Abiy Ahmed’s imperial ambitions are bad news for Africa, and the world. Ethiopia’s claim that it has a ‘natural right’ to directly access the Red Sea, and its dreams of building a ‘great ...

10/31/2018 October 31, 2018. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was feted like a superstar by his countrymen in Germany, whom he called on to return home and help build a new Ethiopia.

Ethiopia’s parliament has elected Abiy Ahmed as the new prime minister, a week after the ruling coalition nominated him to succeed Hailemariam Desalegn. Abiy was sworn in on Monday shortly after ...

On January 28, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) awarded Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed the Agricola Medal. The award may come as a surprise given Ethiopia’s dire ...

It was July 2018, just three months after Abiy Ahmed had been appointed leader of Africa’s second-most populous country, and his star was rising both at home and abroad.

Ethiopian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed has announced he will lead his country’s soldiers on the front lines of the war against advancing rebel fighters, in the latest ...

The Nobel Peace prize went to a champion of peace. But Abiy is also a champion of democracy, at a time when, according to Freedom House, democracy has been steadily losing ground, writes Frida Ghitis.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Barely a year ago Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia was globally acclaimed as a peacemaker, a youthful African leader awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after just 18 months in ...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, the capital, in 2018. Mr. Abiy’s wide-ranging reforms two years ago, which helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize, stirred tensions with ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is already a veteran at surprising the world in just three years in power. He's done it again this week by announcing that, after a year of waging war, he will ...

Ahmed Soliman, a research fellow at Chatham House and an expert on the Horn of Africa, said Abiy’s reform plan also increased expectations among constituencies with conflicting agendas, further ...