Month: September 2016
- Africa
Analysis: Perpetual poverty in the shadow of Ethiopia’s ‘Safety Net’
Tesfalem Waldyes & Kalkidan Yibeltal On June 28 2016, hundreds of people in Jido Kombolocha, a small town located in East Shoa Zone of the Oromia regional state 207 km south east of Addis Abeba, were heading towards the local Farmers’ Cooperatives Union office. Even though it was Tuesday, the air was full of a market day ambiance…
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Qilinto fire: Eyewitness – “They were indiscriminately shooting at prisoners”
Mahlet Fasil In a disturbing e-mail message received by Addis Standard, an eyewitness who said he was on guard the morning of Saturday Sep 3, says that armed prison guards were indiscriminately shooting at prisoners” most of whom were running “frantically to extinguish the fire” that broke at Ethiopia’s notorious prison ward known as Qilinto, in Aqaqi, on the outskirts…
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Death toll, tension rise following PM Hailemariam’s orders for military to take measures in Amhara Region
Several people are reported to have been killed in various parts of the Amhara regional state in Northern Ethiopia, where an ongoing protest by the people is intensifying. The VOA Amharic service quoted a resident in Debarq yesterday that four people were killed when security officers fired live bullets at protesting civilians. Over the last few days several reports on…
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