{"id":179873,"date":"2026-10-31T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=179873"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:52:59","slug":"abiy-ahmed-says-his-ministers-and-senior-officials-are-taking-military-training-at-hurso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/179873","title":{"rendered":"Abiy Ahmed Says His Ministers and Senior Officials Are Taking Military Training at Hurso"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed runs with senior government officials at the Hurso military training center in a photo he posted on X on Saturday. Photo: Abiy Ahmed Ali (@AbiyAhmedAli) via X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Saturday that the leaders of what he calls the Medemer government, among them cabinet ministers and state ministers, are taking military training at the Hurso military training center, and he shared photos of himself running and sitting with them in trainee uniforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leaders of the Medemer government are taking training at the Hurso military training center,\u201d Abiy Ahmed wrote in Amharic in a post on X<\/a> and on Facebook under the heading \u201cFor all round prosperity, leadership with all round readiness.\u201d He wrote that \u201cmilitary science, experience and life have no rival in shaping a person\u2019s purpose and character,\u201d and that the training would play \u201ca role that cannot be underestimated\u201d in understanding and carrying out the ideas of what he calls the grand strategy of Medemer civilization, among them \u201cbuilding a steadfast country that does not bow to anything or anyone\u201d and \u201censuring the country\u2019s security at all times.\u201d He ended the post with these lines: \u201cSoldiers have a target, and civilians have a purpose. The goal of both is to achieve victory. By bringing the two disciplines together, we will create a generation that both hits the target and achieves the purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

BBC Amharic<\/a> reported that the photos show ministers and state ministers appointed to the government formed in September, as well as heads of other offices, wearing the uniforms of trainee soldiers, and that among them are House of Federation Speaker Muferiat Kamil, Finance Minister Fitsum Assefa and Health Minister Mekdes Daba. The BBC said it had not been announced when the training began or how long it would last. Fana Media Corporation<\/a> reported that Abiy joined the officials in the exercises at Hurso on Saturday, and Addis Standard<\/a> also carried his statement.<\/p>\n

The training comes as the war with TPLF forces in the north has resumed and the army, with its Tigrayan allies, holds most of Tigray and is pushing toward the Eritrean border, raising fears of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which have cut diplomatic ties, BBC Amharic noted. Abiy said this week, during a visit to Russia, that Ethiopia had taken delivery of Su-35 fighter jets, as Zegabi reported<\/a>, and the authorities in Addis Ababa are also fighting Fano forces in Amhara, where a drone strike on a camp for displaced people killed 18 people on Thursday, residents and a hospital source told the BBC, as Zegabi reported<\/a>. On Friday, listeners who write regularly to DW Amharic\u2019s youth program from several parts of the country told it that young men were being suddenly and forcibly picked up off the streets and recruited into the military, DW reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On X, Tesfanews (@tesfanews<\/a>), which describes itself as a source of Horn of Africa political news, views and commentaries, wrote that \u201cthe new one time mandatory military training\u201d for ruling party officials, members of the Council of Ministers and other officials \u201cis reportedly continuing\u201d at Hurso. Abrar Suleiman (@AbrarSuleiman<\/a>), who posts in Amharic to about 400,000 followers, asked: \u201cHow did you see the Prosperity [Party] officials entering the Hurso training center for military training? Is it \u2018good, let them have a taste of it,\u2019 or does it smell of Sawa Sawa?\u201d referring to Sawa, Eritrea\u2019s national military training camp. The account \u1293\u1270\u12ed (@Fenkl17<\/a>), whose bio describes a Tigrinya speaker, wrote in English that \u201clooks like sawa has opened a branch in Ethiopia.\u201d Milkessa Gemechu (@milkessam<\/a>), whose bio says he is a college assistant professor, wrote in Amharic that \u201cin that country, everything is heading to the war front\u201d and added in Afaan Oromo that \u201ceveryone has become a militia.\u201d MasMan (@masbekele<\/a>), who describes himself as an IT consultant, wrote in Amharic that he did not believe taking Abiy Ahmed\u2019s new cabinet to a military training center \u201cis a mistake in itself,\u201d but that \u201ccivilian leadership is different from military leadership\u201d and that \u201ca good leader is measured not by how he performs on parade but by the results he brings to the people.\u201d Replying to the prime minister, the account @aschalk_f (post<\/a>) wrote in Amharic that training like this is \u201clike a \u2018mental gym\u2019 for leaders\u201d that strengthens \u201cnot only the body but morale, discipline and \u2018the system from top to bottom.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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