FILE PHOTO: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, addresses a news conference in his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 25, 2018. REUTERS/Kumera Gemechu/File Photo ReutersBy Aaron MaashoADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed in a weekend of violence targeting minorities in Ethiopia's ethnic Oromo heartland near the capital Addis Ababa, police said, a blow to new reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's efforts at reconciliation. The violence escalated on Saturday after two days of sporadic attacks in the Oromiya region's Burayu district northwest of Addis Ababa. Another resident said some of the violence was carried out by people returning from Saturday's rally in support of the returning OLF leaders. But Abiy's reforms have yet to halt ethnic violence.

Source: Ethiopian News September 17, 2018 09:11 UTC