Awol Allo

The coun­try is not cur­rent­ly in a po­si­tion to hold free, fair and cred­i­ble elec­tions.

And in or­der to start one, it needs to face its im­pe­r­i­al past and lega­cy.

Tigray is the last fron­tier in a bat­tle over the char­ac­ter of the Ethiopi­an state.

Haa­caaluu in­spired a whole gen­er­a­tion of Oro­mos to fight for their rights. His trag­ic death is an in­cal­cu­la­ble loss.

The new pan-Ethiopi­an par­ty cre­at­ed to re­place the EPRDF coali­tion risks bring­ing the coun­try to the edge of an abyss.

The prize not only ac­knowl­edges the Ethiopi­an prime min­is­ter’s com­mit­ment to peace, but en­cour­ages him to do more.

The Vic­to­ry of Adwa has been a very di­vi­sive is­sue in Ethiopia for decades. It’s time to change that.

Ethiopia needs both ac­count­abil­i­ty and rec­on­cil­i­a­tion to come to terms with its vi­o­lent and di­vi­sive past.

Ethiopia’s gen­der bal­anced cab­i­net is send­ing women around the coun­try a clear mes­sage: the pa­tri­archy can be beat­en.

But the com­plete re­moval of ac­count­abil­i­ty and jus­tice from the agen­da is not the an­swer.