Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War? After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/did-a-nobel-peace-laureate-stoke-a-civil-war In “Crabs in a Bucket,” a forthcoming book, the Somali author Nuruddin Farah likens Ethiopian politics to a…

‘Finish Them Off’: Aid Workers, Found on Battlefield, Executed by Soldiers Three employees of Doctors Without Borders set out to rescue the wounded in a war zone in northern Ethiopia. Their fate shows the treacherous path for many aid workers in conflict zones. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-aid-workers-killed.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=World%20News Hours later they vanished. The aid workers stopped answering their…