Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen left the government a few weeks later (AC Vol 65 No 4 Demeke's exit points to deepening rifts)...
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It is stretching the unity of the government; deputy prime minister Demeke Mekonnen resigned In January pointing to more Amhara hostility towards the Abiy government (AC Vol 65 No 4 Demeke's exit points to deepening rifts)...
The fall-out that triggered the exit of long-serving Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen is another sign of the widening gap between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his former associates from Amhara; and more broadly between the Amhara political establishment and its counterparts in Oromia...
Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen from Amhara wants a peaceful solution...
There is no consensus between Abiy and his Amhara deputy Demeke Mekonnen on how to proceed...
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For the federal government Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen and national security advisor Redwan Hussein will lead a seven-member team...
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Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen will lead a seven-member team in upcoming peace talks aimed at resolving the conflict in Tigray province...
His deputy Demeke Mekonnen an Amhara may even be among them...
A foreign ministry delegation – led by Grum Abay chief advisor to Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen and by Abiy's foreign policy advisor Girma Temesgen – was also in Washington...
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Abiy himself was elected president of the party with 1 480 votes; Adem Farah Speaker of the House of Federation – the upper house of parliament – got 1 330 votes to become first vice-president; and Demeke Mekonnen Deputy Prime Minister 950 votes as a second vice-president...
They had included four leading Amharas: Demeke Mekonnen Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Gedu Andargachew current National Security Adviser; Agegnehu Teshager president of the Amhara region; and Temesgen Tiruneh Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Service; and a similar group of Oromos Shimelis Abdisa Oromo region president; Fekadu Tesema head of the Oromo PP; Adanech Abebe mayor of Addis Ababa; and Addisu Arega former head of the Oromo Democratic Party Central Committee office...
Antony Blinken the US Secretary of State visited Nairobi in mid-November after talks in Addis Ababa with Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen...