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AN URGENT CALL TO THE ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE[Obang Metho]
DEAR ETHIOPIANS:
I commend you, especially those in Oromia and Amhara regional states! You have demonstrated great courage, perseverance, self-control and regard for the human lives of others as you have peacefully risen up in increasing numbers...
Unprecedented Ethiopia protests far from over: analysts [AFP]
Regional protests that began last year in Ethiopia have spread across the country, and despite successive crackdowns analysts say dissatisfaction with the authoritarian government is driving ever greater unrest.
Demonstrations began popping...
#EthiopiaProtests: Nightmare of the Incumbent [By BefeQadu Z. Hailu]
Oromia, the biggest and most populated regional state of Ethiopia, has had non-stop protests, known as the #OromoProtests in social media, for consecutive nine months. All 18 zones of Oromia have witnessed more than thousands of mass protests....
7 dead as Ethiopian police and protesters clash [news24]
Addis Ababa – At least seven people were killed during fresh clashes between police and anti-government protesters in western Ethiopia on Saturday, local sources said, while the ethnic unrest also reached the capital Addis Ababa for the first...
Ethiopia protests: What's behind the trouble in Gondar? [BBC]
Sunday’s protest in Ethiopia involving thousands of people in Gondar, the capital of the Amhara region, is a rare example of an anti-government demonstration in the country.
It was organised on social media but no group has taken responsibility...