For now, order appears to have returned, in both Addis and Bahir Dar, seat of the Amhara regional government. The killings highlight the volatility at the heart of the country’s political system despite the enormous promise of the 2018 transition. But his appointment drove the EPRDF parties further apart, worsening the Amhara-Tigrayan territorial dispute and fuelling Amhara-Oromo tensions. The EPRDF parties will have to resolve differences over sharing federal power, internal borders and regional autonomy. The June 22 assassinations have shaken that transition but, if prudence and precaution prevail, they need not derail it.

Source: Ethiopian News June 25, 2019 16:07 UTC