Goitom Gebreluel

The com­mon po­lit­i­cal vi­sion of the lead­ers of Ethiopia, Er­itrea and So­ma­lia threat­ens to throw the re­gion into tur­moil.

And is the cur­rent fed­er­al sys­tem en­cour­ag­ing eth­nic vi­o­lence?

Ethiopia and Er­itrea should not re­peat the mis­takes of the 1990s, when a pe­ri­od of rap­proche­ment end­ed in war.

De­moc­ra­ti­sa­tion, while im­per­a­tive, will not solve Ethiopia’s prob­lems. De-eth­ni­ci­sa­tion of elite pol­i­tics would.

The Egypt-Ethiopia dis­pute over the Nile basin can evolve into a strate­gic part­ner­ship.

New in­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal dy­nam­ics are shap­ing the re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries.

Er­itrea’s refugee cri­sis threat­ens to un­der­mine the sta­bil­i­ty of the se­cre­tive coun­try.