Ethiopia Premier Hints At Leadership Changes for Tigray Region

Ethiopia may consider reshuffling the interim government in the volatile Tigray region where factional wrangling is threatening to reignite a conflict that could draw in neighboring Eritrea.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the federal government is amending laws to extend the interim government’s expired mandate to ensure continuity until elections planned for 2026 and will make some changes in the administration, he told parliament in the capital, Addis Ababa. The government fought a two-year war against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front — which previously ruled the country for nearly three decades — that ended in late 2022 and left hundreds of thousands of people dead.