NAIROBI – Suddenly Ethiopia appears on the brink of civil war, threatening the stability of one of the world’s most strategic regions, the Horn of Africa, and the fracturing of one of Africa’s most powerful and populous countries.But the crisis in Ethiopia, a key U.S.
security ally, has been building for months, and “it has been like watching a train crash in slow motion,” Dino Mahtani with the International Crisis Group said this week.