Mereja.Forum

Tom Gardner, who was expelled from the Ethiopia in 2022 after having been found meddling in the internal affairs of the nation under the cover of journalistic mission, writes the following claims:

Why is Abiy such a compelling figure to write about? What sort of access were you able to get? Abiy is without doubt one of the most enigmatic, confounding and contradictory figures in contemporary African — indeed, global — politics. In fact it is hard to overstate just how slippery and elusive he is, and how much he defies easy categorization: he is, at once, part preacher, part spy; part reactionary nationalist, part future-facing moderniser. It is for this reason that one of the core arguments of my book is that he is, in effect, the iconic African leader of the so-called ‘multipolar’ age — an esoteric bricolage of influences styles: national and cosmopolitan; old and new; African, Western and Middle Eastern. The problem with such a figure, though, is that access to him as a foreign journalist is close to impossible. So I’ve had to work around that, interviewing as many people as possible who have known and worked with him, in order to slowly, over the course of my six years in Ethiopia, build up a portrait of the man.

Tom Gardner already confesses here that he couldn't get an access to the subject he is rushing to write about and has to rely on third party sources, putting the validity of his arguments in question in all directions at the outset.

We know who is against the emerging multipolar world order and why all such a smear campaign is being waged, starting with the current Ambassador of USA in Ethiopia and many of the mouth-pieces of the declining adherents of the unipolar world order, like Tom Gardner.

It is good that they admitted publicly that Abiy is a challenger to their ambition of sustaining their old world order.

We know them and they know us, from now on! NO MORE!

It must have also been a reckless "intervention" in the domestic politics of the rest of the countries around the world whose leaders have received the Noble Prize so far, isn't it? Otherwise how I am supposed to interpret this statement here?

What was the impact of Abiy winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for bringing peace with neighboring Eritrea? I think the prize was a reckless intervention into Ethiopia’s domestic politics, which emboldened Abiy to embark on a more confrontational path with his political opponents and ultimately served to push him further down the path to war.

They keep l*cking their own wounds of jealousy while Abiy Ahmed has moved on and making a tremendous impact not only for Ethiopia but also at the global level, like Tom Gardner himself admitted in the above quoted statement.

This is what the rest of the world say about your clown monkey:

Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed named worst head of state in the world.

https://www.sciencenorway.no/government ... ld/1965184