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EPRDF Merged, Prosperity Party Officially Formed

December 2, 2019TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY BORKENA Three former member parties of Ethiopia’s ruling coalition, EPRDF, and five agar (“support’) parties, as they used to be called during the entire lifetime of the coalition which sort of officially ended on Sunday, December 1, 2019, have inked their signature in the capital Addis Ababa officially signaling that time for Prosperity Party […]

Defense Minister Lemma Megerssa Turns His Back on PM Abiy

November 30, 2019November 30, 2019TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY TESFANEWS * Lemma Megersa, the Defense Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP). announced that he supports neither the premier’s plan to merge the ruling EPRDF coalition into a new singular ‘Prosperity Party’, nor his much touted philosophy to unit Ethiopia called “Medemer”, directly translated as “to add.”