Huge crowds lined the street, some wearing T-shirts bearing his image.
Horsemen rode along his heavily guarded motorcade, as it slowly climbed to Arat Kilo.
The joyous celebrations actually started much earlier in the day at the Addis Abeba Bole International Airport where Abiy’s flight arrived at dawn to be received with a 21-gun salute.
The joyous celebrations actually started much earlier in the day at the Addis Abeba Bole International Airport where Abiy’s flight arrived at dawn to be received with a 21-gun salute.
The joyous celebrations actually started much earlier in the day at the Addis Abeba Bole International Airport where Abiy’s flight arrived at dawn to be received with a 21-gun salute.
President Sahle-Work Zewde hosted a state dinner reception to congratulate and welcome the Prime Minister on his return home from Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize two days earlier.
However, this honourable award and the international recognition it has garnered seems to have energised Abiy, who in his speech at the dinner said he will be going back to the office after the party and working until midnight and then urged his cabinet members “not to sleep”.
President Sahle-Work Zewde hosted a state dinner reception to congratulate and welcome the Prime Minister on his return home from Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize two days earlier.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) was warmly welcomed and congratulated by his cabinet members and others ministers, including Hirut Zemene, state minister for Foreign Affairs, Ergoge Tesfaye (PhD)(middle), minister of Labor & Social Affairs, and Hirut Woldemariam (PhD) (left), minister of Science & Higher Education, as he entered the spacious reception hall at the National Palace.
