Ethiopia held its seventh general election on June 1, 2026, with more than 54 million registered voters eligible to participate. Voting did not take place in Tigray and parts of Oromia and Amhara due to security and operational challenges, according to bluesky. The African Union Election Observation Mission expects the final results to be announced on June 11, 2026. According to africacenter.org, the election was the first general election in Ethiopia since the formal end of the Tigray war. Ongoing frictions surround Tigray and involve clashes between federal forces and ethnically based separatist groups in Amhara and Oromia, according to africacenter.org. Ethiopia’s election took place amid geopolitical rivalries in the Horn of Africa, including competition among Gulf states and tension between Addis Ababa and Cairo over the Nile, according to dw. Authorities describe the election as an important milestone in democratic development.