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GWYNNE DYER: Why peace doesn't last long in Ethiopia

Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, may have gotten a Peace Prize, but peace doesn't last long in the country

Another October is coming up, and still the Nobel Peace Prize Committee refuses to give Donald Trump his Prize. They even gave one to Barack Obama, who was Black and a Democrat and had only been in office for 20 minutes.

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Meanwhile, they ignore a man truly worthy of the Prize, a man who ended eight wars last year alone. (He said so himself.)

Unfortunately, the Prize Committee has a long record of backing the wrong person.

They gave it to Aung Sang Suu Kyi of Myanmar, who defended the Rohingya genocide: “I don’t think there is ethnic cleansing going on,” she said.

They gave it to former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who ordered the secret carpet-bombing of Cambodia: “The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

And in 2019, they gave it to Abiy Ahmed, then and still today the prime minister of Ethiopia. He promised to break the cycle of internal wars that have devastated the country since the vicious tyranny of the Marxist ‘Derg’ regime was overthrown in 1991, and probably that really was his original intention. It just hasn’t worked out that way.

Why is Ethiopia at war?

Ethiopia has........

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