AFRICA HAS a new breadbasket—or so says Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister. Thanks to a state-led programme of agricultural modernisation the country, once a byword for famine, claims to have gone ...

Fortune has smiled on Abiy Ahmed. When Ethiopia’s prime minister was a boy his mother prophesied that he would become a king. As a thrusting cadre of the ruling party, he told colleagues he would one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) officials process a voter before casting her ballot at a polling station during the ...

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Ethiopians voted on Monday in parliamentary and regional elections expected to hand Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling Prosperity Party a landslide win. There was no election in the Tigray region due ...

The vote bolsters the power of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed amid fears of renewed conflict in the Tigray region and tensions with Eritrea over access to the Red Sea. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Despite the ...

When Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018, aged 42, he carried with him the weight of Ethiopia‘s hopes. Having come to power after months of popular unrest, he “enjoyed broad public support, along with a ...

Abiy Ahmed is likely to continue his role as Ethiopia's prime minister after his Prosperity Party won another comfortable parliamentary majority in the June 1 elections. The party took nearly 90% of ...