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By Metta-Alem Sinishaw Ethiopian Internal Instability and the Implication for the Horn Unresolved contestation over constitutional design and deeply entrenched zero-sum national and regional politics is exasperating human sufferings and Ethiopian fragmentation. Despite initial optimism for liberalization, the incumbent federal government faces multi-front insurgencies, economic distress, and legitimacy deficit which collectively threatens national survival. Intensifying insurgencies are only manifestations of a much deeper crisis that requires political reimagination. Ethiopia’s internal political harmony, its quest for access to the Red Sea, and dispute with Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) are interconnected. As the geographic, demographic, and military center of the

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