Ethiopia Is Headed for Chaos

Berhanu Nega, an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University, is a former member of the executive committee of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, an opposition party in Ethiopia. In 2005 he was elected mayor of Addis Ababa but was imprisoned, on treason charges, until international pressure prompted his release in July 2007. In December 2009 an Ethiopian court sentenced him, in absentia, to death.