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Ethiopia Crisis
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News: At least four people killed, several injured when security forces open fire at IDP camp in eastern Ethiopia; stay at home boycott happening in various cities in Oromia
Liyat Fekade & Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, February 12/2018 – At least four people, including one member of the Oromia police force, were killed and eleven others were injured on Sunday February 11 after federal security forces opened fire at a camp sheltering thousands of civilians in Hamaressa, a …
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Commentary: OPDO’s silence on Bekele Gerba, others still in jail, detrimental to its reformist image
By: Awol Allo, Hassan Hussein, Mohammed Ademo and Tsedale Lemma Addis Abeba, February 07/2018 — Ethiopia’s much-touted pledge to release political prisoners in order to foster national consensus and widen the democratic space turned out to be much ado about nothing. Thirty-five days after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced plans …
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Opinion: Demystifying the bold-move by the Oromia Regional State leadership vis a vis Ethiopia’s quest for a better tomorrow
Daniel Behailu (PhD), for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, January 31/2018 – Ethiopia is in a chaotic state of facts for the last five years and in the last three years the chaos has grown into a different phase. There have been persistent resistance mainly in Oromia and Amhara and …