A positive sign was the promotion of capable figures such as the former Communications Minister Getachew Reda and the current Finance Minister Abraham Tekeste to the TPLF's Executive Committee yet it is hard to see how they or any other party leaders will achieve fundamental reform (AC Vol 58 No 15 Reforms stall as unrest eases)...
His predecessor Getachew Reda Kahsay of the EPRDF's founding party the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) was well-connected with previous stints in the Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office yet he failed to improve public relations...
Getachew Reda for example now heads the Justice and Legal System Research Institute...
Vol 57 No 12 |
- EGYPT
- ETHIOPIA
So said Ethiopian Communications Minister Getachew Reda in an interview by the Saudi Arabian-owned newspaper Asharq al Awsat on 27 May...
Government spokesman Getachew Reda said that only five had died but warned the figure could rise...