Inflammatory rhetoric on both sides made Tigrayan people feel under siege, boosting support for the TPLF, he said. Alex de Waal, a professor at Tufts University, said launching the new party so quickly may have been a miscalculation: the old coalition had become a rare forum for negotiation in a nation where political dissent often meant prison.
But Abiy was in a hurry. National elections were due in August and his new party needed to compete against a plethora of new ethnically based groups. The government postponed elections. Many opposition groups reluctantly agreed, but not the TPLF.
They held their regional elections in September anyway. There are about rural districts and about urban districts. Terminology varies, with some people considering the urban units to be woreda, while others consider only the rural units to be woreda, referring to the others as urban or city administrations.
The 12 provinces were: Arsi. Ethiopians are the native inhabitants of Ethiopia, as well as the global diaspora of Ethiopia. Ethiopians constitute several component ethnic groups, many of which are closely related to ethnic groups in neighboring Eritrea and other parts of the Horn of Africa. The Benishangul-Gumuz Region is one of the 11 administrative regions of Ethiopia. The administrative center of the region in the northwest of the country is the city of Asosa. Its surface area is 50, square kilometers and according to data, the population is 1,, The Gambela Region is one of the 11 administrative regions of Ethiopia.
In the northern part of the country, the administrative center of the region is Gambela. Its surface area is 25, square kilometers and according to data, it has a population of , Harari Region is one of the 11 administrative regions of Ethiopia.
In the northern part of the country, the administrative center of the region is Harar. Oromia Region is one of the 11 administrative regions of Ethiopia. According to the law of the region covering the central and southern parts of the country, the administrative center is Addis Ababa, the implementation center is Adama city.
Its surface area is , square kilometers and according to data, it has a population of 35,, The region of Oromia has the highest surface area in Ethiopia. The Somali Region is one of the 11 administrative regions of Ethiopia. Jijiga is the administrative center of the region, which runs along the Somali border to the east of the country. Its surface area is , square kilometers and according to data, it has a population of 8,, It is the second-largest area after the Oromia Region in the administrative regions of Ethiopia.
Located in the south of the country, the administrative center of the region is the city of Hawassa. The land area is , square kilometers and according to data, the population is 19,, Haileselassie then reigned until when he was deposed and a provisional council of soldiers the Derg, meaning committee seized power and installed a government which was socialist in name and military in style. Fifty nine members of the Royal Family and ministers and generals from the Imperial Government were summarily executed.
Haile Selassie himself was strangled in the basement of his palace in August Major Mengistu Haile Mariam assumed power as head of state and Derg chairman after having his two predecessors killed. Insurrections occurred throughout Ethiopia, particularly in the northern regions of Tigray and Eritrea. This ran Eritrea until April when Eritreans voted for independence in a UN monitored referendum. The election for a member constituent assembly was held in June This assembly adopted the constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in December Elections for the first parliament were held in and the government was installed in August of that year.
In , a new constitution was written that formed a bicameral legislature and a judicial system. A general election was held in to elect the Parliament which also elected Meles Zenawi as Prime Minister and Negasso Gidada as president. In the general election, the EPRDF won despite allegations of irregularities that resulted in widespread protests.
Following the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawei in August , Hailemariam Desalegn succeeded him as Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Chairman of the ruling coalition on September until he resigned, as a consequence of popular uprising in the country, in an unprecedented manner in Africa. On 7 October , Mulatu Teshome was elected as President of the country. Consequently, Dr. Abiy Ahmed was declared Prime Minister on 2 April and was seen as a hope of change across the country.
Prime Minister Abiy further ended the 20 years stalemate with Eritrea and signed a peace agreement who was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Economically, in , immediately after assuming power, the Transitional Government of Ethiopia TGE chose a new economic orientation different from its socialist predecessor. Hence, the economic policy of the government was a South Asian model of Developmental State. Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa with a population of over million.
The main sources of growth and investment in the country are industry, mainly construction and services, agriculture and manufacturing. Since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power, the government introduced a home-grown economic growth policy at the centre of which is private ownership through privatization of state-owned enterprises such as railway projects, sugar development plants, industrial parks, hotels and other manufacturing industries.
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