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...
While the TPLF's Abraham Tekeste a respected technocrat stays on at the Finance Ministry the only other new cabinet appointment for the party was Yalem Tsegaye at the relatively insignificant Ministry of Women and Children Affairs although TPLF Deputy Chair Fetlework Gebregziabher did take charge of the EPRDF Secretariat...
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)...
One of the most widely approved changes may turn out to be the appointment of the TPLF's Abraham Tekeste as Finance Minister...
