ETHIOPIA IS FRAGILE.
A year ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed began a military campaign in the Tigray region of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. This comes after he was lauded as a regional peacemaker in 2019 for receiving a Nobel Peace Prize in honour of his role in ending a long-running strife with Eritrea, a neighbouring country. He also made remarkable reforms in Ethiopia. How did this country in the Horn of Africa get here? Africa’s second most populous state can be described as fragile due to the persisting conflict rampaging the Eastern African country. Ethiopia is made up of 10 regions governed by different ethnic groups. Regional governments are mostly divided along these entrenched ethnic lines. Before Abiy became Prime Minister, the Tigray People Liberation Front (T.P.L.F), a four- party coalition ruled Ethiopia for nearly three decades. It was a period of stability and economic growth at the expense of infringing basic civil and political rights. The Tigra...