The Khat trad ers and consumers in breakaway Somaliland have been facing khat shortage for the last three days after the business was disrupted …
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Ethiopia just pardoned political prisoners. Could that signal a shift to real democracy?
https://www.washingtonpost.com Is Ethiopia opening — ever so slightly — to democracy? Some observers were cautiously optimistic after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn’s surprising Jan. 3 announcement that the government would …
Read More »Ethiopia’s Oromo leader meets German envoy over political developments
http://www.africanews.com Barely two weeks after criminal charges against him were dropped and he was released from prison, Dr. Merera Gudina, a leading opposition member in …
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The mystery over who paid a record-breaking $450 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Salvator Mundiat an auction last month appears to have been solved. It …
Read More »Renewed Oromo-Somali clashes in Ethiopia kill more than 20: state media
ADDIS ABABA A renewed bout of clashes between two of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic groups killed more than 20 people last week, the state-controlled broadcaster reported …
Read More »‘We fear for our lives’: how rumours over sugar saw Ethiopian troops kill 10 people
www.theguardian.com It began with a rumour. On 25 October, residents of Ambo, 120km west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, heard word on social …
Read More »Overshadowed by Other Conflicts, Ethiopia’s Crises Undermine Its Stable Reputation
www.worldpoliticsreview.com Long before a demonstration against South Sudan’s president forced Nikki Haley to evacuate a displaced persons camp in Juba on Wednesday, it was a safe bet …
Read More »Ethiopia’s Oromo denounce govt on stampede anniversary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group on Sunday staged a peaceful anti-government protest at their biggest festival, where dozens were killed a year ago during a …
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by Awol K Allo @awol_allo Awol K Allo is Lecturer in Law at Keele University, UK. Lying to the southeast of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa …
Read More »Ethiopia Says Somaliland Displaced Thousands of Oromo People
Ethiopia accused a semi-autonomous territory in neighboring Somalia of illegally displacing more than 3,000 long-term Oromo residents in the wake of clashes on the boundary …
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