Ethiopia declares state of emergency over health crisis

16 April 2020
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia (photo credit: GovernmentZA/flickr)
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia (photo credit: GovernmentZA/flickr)
It is the first state of emergency announced under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who came to power in 2018 and won last year's Nobel Peace Prize in part for expanding political freedoms in the authoritarian nation. "Because the coronavirus pandemic is getting worse, the Ethiopian government has decided to declare a state of emergency under Article 93 of the constitution," Abiy said in a statement.
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