... interests. That’s not the case with this proposed deal, however, hence why those who criticize its spirit are exposing their zero-sum divide-and-rule regional hegemonic interests.
No country’s legitimate interests are threatened by the proposed joint Ethiopian-Russian naval base in Djibouti, those two offering Djibouti stakes in their companies, Russia also offering it privileged agricultural and oil prices, nor by Djibouti serving as the terminal point of a South Sudanese pipeline. Only those obsessed with ...
Interview with Alemayehu Tegenu Aargau, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Moscow
The Russian International Affairs Council invited Ethiopia’s ambassador to Russia, His Excellency Alemayehu Tegenu Aargau, to talk about the current developments taking place in his home country, outlining the prospects of bilateral relations between Moscow and Addis-Ababa.
The questions for the interview have been prepared ...
... of Oromia, the Tigrinya clan lost its political and economic dominance to the Oromo bloc and the so-called southern peoples. Importantly, the Oromo are predominantly Muslim and polytheistic, so they do not care about the common Christian heritage of Russia and Ethiopia. Nor do they care about the past relations between the Russian and Ethiopian empires (not just the first hospital, but also Pushkin!): under the Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Empire, the Oromo were at the lowest rank of the social hierarchy; the teaching ...
