Dozens of people were shot dead by security forces in protests across Ethiopia’s Oromiya and Amhara regions at the weekend, residents and opposition officials have said. At the weekend, protesters chanted anti-government slogans and waved dissident flags. Authorities scrapped the scheme in January, but protests flared again over the continued detention of opposition demonstrators. The state-owned Ethiopian News Agency said “illegal protests” by “anti-peace forces” had been brought under control. Unrest flared in Oromiya for several months until early this year over plans to allocate farmland surrounding the regional capital for development.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2016 02:48 UTC