{"id":9383,"date":"2018-03-27T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9383"},"modified":"2018-03-27T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:02:07","slug":"ethiopia-gets-new-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/ethiopia-gets-new-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia gets new Prime Minister,\u00a0Abiy Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"program--News programBlockHeader\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<section class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p class=\"u-m0\">Ethiopia\u2019s ruling coalition has elected a new leader in the person of Dr. Abiy Ahmed. He will eventually become Prime Minister of the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content__text article-content__left-column\">\n<p>State-affiliated <span class=\"caps\">FANA<\/span> Broadcasting Corporate (<span class=\"caps\">FBC<\/span>) reported late Tuesday that the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (<span class=\"caps\">EPRDF<\/span>) had elected Abiy as its chairperson.<\/p>\n<p>His rise to become Prime Minister \u2013 head of government \u2013 is premised on approval by the Front\u2019s Council and subsequent approval by the parliament. Political watchers hold that that process is a mere formality.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that current deputy Prime Minister, Demeke Mekonnen will maintain his post. Abiy is leader of the Oromo bloc of the <span class=\"caps\">EPRDF<\/span> \u2013 the Oromo Peoples Democratic Organization (<span class=\"caps\">OPDO<\/span>). He is also the first Premier from the Oromia region \u2013 Ethiopia\u2019s largest and most populous regional state.<\/p>\n<p>The Addis Standard news portal reports that he garnered 108 votes out of a possible 180 to emerge the winner. Abiy takes over from Hailemariam Desalegn who resigned his post in mid-February, according to him to allow for political reforms promised by the <span class=\"caps\">EPRDF<\/span> in early January 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/addisstandard\/status\/978730438159228928\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-expand\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-shrink\">He assumes leadership of the East African security and economic giant in a time of heated political crisis emanating from his state, Oromia. Anti-government protests in Oromia and northern Amhara region have riled the country since 2015 till early this year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It has since led to two state of emergencies over a two-year period. The first was between October 2016 to August 2017 with the latest round declared in February barely 24-hours after the resignation of his predecessor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s ruling coalition has elected a new leader in the person of Dr. Abiy Ahmed. He will eventually become Prime Minister of the country. State-affiliated FANA Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) reported late Tuesday that the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) had elected Abiy as its chairperson. His rise to become Prime Minister \u2013 head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[317,322],"class_list":["post-9383","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-politics","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopia gets new Prime Minister,\u00a0Abiy Ahmed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ethiopia gets new Prime Minister,\u00a0Abiy Ahmed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/ethiopia-gets-new-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" 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