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News: Wolayta zone council emergency meeting passes seven resolutions, including establishing a secretariat to prep for statehood
Addis Abeba, June 22/2020 – Following a day-long emergency meeting by the Council of Wolayta zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Regional State, (SNNPRS), zonal Council members have unanimously approved seven point resolution including a resolution to establish a secretariat to oversee preparations for the zone’s demand for …

News Alert: SNNPRS Council called for emergency meeting; expected to transfer power to effect Sidama regional state
Addis Abeba, June 16/2020 – The Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional (SNNPRS) Council has called for an emergency meeting of its members for June 18. The letter from the Council requests its members to assemble at Millennium Hall (Cultural Hall) of Hawassa & collect the main agenda of the …

Analysis: Stranded uni students in Yirgalem sustain severe abuse by security forces as campus reneges on promises
Etenesh Abera @EteneshAb Bileh Jelan @BilehJelan & Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem Addis Abeba, May 12/2020 – As many as fifty college students, including dozens of women, were beaten by baton wielding police, who also struck another woman student with a bullet, near the Southern regional state town of Yirgalem a few …