AU Observers: Ethiopian Poll Was 'Calm, Peaceful and Credible'

Calm, peaceful and credible: Those are three of the key words the African Union election observer mission used to describe Ethiopia’s national election, which is widely expected to produce yet another landslide for the nation’s longtime ruling party. But “free and fair,” two critical adjectives, were missing from the assessment by the only foreign election observer mission present as tens of millions of Ethiopians voted Sunday. “The AU Election Observers’ Mission concludes that the...

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