Commentary asked if Ethiopia had left the TPLF pan only to fall into ethno-anarchy

In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia published a commentary by Tesfu Telahoun Abebe asking whether Ethiopia had escaped TPLF dominance only to slide into what he called ethno-anarchy after the early optimism of Abiy Ahmed’s first months.

The author tied the question to an earlier July 2018 essay on the first hundred days of sunshine and then returned to rising ethnic violence, elite fractures, and weak institutions.

Opinion pieces are not verified tallies, but dated commentary still shows how writers inside the country framed the reform arc before later full-scale wars.

Kept as politics archive, the frying-pan metaphor records a contemporary fear that removing one hegemonic party would not by itself produce a stable civic order.

Sources: New Business Ethiopia