Next Africa: Ethiopia’s Experiment in Democracy

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy AhmedPhotographer: Ashraf Shalzy/AFP/Getty Images

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Ethiopian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed is discovering the risk of encouraging more democracy after decades of repression: people might take you up on it.