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Tigray Caretaker Administration Issues Election Rules and Resume Payroll

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Tigray Caretaker Administration Issues Election Rules and Resume Payroll
AI SUMMARY

The Tigray Caretaker Administration has issued a new election regulation barring 2020 war participants from running, announced the resumption of civil servant salaries, and faced calls to lift import restrictions for regional investors.

  • The Tigray Caretaker Administration issued an electoral process and appointment regulation prohibiting individuals who participated in the 2020 northern war from running in regional elections.
  • Candidates for various administrative structures must not be members of any political organization.
  • The regulation aims to fill the governance vacuum following the collapse of the previous interim administration and establish a public-participatory structure.
  • The administration also announced that civil servant salaries will be paid starting November 9, but only for employees who returned to their duty stations following the recent call.
  • The Tigray Sectoral Association Council requested the Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration to allow regional investors to resume importing goods from abroad.
  • Regional investors had previously been prohibited from importing goods and asset movements into the region had been restricted.