New Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed waves during his rally in Ambo, about 120km west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. One could argue that not since Mikhail Gorbachev — another Nobel Peace Prize laureate — introduced glasnost to the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s has any country embarked on such radical reforms. At about the same time that the Nobel Peace Prize was being announced last week, the Addis Ababa police arrested protesters at a rally criticising the municipal government. The real test of Abiy’s progress will come in May 2020, when the next national elections are scheduled to take place. He has won the Nobel Peace Prize; now, he needs to earn it.

Source: Ethiopian News October 20, 2019 11:48 UTC