By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
DailynewsegyptDailynewsegypt
  • Home
  • Business
    BusinessShow More
    Madbouly discusses ways to boost metallurgical industries 
    Madbouly discusses ways to boost metallurgical industries 
    September 25, 2023
    FRA to launch futures contracts trading in derivatives market
    FRA to launch futures contracts trading in derivatives market
    September 25, 2023
    We work with Tax Authority to control prices, support consumers: Philip Morris Misr
    We work with Tax Authority to control prices, support consumers: Philip Morris Misr
    September 25, 2023
    Mahmoud Mohieldin says global finance reform needed for just green transitions
    Arab region has great opportunities to harness digitalisation, AI in making progress in implementing climate action: Mahmoud Mohieldin
    September 24, 2023
    FRA to launch voluntary carbon market with 6 local projects
    FRA to launch voluntary carbon market with 6 local projects
    September 24, 2023
  • Politics
    PoliticsShow More
    Defence Minister meets NATO Military Committee chief
    Defence Minister meets NATO Military Committee chief
    September 25, 2023
    Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq discuss economic, political cooperation in New York
    Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq discuss economic, political cooperation in New York
    September 24, 2023
    Al-Sisi highlights opportunities for mutual benefit with China
    Al-Sisi highlights opportunities for mutual benefit with China
    September 24, 2023
    Egypt, India affirm their strategic partnership, discuss regional issues
    Egypt, India affirm their strategic partnership, discuss regional issues
    September 24, 2023
    Pope Francis denounces ‘invasion’ rhetoric on migrants
    Pope Francis denounces ‘invasion’ rhetoric on migrants
    September 24, 2023
  • Interviews
    InterviewsShow More
    Microsoft Egypt aims to provide advanced AI models, build solid AI ecosystem: Mirna Arif
    Microsoft Egypt aims to provide advanced AI models, build solid AI ecosystem: Mirna Arif
    September 18, 2023
    I love privacy, and I am not concerned about competition: Yasmine Sabry
    I love privacy, and I am not concerned about competition: Yasmine Sabry
    September 14, 2023
    Sustainability, digital transformation at the heart of our strategy: Heidelberg Materials Egypt
    Sustainability, digital transformation at the heart of our strategy: Heidelberg Materials Egypt
    September 12, 2023
    India welcomes Egypt's BRICS membership: Boosting trade, investment, and access to strategic commodities
    India welcomes Egypt’s BRICS membership: Boosting trade, investment, and access to strategic commodities
    September 11, 2023
    The box office is not a measure of success: Basma Hassan
    The box office is not a measure of success: Basma
    September 6, 2023
  • Culture
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
Reading: Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed faces fresh discord as ex-allies revolt
Share
Notification
Latest News
Madbouly discusses ways to boost metallurgical industries 
Madbouly discusses ways to boost metallurgical industries 
Business
FRA to launch futures contracts trading in derivatives market
FRA to launch futures contracts trading in derivatives market
Business
Defence Minister meets NATO Military Committee chief
Defence Minister meets NATO Military Committee chief
Egypt Politics
We work with Tax Authority to control prices, support consumers: Philip Morris Misr
We work with Tax Authority to control prices, support consumers: Philip Morris Misr
Business
Mahmoud Mohieldin says global finance reform needed for just green transitions
Arab region has great opportunities to harness digitalisation, AI in making progress in implementing climate action: Mahmoud Mohieldin
Business
Aa
Aa
DailynewsegyptDailynewsegypt
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Interviews
  • Culture
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Interviews
  • Culture
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
Have an existing account? Sign In
Follow US
  • Advertise
© 2023 DNE News. All Rights Reserved.
Dailynewsegypt > Blog > Politics > Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed faces fresh discord as ex-allies revolt
PoliticsRegion

Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed faces fresh discord as ex-allies revolt

Islam Gabr
Last updated: 2022/06/20 at 1:59 AM
By Islam Gabr 7 Min Read
Share
Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed faces fresh discord as ex-allies revolt
SHARE

Since the May ceasefire between Ethiopia’s conflicting parties, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has faced internal challenges from his one-time supporters in the northern Amhara region, with civilians suffering the impact of violence between the waring camps.

Oromo and Amhara militants battle on the western frontier. Brutality in west Oromia usually tracks a typical routine. After protection squads flee from a location, militants strike civilians. Then, two starkly different stories are set ahead about who is responsible.

Amhara activists claim that Amhara militias are battling to protect their community in response to Oromo Liberation Army’s (OLA) horrors against Amhara civilians.

Sometimes, they outright repudiate the involvement of Amhara militants. Some Amhara rival parties even incriminate the federal government and the Oromo branch of the Prosperity Party in the slayings of Amharas.

Oromo superpatriots say the OLA’s armed struggle is being waged to maintain the region’s autonomy from a repressive political strategy. Amhara militias and the federal army attacks are primarily against Oromo civilians.

OLA’s top chief Kumsa Dirriba denies that his military conducts raids on civilians and has stated that the Ethiopian government is “solely responsible” for the slayings of Amhara civilians in western Oromia.

The continuous brutality in West Oromia is caused by a historical and ideological faultline in Ethiopian politics, One that puts a variety of Ethiopian and Amhara nationalisms against Oromo nationalism.

