Abiy announces peaceful vote in Ethiopia as parties end campaign Abiy Ahmed News
Political parties involved in Ethiopia’s twice-delayed polls have completed election campaigns next week, and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced that the country will successfully hold a peaceful vote.
The June 21 election will be a time of great ethnic unrest and economic challenges, as well as a month-long conflict in the northern Tigray region, and the United Nations has warned that at least 350,000 people are hungry. Opposition parties in other key regions have said they will boycott the polls, the sixth since Mengistu Haile Mariam ousted the communist government in 1991.
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