{"id":277246,"date":"2019-05-28T03:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vZXRoaW9waWEtZnJvbS10cGxmLWZyeWluZy1wYW4taW50by1ldGhuby1hbmFyY2h5LWZpcmUtbGFzdC1wYXJ0L9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:08","slug":"a-new-business-ethiopia-essay-warned-abiy-was-sliding-from-tplf-rule-into-ethno-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277246","title":{"rendered":"A New Business Ethiopia essay warned Abiy was sliding from TPLF rule into ethno-anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia published the final part of Tesfu Telahoun Abebe\u2019s essay arguing that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had already been losing political capital while ethnic conflict risk rose.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-600493\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tigray-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A New Business Ethiopia essay warned Abiy was sliding from TPLF rule into ethno-anarchy\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics analysis archive, the frying-pan essay dates one private-sector voice\u2019s critique of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s transition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopia-from-tplf-frying-pan-into-ethno-anarchy-fire-last-part\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: From TPLF frying pan into Ethno-anarchy fire? last part&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaBy Tesfu Telahoun Abebe \u2013 I concluded Part 1 by stating that I believe the PM has been irretrievably losing considerable political capital, since at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":600493,"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-277246","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\/2026\/09\/tigray-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a7I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277246","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=277246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754942,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277246\/revisions\/754942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}