The long read: When Abiy Ahmed took power in Ethiopia, he was feted at home and abroad as a great unifier and reformer. Two years later, terrible violence was raging. How did people get him so wrong?
  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    “Civil war” is a ridiculously polite way of putting it. It’s an attempted genocide.

    He got the Peace Prize for his alliance with Eritrea, the North Korea of Africa.

    He them teamed up with Eritrea to genocide some of his own countrymen in north Ethiopia.