Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed on Thursday met with the leader of Patriotic Ginbot 7 (PG7), an opposition group that had been previously designated as a terrorist organisation.
Abiy, who is currently in the United States to rally the Ethiopian diaspora to support ongoing reforms in the country, met Berhanu Nega at the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. Details of the meeting are yet to emerge, but it should be recalled that Abiy also met the co-founder of PG7, Andargachew Tsige, soon after his death sentence was rescinded in May.
Mr Berhanu was sentenced to death in absentia in 2009 for trying to overthrow the government.
His Patriotic Ginbot 7 movement was outlawed.
But Ethiopia’s parliament lifted the ban on the group in May and a new amnesty law should clear the way for him to be pardoned.
The changes were part of a raft of reforms introduced since Mr Abiy became prime minister in April.
PG7 which has since been removed from the list of terrorist organisations by parliament, announced in June that it had suspended armed operations, saying the ongoing reforms had convinced it to return to Ethiopia to pursue a peaceful struggle.
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