Ethiopia Insight published on 12 March 2022 a commentary titled "Ethiopia's Stillborn National Dialogue" by Buli Edjeta, director of a research, consultancy, and training institute.
The author is highly critical of the process for establishing the National Dialogue Commission because it resulted from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's "exclusionist approach." He concludes "a satisfactory National Dialogue is highly unlikely while war is raging and major opposition leaders are sidelined or in jail."
