
“Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appoints Getachew Reda as East Africa Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister with a rank of Minister” (Office of the Prime Minister, 11.04.2025).
Getachew Reda, the ousted Interim President of the Tigray Interim Regional Administration (TIRA) has now been appointed as a Minister and Advisor for the Prime Minister. That means the Prosperity Party and the PM has trust in the fallen leader and former renegade of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
TPLF who has left Reda behind and has now encircled him or anyone in alliance to him. They have ensured the demise of Getachew Reda and enlarged the fraction of Debretsion Gebremichael. That’s why he lost the Presidency and also isn’t trusted in Mekelle.
This is why his appointed and is a man of the leadership in Addis Ababa. They have worked with him since the Pretoria Agreement and has built a relationship. That’s why Abiy wants him around, as Reda knows how TPLF works and his been an insider. This makes him an asset for Abiy, as he wants to consolidate power and has also signed a new agreement with TPLF, which ensnares them by giving them the new interim President of the region.
Getachew Reda has gotten into a safe haven and a honourable office, but that with a cost. As his not a fellow comrade in Mekelle. His a man who seems to be selling out and doing so for his own cause. He has tried to powerplay the TPLF and lost. Reda who knew who he went after and should know they would get ahead of him. There was no way Abiy would save him and outmanoeuvre the TPLF. No, instead he first let him fall and now later appointed him into another position. That’s just showing that Abiy trusted him and see him as an ally.
Reda isn’t at home in the Prosperity Party, neither is he in the TPLF. His a man without a home right now. Unless his starting his own or joining the PP. That is where his heading and wanting to rebrand into the PP for Tigray or something. Alas, then he would run a briefcase operation to advance the “Medemer terror” in Tigray. However, that is better than nothing, I suppose.
The PM got a fighter and now his theirs. We can wonder how this will play out, but Reda’s role in the TPLF is over. His now one of them and become a puppet of Abiy. Peace.














