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People across Ethiopia lined up outside the polls on Monday to vote in elections described by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as “free and fair”.
Elections are taking place in the northern Tigray region on the back of war and famine, and Abiy has received growing international criticism for managing internal conflicts.
Residents of the capital Addis Ababa said the event was a “decisive day for Ethiopia” and hoped to be “a government that will bring peace, unity and murder everywhere.”
Elections, postponed last year, are the focus of Abiy’s reform. His rise to power in 2018 seems to have been broken by authoritarian rule for decades and the Nobel Peace Prize the following year.
Opposition groups have denounced the harassment, manipulation and threats of violence echoed in the past in the Ethiopian ruling party.
No voting date has been set in Tigray, as the government has been fighting since November for the former regional government party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The United Nations says about 350,000 people are starving.
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