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Abiy Ahmed

Date of Birth: 15 August 1976
Place of Birth: Beshasha, near Agaro, Oromo Region


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ICC to probe war crimes as conflict rages on

While Burhan opposes IGAD's intervention and has criticised Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for calling for a no-fly zone the two generals have recognised last week's Sudan Neighbouring States Summit hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...

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Cacophony of peace missions take off in Addis Ababa

And on 13 July Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is planning to host yet another regional summit to which he has invited: South Sudan's Salva Kiir; Chad's Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka'; Central African Republic's Faustin-Archange Touadéra; Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed; and Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki...

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An imperial palace in the Yeka hills

When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power five years ago he said his mother had prophesied that he would be the seventh king of Ethiopia...


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Prime Minister Abiy knocks on the BRICS door

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's application to join the BRICS economic grouping (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) looks to be mostly about political symbolism and attempting to return the country to global diplomacy after the two years of civil war...

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Can Tigray's factions hold together?

Then it made heavy concessions to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal government due to its military weakness (AC Vol 63 No 25 Tentative steps towards peace)...


Forgotten but not gone

IGAD brought Salva on as a substitute for the usual regional mediator Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who is tied up in his own country's problems...


Team Abiy inches forward in Oromo talks

As long as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed insists the delayed 2021 elections were legitimate and that any proposal to end the ruling Prosperity Party's five-year term is unconstitutional it well be hard to reach a deal...


Regional states hold back, for now

In negotiations over the disputed Al Fashqa that straddles the Ethiopia-Sudan border Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed saw Burhan was intransigent...


Abiy disarms regional forces and riles his old backers

Growing local suspicions of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ties with Tigray and Oromo nationalists have coalesced into a mutiny against the federal government's efforts to rein in the Amhara region's paramilitary forces...


The price of peace

Following the successful November peace process in South Africa between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) the Zanzibar talks due to start on 26 April with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) are another sign that Ethiopia is emerging from a period of sprawling spiralling conflict (AC Vol 63 No 22)...


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