0 SHARES Share TweetMekele, Ethiopia, Sep 9 – Ageing war veterans and university students joined long lines in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region to vote Wednesday in a parliamentary election that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has deemed illegal. Tigray, which shares a border with Eritrea and Sudan, is one of Ethiopia’s 10 semi-autonomous regions organised broadly along ethnic lines. It dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades before anti-government protests swept Abiy — from the Oromo community — to power in 2018. Though the TPLF has been sidelined under Abiy, it remains in command in Tigray, whose people make up six percent of Ethiopia’s population of 110 million. “The election that will be held in Tigray is a shanty election,” he said.

Source: Ethiopian News September 09, 2020 09:31 UTC