Cards will soon be reshuffled in Ethiopia *
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. Photo: Reuters History seems to be repeating itself in Ethiopia. In May 1991, the rebel forces led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) captured Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa after 15 years of struggle. The final offensive took five months. Four days after the capture of the strategic city of Dessie, 350 km north of Addis Ababa, President Mengitsu Haile Mariam resigned ; fleeing first to Nairobi, and then to Zimbabwe, where he would spend the rest of his life. A similar process is taking place today, but in an accelerated manner. This time the civil war started in November last year between the Ethiopian government and the T...