EIEP Benishangul Gumuz: Interview with Tsegaye Birhanu

09/10/21 • 19 min

In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Juweria Ali asks Tsegaye Birhanu, a former political science lecturer at Assosa University in Benishangul Gumuz and a Peace and Development Work Masters degree student at Linnaeus University in Sweden, to reflect on issues raised in the EIEP's 'EIEP: Marginalization and persecution in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz'' and his understanding of political dynamics in Benishangul Gumuz region. He did not author the EIEP Benishangul Gumuz article but he has previously published on Ethiopia Insight. Tsegaye was born in Metekel and worked in Benishangul-Gumuz for almost a decade.

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In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Martha Kuwe Kumsa asks Ermias Tasfaye, Ethiopia Insight administrator and reporter focused primarily on Oromia, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP's 'EIEP: Prosperity Party’s win is a loss for Oromia—and Ethiopia'.

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Adem K. Abebe: A Blueprint for Peace in Ethiopia?

Host Emmanuel Yirdaw talks to Adem Kassie Abebe, a constitutional expert at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and a regular commentator on Ethiopian politics.
The conversation, which was recorded on 3 December, is structured around some of the ideas Adem presented in his 12 November article for Foreign Policy entitled A Blueprint for Peace in Ethiopia.
The discussion touches on the debate around humanitarian access to Tigray, how to deal with Amhara region's takeover of territory that used to be administered as part of Tigray, achieving mutual recognition between the federal and Tigray governments, and a number of other related issues.