Without much planning, I happened to end up in Ethiopia in 2018, just a few months after Abiy was elected prime minister. It was an unusual experience.

In Addis Ababa the feeling was.. electric. People were so hopeful and happy. Everyone was talking to me about Abiy and how everything was changing.

Then I traveled around the country, further and further north. I visited Tigray - not the place where the massacre happened, but very close by. Not the church in the articles, but many like it.

And then (long story) I had an opportunity to visit a military camp at the Ethiopia/Eritrea border... and then you start to realize how complicated everything is. Ethiopia has a border on Google Maps, but that doesn't mean the people in the north see things the same was as in Addis Ababa.

What is a national border anyway if you define yourself more by your tribe than your so called nation?

The people in Ethiopia are fantastic and I hope some peace can come eventually.