Two major parties of Ethiopia’s disbanding ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), have ratified their decision to join a new, united ‘Prosperity Party’ . The rebranding comes ahead of landmark general elections in Africa’s second most populous country, scheduled for May 2020. Eighteen months since taking office, the country’s reformist prime minister Abiy Ahmed is hoping to complete an unlikely transition from autocratic state do democratic governance. He has shaken Ethiopia’s status quo by opening its political sphere and kick-starting a much anticipated process of economic liberalisation. This has won him plaudits internationally – including a Nobel peace prize – but has also stirred political and ethnic instability. The EPRDF’s minority Tigray People’s Liberation Front – which dominated Ethiopian politics for decades before Abiy – has rejected the merger, part of growing domestic opposition to the ruling party. Ethnic tensio
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