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Like a thriller: Inside the Ethiopian Boiling Pot

Photo by Rookie Ape from Unsplash Like in the best tradition of mystery writing, what happened last June in Ethiopia remains wrapped in a steam of fragmentary news and contradictory information. In less than 48 hours a round of attacks and assassinations in the Ahmara region have shocked the country and revived ethnic hostilities while the governmental press reported the killing of General Asamnew Tsige as the epilogue of a failed coup. But what happened really? And was there really...