
<p>NAIROBI/ISTANBUL (Reuters) &#8211; Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s political slogan is “medemer” &#8211; or “coming together”. But some analysts say reforms meant to unify Ethiopia have inflamed simmering ethnic and political divisions and risk unravelling Africa’s second most populous nation.</p>



<p>Now Ethiopian unity faces its severest test yet: since Nov. 4, the military has been battling a group that once dominated the national government &#8211; the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern Tigray region.</p>



<p>The TPLF frames the conflict as a battle for the rights of Ethiopia’s 10 regions against a premier bent on centralising power. They say Abiy has discriminated against Tigrayans since he came to power and have referred to his rule as an “illegal, unitarist and personalistic dictatorship”.</p>



<p>The government denies trying to centralise control.</p>



<p>Three major decisions infuriated the TPLF, which dominated the governing coalition for nearly three decades until Abiy came to power in 2018: Abiy’s rapprochement with their arch-enemy, the nation of Eritrea; his replacement of an ethnically based coalition with a new national party; and the postponement of national elections.Each sparked bitter recriminations from the TPLF. The ensuing conflict has sent ripples through the region.</p>



<p>Ethiopia, a regional heavyweight, is home to the African Union; its security forces serve in peacekeeping missions in Somalia and South Sudan and work alongside Western allies against Islamist militants.Leenco Lata, a veteran opposition leader, said the federal system is under pressure from both sides as debate polarises between supporters of closer unity or separation. Abiy says he’s tried to work with the TPLF, but has been repeatedly rebuffed; his office published a timeline of such attempts this week.</p>



<p>The government says Tigrayan forces started the conflict by attacking federal troops stationed there. The TPLF have described the attack as a pre-emptive strike.</p>



<p>Underlying the political struggle are long-standing rivalries between Ethiopia’s 80-plus ethnic groups. Many regional leaders see Abiy’s democratic reforms as a chance to grab more power for their own group. Zemelak Ayele, a professor at Addis Ababa University, said even though citizens resented the previous repression, the TPLF might have grudging support from some regional leaders who consider it a bulwark against a more centralised government.”Even those who are ardent detractors of TPLF are not necessarily ardent supporters of the war (in Tigray),” he said. “Some might feel the federal system might be in danger if the TPLF is out of the picture.”</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-an-old-enmity-and-a-new-peace">AN OLD ENMITY AND A NEW PEACE</h2>



<p>The secretive, highly militarised nation of Eritrea &#8211; often nicknamed “Africa’s North Korea” &#8211; lies along Ethiopia’s northern border. Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia in 1991 following three decades of war. Conflict over a border dispute broke out again from 1998-2000; tens of thousands died.</p>



<p>The TPLF spearheaded that war. They regard Eritrea as an arch-enemy.</p>



<p>Months after Abiy came to power, he signed a peace deal with Eritrea in 2018 and was subsequently awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Regular visits began between Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, drawing accusations from the TPLF that Abiy was “serving as a vehicle for Isaias’s desire to extract a pound of flesh for perceived wrongs”.</p>



<p>Billene Seyoum, Abiy’s spokeswoman, said the TPLF was trying to “internationalise the conflict” and that intelligence reports suggested the TPLF had been manufacturing Eritrean and Ethiopian army uniforms.</p>



<p>The TPLF has fired missiles at its capital Asmara and says Eritrea is now fighting alongside Ethiopian troops in Tigray, which Ethiopia denies.</p>



<p>Reuters has not been able to reach the Eritrean government for comment for two weeks.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-prosperity-party">THE PROSPERITY PARTY</h2>



<p>After the Eritrea treaty, Abiy consolidated domestically. Last year he replaced Ethiopia’s old ruling coalition, made up of four ethnically based parties, with a single pan-Ethiopian party. Out of the four, only the TPLF refused to join.</p>



<p>Abiy underestimated the TPLF’s bitterness at losing power, said one Ethiopian academic.</p>



