Chairwoman of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) Birtukan Mideksa cautiously called the election 'an imperfect step in the right direction'...

Led by Birtukan Mideksa a former opposition stalwart NEBE has not completed the full set of directives governing the electoral process (AC Vol 60 No 12 Seeds of instruction & Vol 60 No 19 Rushing to the ballot box)...

They said the process reflected badly on the impartiality of the donor-backed NEBE led by Birtukan Mideksa a former political prisoner who also headed the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party...

Fanfare greeted the appointment of the former political prisoner Birtukan Mideksa a nemesis of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as the head of Ethiopia's electoral board in November but donors are less enamoured of its achievements since...

Those changes are intended to pave the way for free and fair parliamentary elections in 2020 which will be overseen by a more independent electoral board led by the former judge and opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa...

Former UDJ leader and detainee Birtukan Mideksa has announced she is pulling out of the organisation but gave few details about her plans...

UDJ is chaired by Birtukan Mideksa who is in gaol for life for breaking the conditions of the pardon she was given in 2007...

The main opposition party remains the Forum for Democratic Dialogue in Ethiopia (FDDE or Medrek) chaired by Beyene Petros and bringing together the Ethiopian Democratic Unity Movement Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (which combines the Ethiopian Social Democratic Party and Southern Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Congress) Oromo People’s Congress and the gaoled Birtukan Mideksa’s Union for Democracy and Justice (UDJ)...