Abiy Ahmed's party retains its huge majority despite unrest in several parts of Ethiopia and tensions with its neighbours.

For months there have been signs of trouble brewing in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. At the start of the year, during the ruling Prosperity Party’s (PP) first congress, heavy-hitters from the party’s ...

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 ...

Abiy Ahmed Petterik Wiggers—Panos Picture s/ReduxPetterik Wiggers—Panos Picture s/Redux In 2019, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his efforts ...

Today, that promise is gone. The Nobel Committee may not be able to revoke its prize, but it chastised Abiy in a way that exceeded admonishments of other recipients whose commitment to peace ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, on Thursday issued a very rare admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, ...

Nairobi, Kenya — Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister says he will lead his country's army "from the battlefront" beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step in a devastating yearlong war.

Addis Ababa, December 25, 2025 (ENA)—Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed extended Merry Christmas wish to international friends and the global family. In a message posted on X (formerly Twitter), the Prime ...

Abiy Ahmed took power in Ethiopia in 2018, raising hopes that it would become a more open, democratic country, but his rule has been marked by mounting repression and civil war. The "Abiymania" of his ...