The immediate demands of Ethiopian politics may leave Abiy with no choice but to shift his focus inward in the months to come. Photo: AFP / MICHAEL TEWELDE
Since becoming Ethiopian prime minister in April 2018, the 43-year-old has aggressively pursued policies that have the potential to upend his country’s society and reshape dynamics beyond its borders. Despite the challenges, Abiy’s allies predict his deep well of personal ambition will prompt him to keep swinging big.
Yet Abiy progressed quickly through the power structures created by the ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front , after it took power from the Derg military junta in 1991.He rose to lieutenant-colonel before entering government, first as a securocrat — he was the founding head of Ethiopia’s cyber-spying outfit, the Information Network Security Agency.
States of emergency and mass arrests — typical EPRDF tactics — worked to quell the protests but failed to address the underlying grievances. “Abiy has had real foreign policy successes, but there has been some misguided optimism from abroad that he can transform the Horn of Africa,” said James Barnett, an analyst specialising in East Africa at the American Enterprise Institute.– Assassination bid –
Great man,I love 👆🏻 with passion.
A laudable achievement for this young prime minister,he deserves it, if there was a Nobel Prize for Ethnic Chauvionism and Clannishness/Nepotism MBuhari would have gotten such a prize unopposed!
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