page_title: Abiy Ahmed
section_title: Foreign policy
hierarchical_section_title: Abiy Ahmed / Prime Minister of Ethiopia / Foreign policy
caption_attribution_description: English: President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, in a meeting with theEthiopian President Mulatu Teshome, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed and the Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch, Abune Mathias. Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Photo Credit: Mark Neyman / GPO. Depicted people&#58; &#32;Reuven Rivlin and Abiy Ahmed עברית: נשיא המדינה ראובן ריבלין בפגישה עם נשיא אתיופיה ,מולטו טשומה,&#8207; ראש ממשלת אתיופיה, אביי אחמד (אנ') והפטריארך האתיופי האורתודוכסי (אנ') אבונה מתיאס (אנ'). יום רביעי, י"ז באייר תשע"ח, 2 במאי 2018. קרדיט צילום: מארק ניימן / לע"מ.
context_page_description: Abiy Ahmed Ali is an Ethiopian politician serving as the 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018. He is the first Oromo chairman of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front from the Oromo Democratic Party, which is one of the four coalition parties of the EPRDF. Abiy is also an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament, and a member of the ODP and EPRDF executive committees.
  A former army intelligence officer, since becoming prime minister Abiy has launched a wide programme of political and economic reforms, and worked to broker peace deals in Eritrea, South Sudan, and a transition agreement in the Republic of the Sudan. Abiy was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
context_section_description: In May 2018, Abiy visited Saudi Arabia, receiving guarantees for the release of Ethiopian prisoners including billionaire entrepreneur Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi, who was detained following the 2017 Saudi Arabian purge.
  In June 2018, he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo and, separately, brokered a meeting in Addis Ababa between the South Sudanese president Salva Kiir and rebel leader Rieck Machar in an attempt to encourage peace talks.
caption: Abiy and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin in May 2018
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