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Abiy Ahmed: Protesting Ethiopian soldiers wanted to kill me - BBC
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that some of the soldiers who entered the grounds of his office last week had wanted to kill him.
At the time, he defused the situation by ordering them to do press-ups and joining in.
Mr Abiy...
Italian, Ethiopian premiers discuss migration issue
Giuseppe Conte and Abiy Ahmed discuss burden sharing of migrants, says Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesman
By Addis Getachew
Anadolu Agency
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed...
Ethiopian PM meets with soldiers demanding pay rises: TV - Reuters
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met on Wednesday with several hundred soldiers who had marched on his office to demand pay rises and were invited in to see him, his office and state media reported.
Abiy “listened...
Ethiopia: 3 federal police killed in downtown shootout
Anadolu Agency
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Three federal police were killed in a shootout in the center of capital Addis Ababa early Thursday, according to police.
The incident took place at Wolo Sefer area, the busiest neighborhood along Bole road...
Ethiopia faces reforms' next steps as ruling coalition meets - AP
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Declaring “a true measure of leadership is not indispensability,” Ethiopia’s prime minister on Wednesday urged the next steps in the country’s sweeping reforms as the ruling coalition that has led...