Abiy Ahmed

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's liberalisation moves such as the freeing of political prisoners and allowing exiles to return have been accompanied by a growth of ethno-nationalism...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his fresh-faced Prosperity Party (PP) are set for a tough struggle in elections despite domestic acclaim and enthusiastic international support including the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize...

Even before voting began in November's referendum on Ethiopia's tenth regional state plans were advancing to form a Sidama branch of Abiy Ahmed's new ruling party the Prosperity Party...

On 6 December the new Commission President will make her first foreign trip to Ethiopia to meet Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the head of state President Sahle-Work Zewde the only woman currently holding such a position in Africa as well as Moussa Faki Mahamat the chair of the African Union Commission...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is pushing to merge all the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's regional member organisations as well as affiliated ruling parties from other federal states into a single unit dissolving their particular national or ethnic identities...

Fortune and the five-year plan The government is set to propose two new medium-range economic plans to parliament after the elections slated for May 2020 say sources with knowledge of work in the Prime Minister's Macroeconomic Committee Abiy Ahmed's central economic policy organ...

At the Russia-Africa summit in Sochi Russia on 24 October Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed referred to 'political' talks that would not interfere with the ongoing scientific work...

That could well lead to another thumping victory particularly with charismatic Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the helm...

Some well-timed initiatives from Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed countered the support of some Gulf states for an authoritarian response to the protests...

Attention is focusing once more on last November's meeting of Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed one month after retired Brigadier-General Asaminew Tsige the leader of last month's alleged coup attempt was appointed head of Amhara's regional security...

The ADFM agreed to return after Abiy Ahmed's appeal for national reconciliation with all anti-regime movements and parties...

The simultaneous slaying of the premier of the Amhara regional state the second most populous in the federation and the Defence Force Chief of Staff on 22 June was a broadside against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the federal government...