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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...

  Najla Bouden Romdhane is the Prime Minister of Tunisia. She was born on 29 June 1958 in Kairouan. She is a geologist as well as a university professor of higher education at the National Engineering School of Tunis at Tunis El Manar University. She took office on 11 October 2021. You might be wondering what is so special about this woman. Well, she is the first female Prime Minister in Tunisia and most surprisingly, the Arab world. Before becoming Prime Minister, she held senior roles at the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Mme. Romdhane participated in a $70 million World Bank-funded programme dubbed "PromEssE". The programme serves as panacea to reform and modernise university education in Tunisia. Unemployment is a major social issue prevalent in the country and as such it would help alleviate the problem faced by Tunisian graduates. Amidst the Tunisian political crisis in September last year, President Kais Saied requested Mme. Romd...