@addisstandardeng · Post #21865 · 03/27/2026, 03:38 PM
#In_Depth_Analysis: The #Hormuz Entanglement: Why #Ethiopia’s fuel crisis is a perfect storm of #war, #graft, and #reform While the immediate catalyst appears to be the high-stakes military escalation between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, a deeper look reveals that Ethiopia’s fuel misery is a complex entanglement. It is a “perfect storm” where geopolitical vulnerability, a domestic system rotting from within, and a painful macroeconomic experiment have collided to leave 120 million people running on empty. Until the govt can clean its own house, root out the “senior decision-makers” profiting from the black market, and navigate the treacherous waters of Middle Eastern diplomacy, the accounts emerging from #Gonder to #Jimma to #Ambo, and from #Hawassa to #Bishoftu and #Mekelle, point to an Ethiopia that will remain running on empty. It will be a country “stalled at the intersection of a distant war it cannot control and a local crisis of governance it has yet to master”... https://addisstandard.com/?p=56099