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...

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...

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...

A joint federal and regional law enforcement forum in Bahir Dar capital of the Amhara region on 29 October attended byAbiy and his deputy Demeke Mekonnen called for an 'all-out civil war'...