But everybody was so amazed by the charismatic leader Abiy that these news rarely left the country. Opposition figures from different ethnic backgrounds warned about a #Balkanisation - that this nation of 100 million might break up and plunge into full scale civil war. And that #Abiy lacks the power, ruthlessness and muscle to extinguish all these simultaneous fires. 2/3

Nothing on #Amhara here, so I'll start: The Amhara are the biggest ethnic group in #Ethiopia, they number 20 Mio + ppl. And as all the other regions they have the constitutional right to set up real armies of their own – a right, #Abiy wants to take from them, as he said in April. During research in Ethiopia in the first year of #Abiy in power there were reports about skirmishes and many deaths in almost all regions. 1/2

On dirait qu'hier, c'était la journée mondiale du remaniement ministériel...

#Abiy, Premier Ministre d'#Éthiopie, a pour la première fois respecté le principe de parité dans son gouvernement

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