Mereja Forum

Ethiopia: Things Fall Apart?

Published 5 hours ago on July 20, 2021
By The Elephant

Ethiopia seems set to enter a new phase of a brutal civil war. For some of the country’s communities, an existential contest between a centralising logic in Addis Ababa and self-determination among the regions has begun. Oromo activist and storyteller, Ms Soreti Kadir, argues that the brutality against civilians in Ethiopia is about to intensify and prospects for the Ethiopian state are bleak.