhilarated a people who had been demoralized by decades of tyrannical rule and legions of political “activists” who promise change only to embezzle their supporters. While public serpents like Birhanu Nega, Jawar Mohammed and Alula Solomon kept feasting on the finest kitfo and drinking black labels, our people back home were being ground into dust. Abiy Ahmed was kryptonite to the super-cowardice of the EPRDF, or so we thought as he pretended to be the polar opposite of the regime that revived apartheid in Ethiopia...continued..
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From the outset, Mr. Ahmed captured the imagination of tens of millions of Ethiopians back home and millions more scattered around the world. His telegenic smile, youthful disposition and charm exhilarated a people who had been demoralized by decades of tyrannical rule and legions of political “activists” who promise change only to embezzle their supporters. While public serpents like Birhanu Nega, Jawar Mohammed and Alula Solomon kept feasting on the finest kitfo and drinking black labels, our people back home were being ground into dust. Abiy Ahmed was kryptonite to the super-cowardice of the EPRDF, or so we thought as he pretended to be the polar opposite of the regime that revived apartheid in Ethiopia...continued..
READ FULL ARTICLE AT: https://ghionjournal.com/peace-prize-ir ... -ethiopia/