After 16 years in exile in the United States, the journalist and writer returned home to Ethiopia just months after a charismatic new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, ascended to power. Mohammed also hadn’t seen his mother and siblings for years, and of uniting with them said: “It was an exciting time. I couldn’t recognize their faces,” adding, “Everyone had changed.”In the year since Abiy rose to power, the word “change” has come to define many things about Ethiopia. Str/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Ethiopia’s “savior.”On April 2, Abiy, just 41 then, became prime minister and Africa’s youngest leader. Human Rights Watch staff who cover Ethiopia were also permitted to visit Ethiopia for the first time in eight years.

Source: Ethiopian News April 09, 2019 13:29 UTC