Ruling Party in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region Loses Legal Recognition

Ethiopia’s election board nullified its legal recognition of the party that rules the volatile northern Tigray region and waged a two-year war against the federal government amid ongoing divisions within its ranks.

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front failed to organize a proper assembly of its members, conduct internal elections or approve bylaws, according to the board, which suspended its recognition of the party for three months in February. The party had failed to implement “corrective measures” since then, the board said in a statement.