Strategic Thinking on East Africa

by the Strathink Editorial Team Recent events in Ethiopia reveal the growing pains of a country in transition. Just twenty-five years ago, Ethiopia was slowly waking up after nearly two decades of a failed experiment to impose an ill-suited socialism on a country that had just thrown off the last vestiges of feudalism. The […]

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    September 3, 2014—The Ethiopian Government is holding Andargachew Tsige, Secretary General of Ginbot 7, since his extradition from Yemen last month. Yemeni security forces apprehended Mr. Tsige while he was attempting to board a plane bound for Eritrea. His arrest brought attention from the British Government, a U.S. Congressman from California, and a […]

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  By the Strathink Editorial Team In his relentless pursuit of untruths, Mr. Al Mariam has taken on an internationally renowned expert on famine, Dr. Alex de Waal. Dr. de Waal has spent the last thirty some years studying famine—and not from the comfort of his desk. Dr. de Waal has spent a great deal […]

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New York Times Photo CreditIllustration by Melinda Josie One August afternoon last year, waiting in the polished lobby of the Maan-Soor Hotel in Hargeisa, Somaliland, I wondered if it wasn’t too late to cancel the appointment I had made. I had been returning to the city of my birth regularly for the past eight years, […]

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Congratulations to the Brookings Institution for expanding the “political space” of the prevailing narrative on Ethiopian politics and economy. On April 24th, Brookings hosted a panel discussion, “The security situation in Ethiopia and how it relates to the broader region,” featuring Professor Terrence Lyons and Professor Abye Assefa. While the views of Professor Lyons are […]

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The Strathink Editorial Team We live in interesting times. Our world today is faster, more connected and, in many ways, smaller than the planet we inhabited just twenty years ago. Yet, one part of our world seems surprising unchanged if we view that region from the perspective of the West—Africa. Despite the profound changes that […]

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by the Strathink Editorial Team While Europe was closing its doors on refugees fleeing the violence and deprivation in places such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq—the Dutch Vice President of the European Commission denying that they are even legitimate refugees—Ethiopia is host to a staggering three-quarters of a million refugees. Ethiopia has opened its doors […]

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  by The Strathink Editorial Team The announcement made by the Oromo Peoples’ Democratic Organization (OPDO) to roll back the Addis Ababa Master Plan was met with a sigh of relief from many corners inside and outside Ethiopia. The Addis Ababa and Surrounding Oromia Special Zone Integrated Master Plan, referred to as “the Addis Ababa […]

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From The Brookings Institution Africa is at a tipping point in 2016. Despite all the success the continent has achieved in recent years, new and old dangers—economic, political, and security-related—threaten to derail its progress. With sound policymaking, effective leadership, and enough foresight, however—Africa can meet and defeat these challenges as well as the many more […]

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By The Strathink Editorial Team They came to the United States and Europe in the late 1970s and 1980’s. Many settled in and around Washington, D.C. Some went on to college, finishing the education they began in Ethiopia during the early and mid-1970s until politics replaced academics. Others bought taxicabs, started small businesses and took […]

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