On 24 May, Ethiopia went to the polls – a fact that might have escaped your attention. Hardly surprising since there was next to no coverage in the British press. Even the BBC no longer has a correspondent in Addis Ababa.
But perhaps there is another reason why the election in what is one of Africa’s most important countries received so little attention: it was a foregone conclusion.
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