Nearly 50 African leaders, including Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, are attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit that begins Tuesday in Washington. The three-day summit that begins Tuesday is meant to advance shared priorities through conversations focused on numerous global crises and challenges, including climate change, good governance, food insecurity, world health, and violent extremism, US officials said. Prime Minister Abiy, a one-time US ally was accused by the Biden administration of backing widespread abuses in the Tigray conflict, which has subsided with a breakthrough November 2 agreement signed in South Africa. A peace deal was signed on November 3, 2022, which was praised by U.S. officials as a diplomatic achievement. On Saturday, a local newspaper reported that the US urged the Ethiopian government to permit international human rights experts’ access to the country as a precondition before reinstating Ethiopia’s benefit under AGOA.

Source: Ethiopian News December 13, 2022 11:09 UTC