The ODP's Workneh Gebeyehu remains at the Foreign Ministry – one of six ministers from Abiy's party – while the new leader of Somali region's ruling party Ahmed Shide was named Finance Minister replacing Abraham Tekeste from the TPLF who was capable and popular with donors...
Regional shuffleAnother notable appointment was that of Ahmed Shide as government spokesman the first time an official from the Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party a party allied with the EPRDF has won a major ministerial position...