{"id":100782,"date":"2018-03-29T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?guid=d6db13485120199d88fa926fd9a9bea7"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:38:28","slug":"ethiopias-parliament-to-swear-in-new-prime-minister-on-april-2-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/100782","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#039;s parliament to swear in new prime minister on April 2 &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-100853 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Abiy-Ahmed-pic-2.jpg?resize=780%2C501\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"501\" \/><br \/>\n(Reuters) &#8211; Ethiopia\u2019s prime minister-elect Abiye Ahmed will be sworn in on Monday, its parliament said, after the ruling coalition chose him to succeed Hailemariam Desalegn as its chairperson.<br \/>\nThe ruling Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front coalition on Tuesday voted in the 42-year-old to take over the government.<br \/>\nEthiopia is Africa\u2019s second most populous country and has had the fastest growing economy on the continent for the past decade, but protests that began in 2015 have caused the biggest threat to the EPRDF since it took power in 1991.<br \/>\n\u201cThe House of People\u2019s Representatives will hold an extraordinary session on April 2 to swear in Dr. Abiye Ahmed,\u201d the body said in a statement.<br \/>\nAbiye will now face pressure to appeal to legions of disaffected youth and to push through promised reforms.<br \/>\nThe event was initially scheduled for Saturday. The statement did not give a reason for the postponement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Ethiopia\u2019s prime minister-elect Abiye Ahmed will be sworn in on Monday, its parliament said, after the ruling coalition chose him to succeed Hailemariam Desalegn as its chairperson. The ruling Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front coalition on Tuesday voted in the 42-year-old to take over the government. Ethiopia is Africa\u2019s second most populous country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-qdw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264031,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100782\/revisions\/264031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}