Dr Abiy Ahmed former army intelligence officer, since becoming Prime Minister Abiy has launched a wide programme of political and economic reforms
Preaching love and peace
While still a teenager, Abiy reportedly joined the resistance movement against the "Red Terror" regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam. After its demise he joined the Ethiopian army in 1993, where he first worked in the intelligence service and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the Rwandan genocide of 1994, he was deployed as a member of the United Nations peace mission and later served in the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
he promised political reform, to promote the unity of Ethiopia and the unity among the people of Ethiopia, reached out to the Eritrean government to resolve the ongoing Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
Since taking office in April 2018, Abiy's government has presided over the release of thousands of political prisoners from Ethiopian jails and the rapid opening of the country's political landscape
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More than anything else though, the new premier offered the people of Ethiopia hope – something that's been in short supply under the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which ruled the country with a top-down and iron-fisted approach since 1991. He even defended his speechmaking in Obama-esque "not just words" style, saying words do matter and one cannot govern without ideas and a political vision.
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Fighting the Good Fight
The future is bright
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