Ethiopia to name new head of Tigray interim administration: PM

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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during the launch of Ethiopian Securities Exchange in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 10, 2025. (File/AFP)

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia said on Wednesday that it will appoint a new head of the interim administration in its northern region of Tigray, where months of tensions between rival factions have threatened a fragile peace agreement.
“The federal government, taking into account the realities on the ground, is taking action... in order to extend the mandate of the interim government” by one year, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wrote on X, adding it had “also become necessary to appoint a new head of the interim administration” in Tigray to replace Getachew Reda.