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Ethiopia s election 2021: A quick guide

BBC News Published image captionAbiy Ahmed has formed a new party for the election Ethiopia is due to hold elections on 21 June despite a bloody conflict and looming famine in the north and escalating tensions among its biggest ethnic groups. The polls were originally scheduled for August 2020 but were delayed, with officials citing the Covid-19 pandemic. Voters will elect 547 members of the federal parliament and the leader of the winning party becomes prime minister. The last general election was held in 2015. Why is the election such a big deal? This is the first electoral test for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed since he took office on a pledge to end repression, although there are already concerns about the integrity of the poll.

The War on Tigray: A Modern Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia

PARIS, France Ethiopia is situated in the Horn of Africa. It has the second-highest population in Africa with around 112 million people. Although Ethiopia is considered to be Africa’s fastest-growing economy, “it is also one of its poorest nations.” Domestic political disputes have led to a deep humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. It has affected the poorest communities in the country and around its borders. Although Ethiopia’s extreme poverty was down to 15.9%, the general population living in poverty is still 23.5%. What’s more, due to the recent military conflict between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray region, the latest estimates show that acute malnutrition in Tigray alone has reached 34%. Around 4.5 million living in the area require emergency food assistance. At least 70,000 children are at risk of severe, acute malnutrition.

The war in Ethiopia s Tigray region, explained

The bodies of the two brothers were left for more than a day. Their families knew they were there, but the soldiers wouldn’t let them collect the bodies. The soldiers left behind witnesses, though: two boys, barely teens, tied to a tree nearby, after the soldiers forced them to spend the night on the ground, between the bodies of the murdered men. The brothers were Kahsay and Tesfay, who both cared for young children and elderly parents in a small village in the northeastern corner of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, in an area home to the Irob, a small ethnic minority.

Dying by blood or by hunger : The war in Ethiopia s Tigray region, explained

Dying by blood or by hunger : The war in Ethiopia s Tigray region, explained
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