Ethiopia names anti-Tigray general as new ambassador to Kenya

General Bacha Debele

Ethiopia names General Bacha Debele as the new ambassador to Kenya. PHOTO | COURTESY 

Ethiopia has named a military general who has been the face of the war against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front as the new ambassador to Kenya.

General Bacha Debele will take over from Meles Alem-Tekea, the career diplomat who had served in Nairobi since 2019, having started at the station in a junior capacity.