It has been a whirlwind year for Ethiopia since Abiy Ahmed became prime minister. Within weeks of a landmark July 2018 meeting between the prime minister and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki, essential services were restored. Domestic challenges remainEthiopia’s political landscape shifted on its axis when Abiy Ahmed came into power in April 2018 following large-scale anti-government demonstrations that had brought the country to the verge of national collapse. Abiy Ahmed has largely discarded the revolutionary ideology and developmental state economic model that glued the EPRDF together and favours Western educated technocrats over loyal party cadres for senior positions. Abiy Ahmed has made great strides in his first year by challenging the status quo and disrupting the authoritarian state machinery.

Source: Ethiopian News April 12, 2019 09:45 UTC