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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: The Volcano, the Beast and the Tiger [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
Beware what you wish for, you may get it…
Meles Zenawi, the late thugmaster of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF)...
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...
Dispatches: Ethiopia’s Opposition Leaders on Hunger Strike [HRW]
Protesting Against Mistreatment in Prison
Felix Horne
Researcher, Horn of Africa@felixhorne1
It has been nine days since prominent Ethiopian opposition leader Bekele Gerba and several other senior members of the Oromo Federalist Congress...