(Editors’ note: This article is published as a response to Alemayehu Weldemariam’s Ethiopia Observer commentary headlined Ethiopia’s Charismatic Leader: Riding the Wave of Populism or Reforming Ethnic Federalism? The original version of this response was published on the author’s Facebook…
Following the resignation of Hailemarim Desalegn as Prime Minster and chairperson of the ruling coalition on Mid-February, the 180-Council of Ministers named Abiy Ahmed Ali to head the governing Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), paving the way for him…
The Ethiopian government is to release political prisoners and detainees and close down notorious prison, Maekelawi (“central” in Amharic), Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said in press briefing this morning. The announcement was made by Hailemariam after a seventeenth-day meeting of…