Ethiopia Achieves a Profound Change, But Complexities Abound

摘要

Ethiopia's ruling EPRDF on March 27,2018, finally, and with much difficulty, voted for what could be a meaningful change in governmental leadership, but that does not mean incoming Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed AH, 41, will immediately have his hands on all the levers of power. Security and defense controls seem to remain in the hands of the Tigrean minority which has controlled the EPRDF since 1991. Prime Minister Abiy's maiden speech galvanized the country.