Ethiopia's Parliament Approves Sahle-Work Zewde as First Female President
Sahle-work Zewde |
Zewde was until recently, the UN Director General at its offices in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She is currently the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the African Union (AU).
Parliamentary members from the House of Peoples Representatives (HPR) & House of Federation (HoF) accepted the resignation of the former president Teshome Mulatu, before proceeding to elect Zewde to replace him.
Following her swearing-in ceremony, Zewde addressed the legislators, making a passionate appeal for peace in the country.
Zewde, also used the occasion to highlight the plight of mothers and women in Ethiopia, urging the lawmakers to work towards building a society that rejects oppression of women.
The East African nation with a population of over 100 million people, is currently plagued with bloody inter-communal disputes that have displaced 1.4 million people this year, according to the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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