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If interested in #African politics, the balance between party and leadership, and efforts towards stable leadership in #Senegal, read this piece!
📝 Have you read our latest analysis?
As tensions deepen between President Faye and his former ally Ousmane Sonko, what does the growing political divide mean for Senegal’s ambitious reform agenda?
Read Abdou Khadre Diop’s analysis of the challenges facing reform at a pivotal moment for Senegal’s democracy: buff.ly/Srh5dOL
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🗳️ Can South Sudan’s next elections bring stability, or deepen the crisis?
Our brief examines how constitutional and governance reforms could help address persistent instability and support a more sustainable political transition in the country: buff.ly/k8Ga3mT
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Planned #elections in #SouthSudan are presented as necessary, but without targeted $constitutional adjustments, they risk being not only insufficient but also $destabilizing.
Read my policy brief for more!
@CHR_HumanRights @miamingi @ANCL_RADC @_AfricanUnion
Apr 15
🗳️ Can South Sudan’s next elections bring stability, or deepen the crisis?
Our new brief by Adem Kassie Abebe (@AdamAbebe) examines how targeted constitutional and governance reforms could help address persistent instability and support a more sustainable political transition in the country.
Read more: buff.ly/k8Ga3mT
@Int_IDEA, @Peace_Rep_, @UoELawSchool
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Adem Kassie Abebe (Dr) retweeted
3 Dec 2025
My latest piece problematizes the AU's neglect of undemocratic elections as a form of an unconstitutional change of government, with Tanzania's recent elections as a case study. Inspired by excellent work done by @ChidiOdinkalu & @AdamAbebe on the subject verfassungsblog.de/african-u…
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5 Jun 2025
Interested in understanding #constitution-al change in #Africa? Happy to share my article which is now officially out
Including for #Ethiopia-ns, as constitutional change through #referendum, outside of the regular amendment process, appears a possibility
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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You don't seem to understand the bigger problem - the arbitrariness with which these tariffs are imposed. It is 10% on Eth now. Could be 50% tomorrow. Without a level of security that deals will be respected, few will have the courage to invest, especially in troubled places.
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97% of clothing sold in the U.S. in 2024 imported from abroad.
New U.S. tariffs of up to 47% imposed on major Asian clothing exporters opens big potential opportunities for African clothing manufacturing hubs including #Ethiopia, with just 10% tariff.
We currently manufacture world-class high quality clothing in Ethiopia for the European and other markets. With President Trump’s new tariffs on Ethiopia now at just 10%, we could in the future very competitively export to the U.S. market with big price benefit on quality clothing for Americans.
Globalization and the global trading system is being completely redone by President Trump. Political leaders and businesses around the world have to adapt to this new rapidly changing reality.
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Adem Kassie Abebe (Dr) retweeted
31 Mar 2025
Great opportunity for emerging scholars working on judging and the courts
31 Mar 2025
Call for Papers! "Fresh Perspectives on Judging", a Symposium for emerging scholars in the field of judicial studies. We celebrate 5 years of our book series, Hart Studies on Judging &the Courts, edited by @efieldingd, @AndrewLynchUNSW & me.
Full details:
ucl.ac.uk/laws/call-proposal…
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27 Mar 2025
Ultimately, a society can't leave public processes to discretion of one person. Even good things– like giving poor persons houses- must be done based on rules. We should know in advance how a poor person is selected among many poor souls (otherwise, it is mere politicking)-9
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27 Mar 2025
Policy (politicians) should determine what needs to be done, while the law should guide how it should be done.
Beyond the Tigray interim president, this post is about the importance of institutions/systems (ስርአት) in place of ad hoc discretion (ዘፈቀደኝነት)! END
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27 Mar 2025
#Abiy called on Tegaru to nominate names for interim president. May be he will also seek public input on whether to keep the Mayor of Addis or presidents of the other regions :)
As expected, #TPLF has rejected this as contrary to the #Pretoria Agreement -1
27 Mar 2025
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ለትግራይ ጊዜያዊ አስተዳደር ፕሬዝዳንት ለመሾም በጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሩ ፅ/ቤት የተጠራውን የጥቆማ ጥሪ በዶ/ር ደብረጺዮን የሚመራው ሕወሓት “ተቀባይነት የለውም” አለ፡፡
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Notably, institutional choices should be based on elite dialogues, subject to broad public understanding/ support. If the ostensible resort to the public is to bypass elite dialogue, rather than discipline such dialogue, it can be dangerous - like now -8
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27 Mar 2025
The selective resort to direct public will can be seen as a sham (conscious or sub-conscious) – especially when this is done based on individual discretion (በዘፈቀደ). Ultimately, democracy is as much about the people as it is about elite dialogue - 7
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Consider also the major economic policy reforms, the move towards ethnic ‘equalisation’ of the civil service in Addis Ababa etc where the public largely had virtually no opportunities to provide inputs- 6
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27 Mar 2025
Even efforts that can potentially have public backing, while reducing public anxiety– eg Oromiffa lessons in Addis schools, ‘corridor’ devt – are often imposed top-down. Even directly affected people are given a mere days/weeks’ notice period to demolish their homes livelihoods-5
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This ostensible invocation of the popular will contrasts with the practical disregard of the public in policy/ decision making, lack of transparency and accountability - 4
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27 Mar 2025
Abiy gave in to pressure to remove Getachew, but is not willing to endorse their nominee.
Officials may claim Abiy’s call democratically empowers the people. Gedion has also indicated that the Dialogue Commission should speak with the people, not ‘self-appointed’ elites-3
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27 Mar 2025
Whatever the intention, Abiy's move will lead to same challenges as before – interim president and party leader won’t be same persons, leading to inevitable power struggles. And is arguably contrary to the Pretoria accord which calls for decision based on 'political diaogue'- 2
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Adem Kassie Abebe (Dr) retweeted
23 Mar 2025
The Ethiopian Ruler of Maharashtra
Malik Ambar, buried a five minute walk from the Ellora Caves, is of the most extraordinary figures in world history.
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The "new" #America seems to be bringing Europe together, and potentially even East Asia. There are probably similar talks in Latin Ame, and the Middle East should also find a way to live together and prosper together - especially Saudi Arabia, Iran Egypt.
reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
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14 Mar 2025
Abiy may choose war on TPLF and possibly Eritrea. This would be a huge gamble, but Abiy is driven more by will than anything else. Such would accelerate tactical alliance between TPLF and Eritrea, who could possibly support Fano to expel Amhara PP.
ዉይ ህዝቤ፣ ዉይ ሃገሬ!
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There is still a chance to prevent death n destruction: Abiy can recognize the de facto authorities and agree effective representation of Tegaru in federal institutions and fair share of federal resources, while TPLF undertakes to resolve all issues, incl on land, peacefully.END
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