This lady is poised to be the next president of Abyssinia!!
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Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday will meet to appoint a new president, a largely ceremonial post in the Horn of Africa nation, the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported.
A session involving both houses of parliament is expected to hear and formally accept the resignation of current President Mulatu Teshome who has served in the post for the last five years.
No reason has been given for his expected resignation but observers speculate it was the outcome of continued negotiations between the four parties in the ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
In April the EPRDF appointed Abiy Ahmed the first prime minister from the Oromo ethnic group, the country’s largest, who has led a programme of reforms, making peace with former enemy Eritrea and reconciling with various opposition groups.
Abiy recently appointed a new cabinet, with half of all posts going to women.
Mulatu is the third president of Ethiopia since it formally adopted multiparty politics and a new constitution in 1995.
Breaking the glass ceiling? Ceremonial president? Chosen by parliament… Thought she was poised to win an election like Sirleaf. Congratulations are in order though…
These were the heights Amina was set to scale before we recalled her…reminds me of another Tanzanian lady who was deputy at UN…I wonder what became of her
Fiti. 3rd female president after ule wa Malawi na Sirleaf
Ann Tibaijuka…left the UN for politics in TZ. Sacked by Kikwete on allegations of corruption. Apparently,after her four years in Kenya,she had learnt from the best…
:D:D we are good teachers…but UN is corrupt anyway
If a post is ceremonial then why have it? It seems like a waste of resources