Abiy Ahmed

With preparations for landmark elections less than a year away and behind schedule with the country trapped in a security crisis and an ethnic group threatening to declare the federation's first new regional state Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has a lot on his plate...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is willing to commit fresh troops on the strength of the warm relations he enjoys with Farmajo...

The idea that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the autocratic President Issayas Afewerki have formed a strong bond allowing the two nations to agree terms is wearing thin...

As the latest controversy over Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa crackled and sizzled Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's thoughts turned to dinner...

The big political and economic story this year will be Ethiopia and whether its barnstorming Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed can maintain the momentum of reform as he devolves power from the highly controlled state system (see Feature)...

Abiy Ahmed was one of the star attractions at the Davos circus...

Pan-African and pan-global Amid last year's political fireworks Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's plans for trade liberalisation which includes accelerating Ethiopia's World Trade Organisation accession and regional economic integration went under the radar...

After what amounted to an internal coup d'état in the first half of 2018 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has consolidated his dominance of the EPRDF and now has to work out what to do with his considerable power (AC Vol 59 No 21 Push-ups and makeovers)...

Regional relations were dominated by the sea-change in policy brought about by Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and in November Somalia Ethiopia and Eritrea pledged to turn over a new leaf...

* ETHIOPIA: A perpetual motion prime minister keeps up the pace Without question the appointment of Abiy Ahmed as Prime Minister in March was the political story of the year on the continent...

The rounding up of around 70 individuals after a five-month investigation led by the Attorney General's Office demonstrates that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government intends to punish those responsible for some of the worst excesses of the past...