Is Ethiopia repeating its oldest mistake?

Is Ethiopia repeating its oldest mistake? Submitted by Yunus Turhan on Thu, 10/01/2026 - 16:33 When past leaders have tried to govern from a single centre, the country's peripheries have united in opposition Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 25 September 2025 (Evgenia Novozhenina/AFP) On Ethiopia’s history has come back to haunt it. Late last month, seven armed groups - among them the Fano militia in Amhara, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Army - announced the formation of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for…