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Tigray Interim Council
The Tigray Interim Council (TIC) (formerly established as the Tigray Advisory Council) is a body established in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, as part of the implementation of the Pretoria Agreement signed in November 2022 between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Its formation faced significant delays, primarily due to internal disputes within the TPLF. The council's first emergency meeting took place from 14–16 February 2025. Background and establishment The council was intended to replace the disbanded Tigray Regional State Council. TIRA President Getachew Reda signed a 25-page regulation on 2 April 2024, outlining the council's mandate and operational procedures. However, its formal establishment was delayed by 306 days due to opposition from a TPLF faction led by Debretsion Gebremichael and Fetlework Gebregziabher. They reportedly instructed local TPLF offices not to send representatives to the council. Negotiations between TIRA leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigray Region
The Tigray Region (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) is the northernmost Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob people, Irob and Kunama people. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fourth-most populous, and the fifth-most densely populated of the 11 regional states. Tigray is bordered by Eritrea to the north, the Amhara Region to the south, the Afar Region to the east, and Sudan to the west. Tigray's official language is Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, similar to that of southern Eritrea. The Tigray region had an estimated pre-war population of 7,070,260. The majority of the population (c. 80%) are farmers, contributing 46% to the regional gross domestic product (2009). The highlands have the highest population density, especially in Misraqawi Zone, eastern and Maekelay Zone, central Tigray. The much less densely populated lowlands comprise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigray Independence Party
The Tigray Independence Party (TIP) is a Tigrayan nationalist political party in Ethiopia. Founded in 2020, the party seeks the independence of the Tigray Region. Creation In September 2020, ''BBC News'' described Tigray Independence Party as "a new opposition party". The party had been founded a few months earlier in Mekelle, on 17 June 2020. Policies In September 2020, prior to the 2020 Tigray regional election On 9 September 2020, the Ethiopian region of Tigray held an election for its state council. The election was considered illegal by the federal government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who postponed the 2020 general election earlier in the year ... held that month, TIP's main aim was for Tigray to secede from Ethiopia, becoming independent. It described Ethiopia as an "empire". September 2020 election TIP won 18,479 votes out of the 2,633,848 votes cast, winning no seats in the September 2020 election. The Tigray Regional Council resulting from the election estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Organizations Established In 2025
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Establishments In Ethiopia
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 In Ethiopia
The following is a list of events predicted and scheduled to take place in the year 2025 in Ethiopia. Incumbents * President: Taye Atskeselassie * Prime Minister: Abiy Ahmed Events Ongoing * War in Amhara * Gambela conflict * Addis Ababa City Corridor Project ( Second phase) * 2024–25 Ethiopian earthquakes January * 3 January – 2024–25 Ethiopian earthquakes: Volcanic activity is reported in Awash Fentale in Afar Region. * 10 January – Ethiopia launches its first stock exchange since the imperial period of Haile Selassie. * 11 January – Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud makes a surprise visit to Ethiopia following their peace agreement in Ankara. February * 8 February – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva makes an official visit to Ethiopia. * 11 February – A bus overturns in East Welega Zone, Oromia, killing at least 26 people and injuring 42 others. * 14 February – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Oromia. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TPLF
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; ), also known as the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist, paramilitary group, and the former ruling party of Ethiopia. It was classified as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government during the Tigray War until its removal from the list in 2023. In older and less formal texts and speech it is known as Woyane () or Weyané (). The TPLF was founded on February 18, 1975, in Dedebit, Tigray. Within 16 years, it grew from about a dozen men to become the most powerful armed liberation movement in Ethiopia. Unlike the Eritrean or Somali liberation fronts at the time, the TPLF did not seek independence from the Ethiopian state; instead, it aimed to overthrow the central government and implement its own version of the Ethiopian revolution. From 1989 to 2018, it led a political coalition, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). It fought a 15-year-long war against the Der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksumite Congress Party
