Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party, a pan-Ethiopian movement he established a year ago, faces opposition from increasingly strident ethnically-based parties seeking more sovereignty for the regions they represent. Africa’s second most populous nation with some 110 million citizens, Ethiopia has a federal system and 10 regional governments, many of whom have border disputes or are experiencing unrest. Tigray held its own elections in September in defiance of the federal government, which stated the vote was illegal. The tenure of both the parliament and Abiy was due to expire in October but was extended because of the pandemic.

Source: Indian Express December 26, 2020 06:33 UTC