![A member of the Amhara Special Forces watches on at the border crossing with Eritrea while where an Imperial Ethiopian flag waves, in Humera, Ethiopia, on November 22, 2020. [Eduardo Soteras/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8VP6MA.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Tigray is the last frontier in a battle over the character of the Ethiopian state.
![Ethiopian musician Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was assassinated on June 29 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [File: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9cdfae01517646e4b6ba32ecdda6aa41_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Haacaaluu inspired a whole generation of Oromos to fight for their rights. His tragic death is an incalculable loss.
![Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a session with the members of the Parliament in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 22, 2019. [Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/621fe53d40c0451b922bc9576d31a3f0_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The new pan-Ethiopian party created to replace the EPRDF coalition risks bringing the country to the edge of an abyss.
![A picture of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is displayed at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, October 11, 2019 [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/40e1037ab88b4ed38f1c37887295ded1_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The prize not only acknowledges the Ethiopian prime minister’s commitment to peace, but encourages him to do more.
![Ethiopia celebrates the Victory of Adwa every year on March 1 [File: Mohammed Abdu Abdulbaqi/Anadolu Agency]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/e951670a059749b58890b75dbd466c53_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Victory of Adwa has been a very divisive issue in Ethiopia for decades. It’s time to change that.
![PM Abiy Ahmed's cabinet recently approved a draft legislation on the establishment of a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission in Ethiopia [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/64dd0bd25cf24773ba183977515a425d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Ethiopia needs both accountability and reconciliation to come to terms with its violent and divisive past.
![Abiy Ahmed's gender balanced cabinet has a tremendous transformative potential to end Ethiopian women's experience of invisibility and the silencing of their voice and capacity, writes Allo [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/aa33427b0ec740fd82f90ebd01ad7e3f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Ethiopia’s gender balanced cabinet is sending women around the country a clear message: the patriarchy can be beaten.
![South Sudanese civilians celebrate the signing of a power sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, in Juba, South Sudan, August 5, 2018 [Samir Bol/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/202bfe33542e43199110a1b2fca70d89_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
But the complete removal of accountability and justice from the agenda is not the answer.
![Two sitting heads of states - Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya - have been indicted by the ICC in the past. Charges against Kenyatta have since been dropped [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/a5ee450da51948eba2d4b13d82354e82_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
European imperial values laid the foundation of the ICC and have caused its many problems.
![Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed acknowledged torture by state security forces in a speech at the Ethiopian Parliament on June 18 [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/9d91eff92d164c088848b9726ee182bc_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed showed remarkable courage in admitting the practise of state sanctioned torture.