(Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)Ethiopia’s reformist prime minister announced Tuesday a new cabinet that is half female, in an unprecedented push for gender parity in Africa’s second-most-populous nation. The new cabinet, which reduces ministerial positions from 28 to 20, has women in the top security posts for the first time in Ethiopia’s history. “Our women ministers will disprove the adage that women can’t lead,” Abiy said in Parliament. In the new cabinet, in addition to defense and security, women will head the ministries of trade, transport and labor, as well as culture, science and revenue. Read more:Ethiopia’s reforming prime minister runs into a roadblock of ethnic unrestAfter years of unrest, Ethiopians are riding an unlikely wave of hope.

Source: Ethiopian News October 16, 2018 09:31 UTC