Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Editors Note: From one of our readers. by Kassahun Alemayehu The spike of unrest in parts of the country that preceded the Ethiopian government’s declaration of a state of emergency led many observers to ask, “Is Ethiopia’s success story of economic growth and political stability at last fizzling out?” For fourteen years, Ethiopia has registered […]

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From the Brookings Institution Witney Schneidman For Africa, at stake in this election of Donald Trump is the strong bipartisan consensus in Congress that has been the cornerstone of U.S. policy toward the continent for the last three administrations. This consensus, supported by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, was predicated on the notion that Africa […]

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Salem Solomon FILE - Eritrean refugees hold placards during a rally in support of a recent U.N. report that accused Eritrean leaders of committing crimes against humanity, outside the E.U. offices in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 21, 2016. A U.N.-backed commission assigned to investigate human rights violations in Eritrea is calling for a tribunal or […]

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  By the Strathink Editorial Team The scale and scope of Ethiopia’s political unrest during the past year has alarmed officials of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), and with good reason. In Oromia, home to Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, simmering tensions have erupted over, ostensibly, the Addis Ababa Master Plan and later into […]

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From CDRC DIGEST: A monthly publication of the Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation (CDRC) With the potential to undermine peace, stability, political and economic successes Ethiopia registered in the past two decades, protests have been witnessed recently, some planned and others ‘spontaneous’, in the Amhara and Oromiya regions of the country. Some of these […]

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Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 @ 7:59 am by Daniel Berhane A Directive issued on Saturday detailed the restrictions imposed as per the State of Emergency. It is to be recalled a State of Emergency was decreed a week earlier by the Council of Ministers, as the Parliament was in recess. The Decree, which […]

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EPRDF must touch base with the people and overhaul the Party and government! Not too many people would fail to see how much Ethiopia has changed over the last 25 years. What the country has achieved over the last 15 years has been particularly impressive, leading many to take the “Ethiopia rising” narrative quite seriously. […]

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  From Joomla Who is David Shinn and what is his relationship with the Horn of Africa? A: David Shinn, who has a BA, MA, and PhD from George Washington University, served from1964 through 2000 as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. Nearly all of his assignments dealt with Africa either […]

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From the Heritage Institute APRIL 2015 Today women in the Somali region make positive contributions to their communities by applying their knowledge, skills and financial resources through formal and non-formal political processes. Despite having a long and diverse track record of civic and political engagement, women in the Somali region have remained largely absent from […]

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By the Strathink Editorial Team In 2013, the Ethiopian government adopted a Diaspora Policy to engage Ethiopians worldwide into the process of nation building. Recognizing the enormous potential of its hyphenated citizens around the world, the government enacted measures to encourage participation—whether investing financial or technical resources—into the country’s development. Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign […]

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