A Borkena commentary asked if the TPLF’s lobbying push was a last hurrah

In May 2019 Borkena published a commentary by Alemayehu G. Mariam asking whether the Tigray People’s Liberation Front’s reported outreach to Washington lobbyists marked a last hurrah or a fresh try at national comeback.

The piece reflected a fierce diaspora and Addis Ababa debate over TPLF strategy after Abiy Ahmed’s rise dismantled the old EPRDF balance that had favored Tigrayan federal power.

Lobby talk, street rumor, and opposition media often mixed in that season, but the archive still shows how early the TPLF–federal rupture was being framed as existential.

Kept as politics archive, the last-hurrah commentary dates one loud reading of TPLF weakness before the later war.

Sources: Borkena