Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faces war with neighbouring Eritrea, which is in alliance with his country’s the Tigrayan militia, and another six ethnic militias inside Ethiopia have also effectively declared war on the central government, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Atmis/Wikimedia Commons
War in Ethiopia
Within a year of receiving the Nobel Prize in 2019, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was at war with Tigrayan militia. That war ended in 2022 with the militia defeated and some 600,000 Tigrayans dead, but the country is already sliding back into another war.
