Ethiopia: Does Ethiopian Nobel Laureate Abiy Ahmed Have New Enemies?

10 December 2019
analysis

Abiy Ahmed gained plenty of detractors and frenemies by enacting daring measures. The prime minister even won the Nobel after making peace with an old enemy. Yet multiethnic Ethiopia remains prone to sporadic violence.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been the public face of Ethiopia's transition to a new democracy since April 2018, In October, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019. As Ahmed turned his attention to restructuring Ethiopia's ruling party in the weeks that followed -- and as violence flared -- two other Oromo men were thrust into his limelight.

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