<p>“It is a bitter divorce and Abiy did not have a plan for a peaceful exit for TPLF,” the academic said, speaking anonymously to avoid angering the government.</p>



<p>Inflammatory rhetoric on both sides made Tigrayan people feel under siege, boosting support for the TPLF, he said.</p>



<p>Alex de Waal, a professor at Tufts University, said launching the new party so quickly may have been a miscalculation: the old coalition had become a rare forum for negotiation in a nation where political dissent often meant prison.</p>



<p>But Abiy was in a hurry. National elections were due in August 2020 and his new party needed to compete against a plethora of new ethnically based groups.</p>



<p>Then the pandemic arrived.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">DELAYED ELECTIONS</h2>



<p>The government postponed elections. Many opposition groups reluctantly agreed, but not the TPLF. They held their regional elections in September anyway. Both sides accused each other of ignoring the constitution.</p>



<p>The TPLF won by a landslide. The House of Federation, a legislative body dealing with constitutional matters, voted to cut Tigray’s budget.</p>



<p>On Oct. 29, Tigrayan forces refused to let an Ethiopian general who flew into the regional airport leave to take up his command in the capital Mekelle.</p>



<p>On Nov. 4, the government reported Tigrayan soldiers attacked a base in Dansha.</p>



<p>The conflict had begun.</p>



<p>Reporting by Katharine Houreld in Nairobi and Maggie Fick in Istanbul; Editing by Alexandra Zavis and Giles Elgood</p>


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<p>More than eight thousand Ethiopians have reportedly fled into Sudan as fight between the national and provincial forces intensifies in the Tigray region. Political Analyst, Samuel Getachew joins CNBC Africa for more on the economic impact of the crisis.</p>


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<p>The Ethiopian government has continued its military action in the northern Tigray region over the past few days, with reports of air strikes on targeted facilities. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has replaced the country’s military Chief and reshuffled the leadership of other security branches. Joining CNBC Africa for the latest Sub-Saharan Africa update is Ridle Markus, Africa Strategist at Absa Corporate &#038; Investment Banking.</p>


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<p>In Ethiopia, the government announced suspension of the planned partial privatization of national carrier Ethiopian Airlines.</p>


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<p>During a recent meeting between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Egyptian Counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, it’s been reported that the two have agreed to work closely on the sensitive issue of the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. CNBC Africa spoke to International Relations Expert, Emery Nzirabatinya for his thoughts on how effective this could potentially be and what it could possibly mean for the East African Community.</p>


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<p>Concerned at the inefficiencies that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed in Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced that the country is increasing its health budget by 46 per cent to respond. Economic Analyst, Samuel Getachew joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>Close to $900 million has been allocated by the government of Ethiopia to address food security in the country. According to the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, $635 million has been allotted for emergency food distribution for some 15 million vulnerable people and the remaining almost $300 million will be in support of the agricultural sector. Analyst, Samuel Getachew joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>Ethiopian Airlines has unveiled a new terminal at Bole International Airport, making it the largest gateway to Africa. The airport now has a capacity of 22 million passengers annually. At the same time, the country’s Ministry of Health announced that the country will start manufacturing its own COVID-19 test kits with China’s help. And Ethiopia has received about $14.85 million grant from the global partnership for education to boost its response to disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Economic Analyst, Samuel Getachew, joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>Egypt decided to withdraw from the latest round of tripartite negotiations with Ethiopia over its multi-billion-dollar dam on the Blue Nile for internal consultations. Mikael Arage, Political and Economic Analyst joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Egypt withdraws from latest dam talks for internal consultations

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<p>Ethiopia has announced the first-year target for filling the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam on the River Nile has been reached. The announcement came as the country agreed to resume talks with Egypt and Sudan over the dam. CNBC Africa spoke to Political &#038; Economic Analyst, Mikael Arage for more.</p>


Ethiopia says it has reached first-year target for Renaissance dam


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<p>Ethiopia’s Water Minister Seleshi Bekele confirmed on Wednesday, July 15, that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has started to fill.</p>



