ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s electoral commission said on Tuesday it would delay national elections scheduled for August because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The board will announce a new timeline once the pandemic had subsided, the Amharic-language statement said.
The August polls were seen as a key test of the reformist agenda of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in what was once one of the continent’s most repressive nations.
(Reporting by Dawit Endeshaw; Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Gareth Jones)
