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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEthiopia appoints its first female president
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/25/africa/ethiopia-first-female-president-intl/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-10-26T00%3A01%3A04&utm_medium=social&utm_term=imageLagos, Nigeria (CNN)
Ethiopia's parliament has appointed the country's first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde, in a move hailed as setting a new standard for women in the East African nation, the Prime Minister's chief of staff announced Thursday.
Sahle-Work, 69, has served since June as the United Nation's special representative to the African Union as an under-secretary-general. She also has held top diplomatic posts representing Ethiopia in France and Djibout.
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Sahle-Work's appointment comes amid a Cabinet reshuffle and radical political reforms by Abiy, who took office in April and, at 41, is Africa's youngest leader.
Abiy last week cut the country's ministerial roster to 20 and handed half the positions to women, including a female defense minister, another first for the nation.
He has freed many jailed journalists, bloggers and political prisoners arrested by previous administrations, along with honoring an agreement that ended a 20-year bloody border war with neighboring Eritrea.
Maybe that would be a good place to move.
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Ethiopia appoints its first female president (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Oct 2018
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Me.
(35,454 posts)1. Well Done Ethiopia
If only...
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)2. I know, Me, I know...
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)4. I know how you feel.
malaise
(269,157 posts)3. Great news
Lots of female parliamentarians as well
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)5. Yes. We are such a backward hick country
run by evil buffoons.