<p>He tweeted: “The inflow into the reservoir due to heavy rainfall and runoff exceeded the outflow and created natural pooling. This continues until overflow is triggered soon.”</p>



<p>He repeated this line to the state broadcaster, saying that the reservoir was filling “in line with the natural process” and that “[t]he construction of the dam and the filling of the water go hand in hand&#8221;.</p>



<p>Satellite images show that the reservoir behind the almost completed dam wall is starting to fill, but Mr Bekele failed to address the question of whether or not the country closed the dam’s culverts.</p>



<p>His pronouncements followed a breakdown in African Union (AU) mediated talks – involving Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan – on Tuesday, July 14, about the filling and operation of the GERD.</p>



<p>According to experts, the current stage of construction on the dam wall means that water will inevitably back up until the reservoir reaches its low point. The dam – with a mammoth capacity of 74 billion cubic metres (bcm) – is estimated to retain 4.9 bcm in 2020, with another 13.5 bcm to be retained the following year.</p>



<p>The total annual flow of the Blue Nile – the main tributary to the Nile – is about 49 bcm.</p>



<p>One of the main obstacles to reaching an agreement has been the schedule for filling the dam: Ethiopia proposes five to seven years and Egypt insists on 12 to 20 years.</p>



<p>Egypt and Sudan want a dispute resolution mechanism built into the agreement as well as assurances about water flows during times of drought.</p>



<p>Cairo has accused Addis Ababa of abandoning the 2015 Declaration of Principles, one of which is that the dam should not be filled without an agreement being in place.</p>



<p>The GERD is set to become the continent’s largest hydroelectric project and is expected to generate 6,000 MW of electricity per year, once fully operational, in a country which currently has low levels of electrification. It is central to Ethiopia’s developmental aspirations and the project has created a great deal of national pride, both due to its scale and ambition but also due to the way in which the country opted to finance the mega-project, making using of mostly domestic financing.</p>



<p>The confrontation with Egypt, specifically, has boosted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s standing domestically, with the country seen to be standing up to its northern counterpart and, following its refusal to sign a US-sponsored agreement in Washington DC in February, its powerful allies.</p>



<p>With Ethiopia riven by ethnic tensions and deadly communal violence sparked by the targeted killing of prominent musician and ethnic rights activist, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, in the capital on June 29, Mr Abiy will probably not mind the diplomatic spat with Egypt at a time when his pan-Ethiopian project is being threatened by internecine conflict.</p>



<p>Mr Abiy is also dealing with the political uncertainty created by Parliament’s decision to postpone the country’s general elections to “nine to 12 months after the coronavirus is deemed not to be a public health concern&#8221;, along with an extension of the prime minister’s term.</p>



<p>Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi finds himself in a very different position. Cairo is being made to look quite impotent as Ethiopia presents the filling of the GERD as fait accompli.</p>



<p>We previously said that their decision to proceed unilaterally would increase regional tensions and give rise to significant sabre-rattling from the parties involved. However, we said we did not expect the dispute to escalate into a military confrontation, despite some inflammatory comments from both Egyptian and Ethiopian officials, and we stand by that assessment.</p>



<p>It should be noted that Egypt has a large and sophisticated military – receiving significant military aid from the US – and that military figures play a crucial role in the government.</p>



<p>Specifically, Egypt has a modern and well-equipped air force. It does not possess strategic long-range bombers or long-range ballistic missile capacity; nevertheless, Ethiopia reportedly deployed anti-aircraft missiles in the vicinity of the Renaissance Dam in May in what was seen as a symbolic rather than strategic move.</p>



<p>The filling of the GERD without an agreement in place was not entirely unexpected and Ethiopian officials made it known that it would happen with the arrival of the rainy season.</p>



<p>Previous talks sponsored by the US and World Bank proved unsuccessful, partly due to Ethiopia’s perception that Egypt’s close ties to the US made Washington a biased arbiter.</p>



<p>It had been hoped that AU-brokered talks would deliver an agreement, and the lack of progress in that respect is concerning.</p>



