Mehari Taddele Maru

Hold­ing war crim­i­nals ac­count­able in Ethiopia is the only way to guar­an­tee last­ing peace in the coun­try.

An im­par­tial me­di­a­tor, po­lit­i­cal will and a frac­tion of the world’s at­ten­tion that Ukraine has re­ceived would help.

The joint OHCHR/EHRC in­ves­ti­ga­tion into al­leged atroc­i­ties in Tigray failed to es­tab­lish a path to­wards ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Abiy Ahmed seeks le­git­i­ma­cy for his pow­er grab with a win in a deeply flawed elec­tion.

The in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty has to take ur­gent ac­tion to bring the war­ring sides to the ne­go­ti­a­tion ta­ble.

As a bi­ased me­di­a­tor, the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion can­not de­liv­er a deal that would sat­is­fy both Egypt and Ethiopia.

In­creas­ing ten­sions be­tween Chi­na and the US will be detri­men­tal to African pros­per­i­ty and peace.

Re­cent diplo­mat­ic ini­tia­tives in the Horn are a pos­i­tive step, but the re­gion needs much more to achieve last­ing peace.

Con­trary to what the West be­lieves, Africans do not see them­selves as vic­tims of Chi­nese eco­nom­ic ex­ploita­tion.

The com­pe­ti­tion be­tween great pow­ers has trig­gered a string of ma­jor po­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ments in East Africa.