Addis Abeba As a Pawn of Manufactured Controversy for Emotional Mobilization

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The status of federal cities was among the agenda items at the ruling party's political convention, described as the Ethiopian National Dialogue Conference, which concluded on 22 August, 2026, after forty days of deliberations. When the issue was taken up, the Addis Abeba case triggered an intra-ruling-party brouhaha over the city's "ownership," even though the discussion was supposed to focus on administrative status. What began as a specific subject of discussion among the participants quickly