Ethiopia: Ruling party wants more women in parliament

Ethiopia's ruling party is imposing female quotas on candidates in a bid to have more women in parliament, officials said on Friday. Women are guaranteed up to 30 percent of seats in the national elections for the incumbent Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). Opposition groups have also taken up the "historic" move as political parities battle it out in the run up to the May 2005 federal and regional elections.