PM Abiy: Completion of #GERD ends #Ethiopia’s ‘thousand-year’ challenge Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has declared the completion and full operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as the end of Ethiopia’s “greatest historical challenge.” In a televised statement, Abiy described the Abay River [Blue Nile] as the “mother of all problems” Ethiopia had faced for centuries, arguing that its harnessing through the GERD marks the end of a "thousand-year struggle." He contrasted the achieveme

#Gravitas | Is #Ethiopia's civil war a proxy battle between the West and East? A journalist claims Western diplomats "plotted to overthrow" Abiy Ahmed. The Ethiopian PM—who has now gone to the battlefield—is allegedly getting weapons from China and Iran. Palki S Upadhyay has more | WION

2019 Peace Laureate Abiy Ahmed Ali is the first Ethiopian to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This year’s prize is also the 100th Nobel Peace Prize. Watch the very moment he receives the Nobel Peace Prize. | Nobel Prize