Tag: Tigray

In one of the most eventful weeks in recent memory, the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has decided to elect Debretsion Gebremichael (PhD), Minister of Information Communication Technology, as chairman replacing Abay Woldu, who was removed from the party’s executive committee and the chairmanship yesterday.

In what has become one of the longest and intensely debated party meeting since the 2001 split, the Tigray People Liberation Party (TPLF) has announced today that it has suspended Azeb Mesfin, widow of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, chairman of Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT) and member of executive committee, from all party affairs for unspecified time along with Beyene Mikru, her deputy at EFFORT, and Abay Woldu, President of the Tigray Regional State and chairman of the party, both of whom were downgraded to the central committee.

The second leg of the public conference between the Amhara and Tigray Regional States is scheduled to be held starting tomorrow November 18, 2017, the Amhara region Communications head Nigusu Tilahun stated on his official Facebook account.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), CARE Ethiopia and Catholic Relief Services and the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources launched a USD 60 million dollars program that will assist poor households in the rural highlands of Ethiopia