The Aksumite Congress Party (ACP) () is an opposition party in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Creation The Aksumite Congress Party was established in May 2023 and officially registered with the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE). Dr. Solomon Barnabas (PhD) is one of the founding members and the party's coordinator. Name Dimtsi Weyane insights that ACP aims to address the region's challenges through a new approach to governance. Its name, invoking the historical Aksumite Empire, a major power in the region from the 1st to 7th centuries AD, signifies a connection to Tigray's glorious past, evoking national pride and identity while suggesting aspirations for a strong and prosperous future, echoing Aksum's historical prominence. Led by Dr. Solomon Barnabas, and political affairs head Mr. Abreha Woldemariam, the Aksumite Congress seeks to be a new political force bringing positive change to Tigray. Policies At its creation in May 2023, the party leaders stated that the laws ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assimba Democratic Party
The Assimba Democratic Party (, ADP) is an opposition party in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Creation The Assimba Democratic Party was created in October 2019 and officially registered with the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE). Asgedom was one of the founding members. Name '' Borkena'' suggested that the name ''Assimba'' represents nostalgia for the location in the Tigray Region of a former military training ground used in the late 1970s by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. Policies At its creation in October 2019, Asgedom stated that the status of the Eritrean–Ethiopian border, negotiated in the Algiers Agreement in 2000, was a concern for the Assimba Democratic Party and that the status of Welkait and Raya Azebo was also a priority. The ADP stated that it supports "good governance, equity in infrastructure development, broadening the political space in Tigray, improving the quality of education and fighting unemployment". The ADP described itself as soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Tigray For Democracy And Sovereignty
Arena Tigray For Democracy and Sovereignty (), also known as Arena Tigray, is an Ethiopian political party based in the Tigray Region and participating in the Medrek coalition federally. Creation Arena Tigray was created by Gebru Asrat in the early 2000s, when he left the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. ''Addis Fortune'' counts Arena Tigray as the second oldest political party in Tigray Region. Leadership Arena's first leader was Gebru Asrat. In 2017, at Arena's fourth congress, Abraha Desta, a philosophy lecturer who had spent two years in prison under TPLF rule, was elected as the new chair. , Amdom Gebreselassie was head of public relations for Arena Tigray. He held the position of vice head of the Public Relations Bureau of the Transitional Government of Tigray until mid-March 2021, when he was dismissed by the federal government for publicly calling for legal action against perpetrators of sexual violen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Congress Of Great Tigray
The National Congress of Great Tigray () or Baytona () is a political party in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Policies In September 2020, prior to the 2020 Tigray regional election held that month, Baytona aimed at increased autonomy for Tigray Region, to "secure its territorial integrity, promote its language, and preserve its heritage." Baytona favoured Ethiopia becoming a confederation of independent states. September 2020 election Baytona won 20,839 votes out of the 2,633,848 votes cast, winning no seats in the September 2020 election. The Tigray Regional Council resulting from the election established a mechanism for minority parties to propose agendas and bills, present motions, propose policy and nominate appointees. Baytona was allotted seven non-voting seats and one voting seat. Tigray War In January 2021, during the Tigray War, the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) asked Baytona for an "explanation about tsactivities" before taking a possible decision on dereg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of . , it has around 128 million inhabitants, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, thirteenth-most populous country in the world, the List of African countries by population, second-most populous in Africa after Nigeria, and the most populous landlocked country on Earth. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African Plate, African and Somali Plate, Somali tectonic plates. Early modern human, Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out for the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fetlework Gebregziabher
Fetlework Gebregziabher (; ''nom de guerre'' ''Monjorino;'' born ), is an Ethiopian politician from the Tigray Region and senior member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Fetlework was the Ethiopian Minister of Trade and Industry from October 2018 to January 2020. Early life Fetlework joined the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in 1979. She obtained her Master's degree at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the early 2000s. Politics After joining the TPLF in her childhood and studying at the LSE against the wishes of the TPLF leaders, Fetlework was elected to the TPLF Central Committee in 2006 and in 2010. She was elected as a member of the TPLF Executive Committee in 2015 and appointed to other senior TPLF positions during 2015–2017. In November 2017, Fetlework was elected as deputy Chair of the TPLF, as the first woman to hold the position, and reelected in October 2018. Minister In Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed's October 2018 cabinet reshuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