Oromo nationalists depict Oromos as dominated by the continuing legacy of muggy political procedures initiated during Ethiopia’s imperial era. Meanwhile, analysts downplay the Oromo marginalization history and maintain that the imperial strategy was effectively cancelled in 1974.

The brutality happened between the two communities in the 1990s, including when Oromo people reportedly struck Amhara “homesteaders” who were presented to the area in the nineteenth century by the central government to pacify Oromia.

A wave of protests that started in Oromia in 2014 and distributed to Amhara produced an association between the Illuminati within the two communities that eventually ended the supremacy of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the ruling coalition.

Abiy Ahmed climbed to power in April 2018 owing to the tactical “Oromara” alliance that collapsed soon after that. Resurgent tensions resulted from deep ideological fissures reflecting the modern iteration of an age-old violent elite power struggle.

Continuing dissatisfaction grew in Oromia after elections were delayed, the resistance was shut out of decision-making procedures, and the perception emerged that Abiy planned to impose a centralized and unitarist governance system by embracing Amhara elites.

Amhara’s squads and a racial militia known as Fano battled against revolutionaries from neighbouring Tigray alongside federal troops. The heads of the latter were earlier the government’s outstanding power agent before being sidelined by Abiy. The clash has claimed thousands of lives since it erupted in January 2021.

The end of hostilities has angered some in Amhara, which has sparred with Tigray for control over adjoining territory. Some of its leaders argue that the government should have pursued an outright victory. They include Brigadier Tefera Mamo, the commander of Amhara’s Special Forces, who was arrested after criticizing Abiy in a television interview.

The Amhara Regional State Supreme Court has ordered the release of the former commander of the state’s Special Forces, Gen. Tefera Mamo, on bail of 30,000 birrs.

The court ruled that the county police did not provide credible information that made the suspect risky if granted bail. Prosecutors said they wanted to charge the suspect with terrorism and asked that the suspect not be granted bail.

According to state media, more than 4,000 people, including many journalists, have also been detained in Amhara. The crackdown could be risky for Abiy, who has leaned heavily on Amhara for political and military support during the war. The Amhara Special Forces and Fano played vital roles, annexing Western Tigray and preventing the rebels from opening supply channels with neighbouring Sudan.

Abiy is pushing “to reassert his rule over parties that oppose his peacemaking” strategy toward the Tigrayans, said Mehdi Labzaé, a French sociologist who researches the Amhara nationalist movements and has witnessed growing resistance to the federal government in the region.

As an independent media agency in Amhara, the NISIR International Broadcasting Co. stated the protection forces had captured four of its journalists. They also jailed many others, including community leaders and scholars, without following the lawful due procedure in a statement.

Fano has launched a recruitment campaign in northern Ethiopia in recent months. There have been several hits between its fellows and government troopers. In February, the militia struck a detention camp in the Amhara town of Nefas Mewcha, where some members were being kept, flashing some fiercest battle.

“There are thousands of Fano militants presently under my control, and shortly they will shift into millions,” said Zemene Kase, a senior Fano member, in a recent interview. “We don’t believe the Amhara police forces or federal army as opposing. But some individuals belong to the Fano who do.”

Abiy’s desire to remain in power is more important to him than anything, even if he will lose his one-time supporters’ leaders in the northern Amhara region. His voyage from beloved of the global and local community to condemnation has been fast. Ethiopian civilians and children who suffer attacks and hunger are the only losers of these struggles between all these heinous parties looking for power.

You Might Also Like

Defence Minister meets NATO Military Committee chief

Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq discuss economic, political cooperation in New York

Al-Sisi highlights opportunities for mutual benefit with China

Egypt, India affirm their strategic partnership, discuss regional issues

Pope Francis denounces ‘invasion’ rhetoric on migrants

TAGGED: Abiy Ahmed, ethiopia
Share this Article
Facebook Twitter Email Print
Previous Article China seeks to harmonise Belt and Road Initiative with Egypt’s 2030 Vision China seeks to harmonise Belt and Road Initiative with Egypt’s 2030 Vision
Next Article Libyan negotiations in Egypt last chance for settlement to elections: analysts Libyan negotiations in Egypt last chance for settlement to elections: analysts
Ad image
Ad image

Stay Connected

Facebook Like
Twitter Follow
Instagram Follow
Youtube Subscribe

Latest News

Madbouly discusses ways to boost metallurgical industries 
Madbouly discusses ways to boost metallurgical industries 
Business
FRA to launch futures contracts trading in derivatives market
FRA to launch futures contracts trading in derivatives market
Business
Defence Minister meets NATO Military Committee chief
Defence Minister meets NATO Military Committee chief
Egypt Politics
We work with Tax Authority to control prices, support consumers: Philip Morris Misr
We work with Tax Authority to control prices, support consumers: Philip Morris Misr
Business
//
Egypt’s only independent daily newspaper in English. Discuss the country’s latest with the paper’s reporters, editors, and other readers.

Quick Link

  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Interviews
  • Culture
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle

Sign Up for Our Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly!

© 2023 DNE News. All Rights Reserved.

Join Us!

Subscribe to our newsletter and never miss our latest news, podcasts etc..

Zero spam, Unsubscribe at any time.

Removed from reading list

Undo
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Lost your password?