Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has only been in the job since April, chairing the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which has ruled Africa’s oldest independent state for the best part of three decades, but he is already making waves.
Billed as a technocrat and peacemaker, Abiy was born to a Muslim father and Christian mother in the town of Beshasha in what is now Jimma, where previous regimes have sought to interest suitors in the area’s vast oil shale potential.
