| Description |
1 online resource (15 pages) : color map (digital, PDF file) |
| Series |
Africa briefing ; no. 89 |
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Policy briefing |
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Africa briefing ; no. 89.
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Policy briefing (International Crisis Group)
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| Contents |
Overview -- An invisible illness -- A political system centred on Meles Zenawi -- The state of the nation -- Transition : a TPLF affair -- Preventing the spread of instability -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who had not been seen in public for several months, was announced on 20 August 2012 by Ethiopian state television. The passing of the man who has been Ethiopia's epicentre for 21 years will have profound national and regional consequences. Meles engineered one-party rule in effect for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and his Tigrayan inner circle, with the complicity of other ethnic elites that were co-opted into the ruling alliance, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). The Front promised freedom, democracy and ethnic devolution but is highly centralised, tightly controls the economy and suppresses political, social, ethnic and religious liberties. In recent years, Meles had relied ever more on repression to quell growing dissent. His successor will lead a weaker regime that struggles to manage increasing unrest unless it truly implements ethnic federalism and institutes fundamental governance reform. The international community should seek to influence the transition actively because it has a major interest in the country's stability |
| Notes |
"22 August 2012." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF caption (ICG, viewed September 12, 2012) |
| Subject |
Malas Zénāwi, 1955-2012.
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| SUBJECT |
Malas Zénāwi, 1955-2012. fast (OCoLC)fst01798981 |
| Subject |
Political stability -- Ethiopia
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Political parties -- Ethiopia
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Political parties.
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Politics and government
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Political stability.
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| SUBJECT |
Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Ethiopia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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