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Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen attended the African leader’s emergency summit held in Cairo, Egypt today to address the situations in Sudan and Libya.

The summit was also attended by several African heads of state, including Egyptian President and current chairman of the African Union (AU), Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Speaking after the summit, Sisi said the meeting agreed to give Sudan’s ruling military council three months to implement democratic reforms.

The decision extends a 15-day deadline given by the African Union last week for the Transitional Military Council (TMC) of Sudan to hand over power to a transitional civilian-led political authority.

The TMC took over power after President Omar al-Bashir was ousted on April 11.

President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, has concluded her twoday Ethiopia visit and flew to Cote d’Ivoire this morning.
During her stay in Ethiopia, she met with President Sahle-Work Zewde and Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed to discuss issues of mutual interest.
Moreover, she joined David Bohigian, Acting President and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to launch 2X Africa at the ECA and met with African Union (AU) officials at the AU headquarters.
Ms Trump also visited a textile and Handicrafts Company, met humankind’s original empowered woman-Lucy, and members of the Ethiopian Women’s Coffee Association.
In Cote d’Ivoire, she will visit a cocoa farm and participate in a meeting on economic opportunities for women in West Africa.
The event is part of the World Bank’s Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, a program that Ivanka Trump pushed the bank to introduce.

Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed received at his office Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, and her delegation earlier this afternoon.
They discussed issues of mutual interest, according to office of the Prime Minister.
Ms. Trump is in Ethiopia as part of the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) initiative aimed at advancing global women’s economic empowerment.
Earlier today, she met President Sahle-Work Zewde at the Presidential Palace to discuss issues related to women empowerment.
Ivanka Trump briefed the Ethiopian President about the White House Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative she’s leading.
Yesterday, she visited a textile and Handicrafts Company and the Ethiopian Women’s Coffee Association.
Ms Trump arrived in Addis on Sunday as part of her four-day tour to Africa.

Ivanka Trump arrived in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, Sunday for a summit on African women’s economic inclusion and empowerment.
President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser visited a coffee shop and textile company in Addis Ababa. She is there to promote a $50 million initiative enacted by her father in February that is aimed at encouraging women’s employment in developing countries.
The Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative says it hopes to “reach 50 million women by 2025, through the work of the the United States Government and its partners.”
“Fundamentally, we believe that investing in women is a smart development policy and it is a smart business,” Ivanka Trump said after sampling coffee at a traditional Ethiopian ceremony. “It’s also in our security interest, because women, when we’re empowered, foster peace and stability.”
It was not immediately clear if the controversy that surrounds the U.S. president will follow his daughter to Africa. The president has not been kind in his remarks about Africa and its migrants.
“I don’t think people will have a good feeling” Ethiopian journalist Sisay Woubshet said about the president’s daughter visit to the continent.
Marakle Tesfaye, an activist, said, however, “I think she’s coming genuinely to empower women and it’s good that she’s coming because she will push forward our agenda.”
Ivanka Trump will also meet with meet with Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed before going on to Ivory Coast, where she will attend a meeting on economic opportunities for women in West Africa.
She is also scheduled to make an appearance at a World Bank policy summit.

US Ambassador to Ethiopia, H.E. Michael Raynor said the United States remains deeply inspired by Ethiopia’s ongoing economic and political reform agendas and firmly committed to supporting these efforts.
In an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald, Ambassador Raynor pointed out that Ethiopia has been registering remarkable economic and political progress since Abiy Ahmed’s election as Prime Minister in April 2018.
He mentioned that flow of foreign direct investment to Ethiopia jumped by over 10 percent from 2017- 2018 and the US companies have shown an increasing interest to take full advantage of the opportunities that Ethiopia has to offer, bringing the types of responsible investments that benefit both countries.
“The Ethiopian people enjoy greater freedoms to express their views than at any time in recent memory and for the first time in 15 years the Committee to Protect Journalism has found no journalists imprisoned in Ethiopia,” he added.
On the way forward, Ambassador Raynor underlined the need for commitment not only from the government, but also from the Ethiopian people and civil society, to find the path to success.