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Editorial: As one more desperate resort to stop the killings by the security, MPs should reclaim the power vested on them by the Constitution
Editorial Addis Abeba, January 30/2018 – As of late, it doesn’t take to be a doomsayer to see (and say) that the politics in Ethiopia is at a brink of an unprecedented crisis that keep dragging its people to violence and chaos. Mentioning a few recent examples will suffice to …
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News: At least eleven people, including a district court head, killed in Mersa, north Wello, as protests spread; residences, a local court, government offices and a police station burned down
Etenesh Abera, Addis Abeba, January 27/2018 – At least eleven people “possibly more” were killed today in Mersa town, some 27 km before Weldiya, in north Wello zone of the Amhara regional state in northern Ethiopia. Several people were wounded and a local court, a police station, residences and …
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News: Victim’s brother in Weldiya describes finding the body of his brother riddled with five bullets
Residents say the number of causalities is higher than what is admitted by officials Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, January 24/2018 – In an interview he gave to the BBC Amharic, Kidane Getachew, the brother of Gebremeskel Getachew, one of the victims of the weekend’s killings by security forces in …