On 17 June 2019 Borkena carried the final part of Tibebe Samuel Ferenji’s response to Major Dawit Woldegiorgis, arguing that Ethiopia did not fit the label of a failed state.
The essay pressed institutional, historical, and social facts against collapse rhetoric while acknowledging serious security and governance strains in the reform period.
Kept as politics-analysis archive, the Borkena finale dates a mid-2019 diaspora debate over whether Ethiopia had crossed into state failure.
Sources: Borkena