Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen from Amhara wants a peaceful solution...

There is no consensus between Abiy and his Amhara deputy Demeke Mekonnen on how to proceed...

Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen will lead a seven-member team in upcoming peace talks aimed at resolving the conflict in Tigray province...

His deputy Demeke Mekonnen an Amhara may even be among them...

A foreign ministry delegation – led by Grum Abay chief advisor to Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen and by Abiy's foreign policy advisor Girma Temesgen – was also in Washington...

Abiy himself was elected president of the party with 1 480 votes; Adem Farah Speaker of the House of Federation – the upper house of parliament – got 1 330 votes to become first vice-president; and Demeke Mekonnen Deputy Prime Minister 950 votes as a second vice-president...

They had included four leading Amharas: Demeke Mekonnen Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Gedu Andargachew current National Security Adviser; Agegnehu Teshager president of the Amhara region; and Temesgen Tiruneh Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Service; and a similar group of Oromos Shimelis Abdisa Oromo region president; Fekadu Tesema head of the Oromo PP; Adanech Abebe mayor of Addis Ababa; and Addisu Arega former head of the Oromo Democratic Party Central Committee office...

Antony Blinken the US Secretary of State visited Nairobi in mid-November after talks in Addis Ababa with Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen...

A joint federal and regional law enforcement forum in Bahir Dar capital of the Amhara region on 29 October attended byAbiy and his deputy Demeke Mekonnen called for an 'all-out civil war'...

Most previous holders of the key portfolios remain in place including Demeke Mekonnen who has kept his positions of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (AC Vol 62 No 16 Addis tries to rewrite the script)...