Episodes

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

    Adem K. Abebe: A Blueprint for Peace in Ethiopia?
    Dec 12 2021
    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.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • EIEP Benishangul Gumuz: Interview with Tsegaye Birhanu

    EIEP Benishangul Gumuz: Interview with Tsegaye Birhanu
    Sep 10 2021
    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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    20 mins
  • EIEP Oromia: Interview with Ermias Tasfaye

    EIEP Oromia: Interview with Ermias Tasfaye
    Sep 7 2021
    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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    18 mins
  • EIEP Crosscutting: Interview with Leul Estifanos

    EIEP Crosscutting: Interview with Leul Estifanos
    Aug 31 2021
    In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Tobias Hagmann asks Leul Estifanos, an Ethiopia Insight court reporter and a law graduate of Addis Ababa University, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP's 'Reforming Ethiopia’s draconian laws amid a derailing transition'.
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    16 mins
  • EIEP SNNP: Interview with Kulle Kursha

    EIEP SNNP: Interview with Kulle Kursha
    Aug 31 2021
    In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Martha Kuwe Kumsa asks Kulle Kursha, an Ethiopian Insight reporter and analyst focused primarily on the Southern Nations and a law lecturer at Hawassa University, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP's 'A special statehood request in Ethiopia’s southwest'.
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    21 mins
  • EIEP Somali: Interview with Abdirahman Ahmed

    EIEP Somali: Interview with Abdirahman Ahmed
    Aug 19 2021
    In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Juweria B. Ali asks Abdirahman Ahmed, an assistant professor of sociology at Jigjiga University in Jijiga, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP's 'New faces, old problems: reforms, clans, and parties in Ethiopia’s Somali region'.
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    20 mins
  • EIEP Addis Abeba: Interview with Yared Tsegaye

    EIEP Addis Abeba: Interview with Yared Tsegaye
    Aug 18 2021
    In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Martha Kuwee Kumsa asks Yared Tsegaye, an Ethiopia Insight reporter based in Addis Ababa, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP's 'Pushing boundaries in Ethiopia’s contested capital'.
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    19 mins