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Ethiopia goes electric following gas car ban

Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles. Shashe Asemare handles the large steering wheel with ease, navigating the ...
Radio France Internationale

Ethiopia goes to the polls with the result widely seen as a foregone conclusion

More than 50 million of Ethiopia's 135 million people are registered for the elections, in which voters will choose the 547 members of the House of People's Representatives, the lower house of the ...
BBC

Voting suspended in parts of Ethiopia over security concerns

Voting in Monday's general election was suspended in parts of Ethiopia's Oromia and Amhara regions due to security concerns, but long voter queues were seen elsewhere, electoral commission head ...
The New York Times

The Ruling Party Won Ethiopia’s Election. Here’s What to Know.

The vote bolsters the power of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed amid fears of renewed conflict in the Tigray region and tensions with Eritrea over access to the Red Sea. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Reporting from ...
Al Jazeera English

Ethiopia holds elections with PM Abiy’s party expected to dominate

Ethiopians have begun voting in parliamentary and regional elections, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party projected to win by a landslide, despite significant unrest in much of the country. More ...
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Ethiopia votes as ruling party eyes landslide win

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's party is running unopposed in several constituencies. Opposition parties have warned that the elections are even less open than previous votes. Polls opened in ...
CNN

Ethiopia’s PM won a Nobel Peace Prize, stoked a civil war - and is set for re-election

When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor ...
Al Jazeera English

Ethiopia’s election: Parties, coalitions and candidates explained

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopians vote on Monday in a general election to choose members of parliament, who will in turn select the next prime minister. The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) ...
Chatham House

Ethiopia needs more than an election to calm internal and regional conflict

Image — A man walks past an election campaign poster depicting Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Jimma on 27 May 2026. Photo by Marco Simoncelli / AFP via Getty Images. Ethiopia’s election on 1 ...
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Owner Ted Yirdaw spotlights tradition as Tsehay brings Ethiopian favorites to Adams Morgan

Polls have closed for the 2026 D.C. Primary elections. 7News has your live election results by GOOD MORNING WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tsehay is bringing Ethiopian favorites and tradition to Adams ...
Foreign Affairs

The War in Ethiopia Isn’t Over

A few months after coming to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency in the country’s Oromia region. The same summer, he struck a ...