Ethiopia Under Pressure of Election Deadline, Mulls Postponement
Police officers stand in front of a billboard of the political party of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, The Prosperity Party, during the electoral campaign for the general elections in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on April 20.
Photographer: Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images
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Ethiopia is struggling to conclude preparations for a national election scheduled for June 5, and may delay the vote for a second time in less than a year due to difficulties in registering voters.
About 31.7 million voters in Africa’s second-most populous nation of some 110 million people have so far been registered, according to Birtukan Mideksa, head of the National Election Board of Ethiopia.