In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia published the final part of Tesfu Telahoun Abebe’s essay arguing that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had already been losing political capital while ethnic conflict risk rose.
The writer said Ethiopia had left the old TPLF-dominated order without settling a stable civic alternative, and that ethno-national pressure was filling the gap.
Opinion pieces like this matter because they recorded elite anxiety during the early reform years, before later wars made the same warning language feel less abstract.
Kept as politics analysis archive, the frying-pan essay dates one private-sector voice’s critique of Abiy Ahmed’s transition.
Sources: New Business Ethiopia