Addis Ababa — The dominoes keep falling in Ethiopia, with one of the most significant crashing down. Others, however, say this misses the point about the scale of change forced on Ethiopia's political space. "The resignation of the prime minister was not in the interest of the TPLF," Awol says. Ethiopia has aped the Chinese developmental state model of providing its populace with material gains to offset curtailments of civil liberties. "It is possible to prevent them further intensifying and over-running the regime by taking bold concrete action very, very quickly that should include appointing a capable, popular prime minister with proven reformist credential."

Source: Ethiopian News March 09, 2018 09:53 UTC