Ethiopia: Somali region president’s resignation, Prime Minister’s imperatives
- August 8, 2018
- - 7:15 pm
Summary The forced resignation of Somali region president Abdi Illey complies with Ethiopia’s geopolitical imperative of the defense of the country’s ethnographically diverse territorial integrity. Abdi’s threat to the changing pattern of national Ethiopian politics, and the loss of his former political patrons, meant the former warlord was politically untenable for the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Analysis Abdi Mohammed Omar aka “Abdi Illey” resigned on August 7 his position as president of the Somali region of Ethiopia. The resignation and Abdi’s subsequent relocation to and possible detention in Addis Ababa comes in the context of tensions in the …
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