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Africa in Focus with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa
1.Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
Ethiopia's opposition braces for ruling party election landslide
Ethiopian opposition parties go into elections on June 1, facing threats, insurgencies, near-total state control of the media, and what they see as a pre-determined victory for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
This time, Abiy's PP is running completely uncontested in 64 of Ethiopia's 547 constituencies.
No voting will take place in the northern Tigray region, where tensions are still high with the federal government over a civil war in 2020-2022 from which some one million people remain displaced…
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