LETTER: Ethiopia’s real hierarchy in a nutshell
Abiy Ahmed is not Ethiopia’s head of state — he is prime minister
26 November 2020 - 05:00
Abiy Ahmed is not Ethiopia’s head of state (Africa, November 19-25 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2020-11-19-ethiopias-war-of-visions/)) — he is prime minister.
With the overthrow of the Derg and the coming into power of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front government in 1991, new constitutional arrangements were decided upon, whereby a prime minister with all executive power serves as head of government under a ceremonial head of state, the president, who resides in the late Haile Selassie’s Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa...
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