{"id":274382,"date":"2019-04-30T03:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiR2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhLWluc2lnaHQuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMzAvbW92ZS1mYXN0LWFuZC1icmVhay10aGluZ3Mv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:33:41","slug":"ethiopia-insight-abiys-move-fast-and-break-things-year-hit-its-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274382","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Insight: Abiy\u2019s \u2018move fast and break things\u2019 year hit its limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 April 2019 Ethiopia Insight argued that Abiy Ahmed\u2019s honeymoon was over. Populism, appeasement, and disruption had worked as far as they could in a federal landscape full of unresolved grievances.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466807\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Abiy-Ahmeds-Expansionist-Goals-Pose-Risks-to-Africa-and-Global-Stability.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia Insight: Abiy\u2019s \u2018move fast and break things\u2019 year hit its limit\" \/>\n<p>The essay contrasted Abiy\u2019s breezy BBC claim that he was obviously the man to unite Ethiopia with a country that felt more divided after a year of released prisoners, elite bargains, and revived identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>Insight\u2019s critique refused both nostalgia for EPRDF discipline and cult praise for medemer theater. It treated speed itself as a governance risk when institutions lag behind speeches.<\/p>\n<p>Reading it after Tigray and Amhara wars, the piece is early stocktaking, not prophecy. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s regime kept moving fast. What broke were civilian lives and the fiction that charm alone is a constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopia-insight.com\/2019\/04\/30\/move-fast-and-break-things\/\">Ethiopia Insight<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move fast and break things&nbsp;&nbsp;Ethiopia InsightAbiy Ahmed&#8217;s honeymoon is over. The tactics of populism, appeasement, and disruption have worked as much as they could in this complex political landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Abiy-Ahmeds-Expansionist-Goals-Pose-Risks-to-Africa-and-Global-Stability.jpg?fit=275%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602506,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274382\/revisions\/602506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}