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July 12, 2021

Ethiopian Elections Deliver Win for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
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Ethiopia's National Electoral Board says incumbent Prime Minister Abiy
Ahmed has won a second five-year term in office. His party's landslide
victory came after fewer than 40 million people in a nation of 110
million registered to cast ballots - with no voting at all taking place
in three of Ethiopia's 10 regions. That includes the Tigray region, home
to 6 million people. Four hundred thousand people in Tigray are in
famine, with nearly 2 million more on the brink, after Prime Minister
Abiy pursued a devastating military offensive against separatists.


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