Hailemariam Desalegn

After a year of deep political crisis Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has reshuffled his cabinet...

A broad vaguely worded directive establishes a committee chaired by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn who is from the EPRDF's southern wing the Southern Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Movement to impose curfews and bypass legal restrictions when dealing with unrest...

The only sacking so far has been of Urban Development and Housing Minister Mekuria Haile from the southern wing of the EPRDF led by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (AC Vol 56 No 8 Troubled road to liberalism)...

Last month in Brussels the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini assured Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn that his government would receive €97 mn...

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has made comments suggesting that all claims over ethnic autonomy have been settled...

Trucks were attacked a church was looted in the north and fighting broke out between Oromo people and Wolaita from Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's ethnic group...

In February Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn held a joint meeting to accuse Eritrea of sabotaging regional stability...

IGAD pressured Salva Kiir by sending Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Sudan's First Vice-President Bakri Hassan Salih and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to Juba beforehand...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had a sharp exchange of words with IGAD Chairman Hailemariam Desalegn after the Ethiopian Premier complained that Kampala's backing for Juba was complicating regional efforts to persuade Salva to sign the deal...

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's position in the party has strengthened thanks to the EPRDF's sweeping victory and the relative calm of the election period...