Tag: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia says PM, a Nobel Peace laureate, is at battlefront

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has gone to the battlefront to take charge in a yearlong war as rival fighters approach the capital, his government announced Wednesday. State media showed no images of Abiy Ahmed, a 45-year-old former soldier, and his spokeswoman Billene Seyoum dismissed a […]

Air strikes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region will continue, PM says

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ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed further air strikes after jets bombed the northern Tigray region on Friday amid reports that Tigrayan forces had seized control of federal military sites and weapons. The military conflict, which has raised fears of civil war, broke out on […]

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