The Ethiopian government on Thursday appointed a senior official of the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) movement as head of the region's interim regional government, months after the peace agreement that ended two years of bloody civil war.
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed Getachew Reda as interim chairman of the Tigray region administration
," Abiy Ahmed's office announced in a statement posted on Twitter.
Getachew Reda was notably spokesperson for the TPLF until then.
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