<p>Egypt has also approached the UN Security Council to pressure Ethiopia, resulting in angry exchanges between ambassadors.</p>



<p>Over the short to medium term, regional tensions will remain heightened and diplomatic efforts are sure to continue. More provocative statements by officials from the affected countries are also expected, making efforts to reach an agreement all the more difficult.</p>



<p><em>Louw Nel – Political Analyst</em></p>


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<p>ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) &#8211; Long after the funding for his project was frozen, Bilal Endris has kept a lonely watch over cemeteries in Ethiopia’s capital by slipping cash to gravediggers to alert his team to any sudden spikes in burials.Older tombstones are seen at the Protestant and Catholic cemetery, open for burials amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wingate, North of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 29, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri</p>



<p>In a nation where fewer than 2% of deaths are registered, an increase in burials may be one of the first signs that a killer disease is on the loose.</p>



<p>The program was set up to monitor deaths related to HIV/AIDS a decade ago. Now doctor Bilal monitors for a spike in fatalities linked to COVID-19.</p>



<p>He has yet to see one, but projects like his are being set up in other African countries where many deaths go unrecorded, making it hard to assess the scale of a disease. In some cases, nations are dusting off programs set up during Ebola outbreaks.</p>



<p>Bilal himself has secured additional funding to restore the program to all 73 of Addis Ababa’s cemeteries from just 10 now.</p>



<p>Only eight countries in Africa &#8211; Algeria, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, and South Africa &#8211; record more than 75% of deaths, according to the United Nations.</p>



<p>In other regions, where official data is readily available, researchers have used the number of deaths from all causes that exceed the average for the time of year to help gauge the number linked to the coronavirus pandemic.</p>



<p>“In Ethiopia and everywhere across Africa &#8230; we go blind.” Bilal told Reuters. “I wanted to turn the health care system into one based on evidence.”</p>



<p>In the capital Addis Ababa, less than 20% of deaths occur in hospitals, Bilal said, so monitoring deaths requires talking to community leaders and burial grounds.</p>



<p>In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, media reports citing gravediggers alerted authorities to an undetected COVID-19 outbreak in the northern city of Kano in April, when deaths surged from a daily average of 11 to 43.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">COUNTING THE DEAD</h3>



<p>Bilal’s project began tracking burials at all graveyards in Addis Ababa a decade ago.</p>



<p>But in 2018, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) froze its funding, as the country had started using other methods to track HIV mortality, according to a CDC spokeswoman.</p>



<p>Bilal scaled back his surveillance to 10 cemeteries and began working for free, paying sources with a tiny grant from Addis Ababa University &#8211; until May.</p>



<p>City officials called him for a meeting, desperate to know whether COVID-19 was cutting swathes through their city, he said. The Ministry of Health did not respond to requests for comment.</p>



<p>Although official figures are still low &#8211; 7,650 confirmed cases and 127 deaths as of Sunday night &#8211; Ethiopia’s outbreak is accelerating. The university has now given Bilal enough support to restart the program in all 73 graveyards.</p>



<p>“It used to be funded by the CDC but now it is funded by Addis Ababa University as everyone, including the government, thinks the program is very important,” said Dr Wondwossen Amogne, an associate professor in infectious diseases at Addis Ababa University and director of research at the university’s Black Lion Hospital.</p>



<p>Health minister Lia Tadesse confirmed the study was being used by the government to monitor any spikes in death.</p>



<p>As a separate initiative, New York-based public health initiative Resolve to Save Lives is working with five other African nations to set up similar programs, including Rwanda and Senegal. The other three don’t want to be named.Slideshow&nbsp;(4 Images)</p>



<p>They will establish the usual death rate by interviewing community leaders, then watch for spikes.</p>



<p>Deciding whether any excess deaths are due to COVID-19 could be tricky, however. People with other diseases are avoiding hospitals for fear of catching the virus, health officials say.</p>



<p>Bilal’s team has begun asking families at burials whether the dead had any possible COVID-19 symptoms, such as a cough or a fever.</p>


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