Violent Reckoning for Ethiopia’s Nobel Laureate Leader

Targeted killings, lethal road protests, a postponed election and rising regional tensions over management of the Nile river are destabilizing Ethiopia, posing a stern problem to the reformist chief of Africa’s second-most populous nation only a 12 months after he gained the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed surprised world leaders when he ended a 20-year battle with neighboring Eritrea and pledged to interrupt open one of many continent’s most entrenched one-party states inside months of taking workplace in 2018. He freed hundreds…