Ethiopia: A Geopolitical Time Bomb in the Making

Published by A. Gagaridis in Publication · 28 February 2018
Tags: ethiopia, climate, change, rwanda, genocide, civil, war, tigrayan, ormomo, amhara

Hello again!

Another of my articles has been published on Geopolitical Monitor!

Ethiopia is a vast and populated country with opportunities as well as challenges to face. But a combinaton of factors hamper its perspectives of future development. In particular, the interaction between ethnic divisions, economic inequalities and climate change make of it a "geopolitical time bomb" preparing to explode.

If this happened, the whole country would plunge into instability, civil war and maybe even genocide; with detrimental consequences for the population, for the region and even beyond; as a new large mass of refugees would flow towards Europe, thus reopening the immigration crisis the continent has been facing.

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Photo copyright: Jonathan Alpeyrie, modified, Wikicommons.

P.S. This post was actually written on March 20, because for a series of reasons I did not put it online immediatly after the article's publication on February 28. My apologies :-)

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