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When Abiy Ahmed, pictured at an UN address, was appointed prime minister two years ago by the ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, he was the first Oromo ever to govern the country, even though the Oromo are the largest of Ethiopia’s many ethnic groups.Screen capture via UN's YouTube page

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 9, 2020

Americans should congratulate themselves. Their election system is definitely better than Ethiopia’s. In fact, it works so well that there’s unlikely to be another American civil war. The United States, a federal country wit...

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