An important sign is the optimism exuding from Workneh Gebeyehu Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and a former Ethiopian foreign minister...
While Hamdok pushed for mediation as chair of IGAD Addis Ababa used the organisation's Ethiopian executive secretary Workneh Gebeyehu to stifle his efforts...
Abiy's ex-Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu who now heads the Intergovernmental Authority on Development met Salva ostensibly to talk about South Sudan's peace process...
That is because a more systematic investigation of abuse and graft would mean disturbing his own political home: Oromia president and Abiy's close ally Lemma Megersa used to be head of the regional security apparatus while Foreign Minister and ODP politburo member Workneh Gebeyehu is a former Federal Police Commissioner...
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...
Workneh Gebeyehu Ethiopia's Foreign Minister has held meetings with the UAE's Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem bint Ibrahim al Hashimy the outcome of which is not known...
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The most likely compromise candidate would be Lemma's OPDO deputy Workneh Gebeyehu who is currently the Foreign Minister and was previously Commissioner General of the Federal Police...
That shift has been partly overseen by OPDO's new Deputy Chairman Workneh Gebeyehu who was formerly Federal Police Commissioner and is now Foreign Minister...
The OPDO appears to have been compensated with an end to TPLF hegemony at the Foreign Ministry with the appointment of Workneh Gebeyehu a former Federal Police Commissioner and then Transport Minister and OPDO's recently elected Deputy Chairperson...
The Regional Council Speaker Lemma Megersa replaced Muktar as Chairperson while former Federal Police Commissioner and current Transport Minister Workneh Gebeyehu became his deputy...