What to Know About Ethiopia’s Election

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Ethiopians go to the polls amid growing political rifts in Tigray and beyond, an Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya sparks controversy, and insurgency worsens in the Lake Chad Basin. Ethiopia’s Election Ethiopia’s election on Monday is almost certain to hand a new five-year term to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. But that victory may exacerbate the growing political rift in the country, which threatens to destabilize Africa’s second-most populous nation. Ethiopia’s electoral body suspended or canceled voting in dozens of constituencies due to what it described as “unfavourable conditions” and violent…