Africa: Ethiopia’s ruling coalition agrees to form single party ahead of 2020 vote By Reuters
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the decision to merge had been taken unanimously, as the dissenting members of the coalition were not in the room. He also announced that the new party would be called Prosperity Party.
The manoeuvring showed how the country – Africa’s second most populous – is torn between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s unifying drive and various ethnic groups seeking more autonomy. “We can’t whitewash the ethnonationalist sentiment, which is the reality,” said Zerihun Teshome, an Addis Ababa-based political analyst and chief executive of a local media company.
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