@JosepBorrellF #AmharaGenocide pic.twitter.com/NItpvCvk9HPrime Minister Abiy Ahmed is facing stiff resistance to his government’s moves to centralize control over Ethiopia. Elsewhere, rebels in Oromia, Ahmed’s own home region, are also fighting to resist the former Nobel Peace Prize winner’s attempts to centralize control over the entire country. Women wait for a water truck at a camp for people internally displaced by drought in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. PHOTO: EDUARDO SOTERAS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESIn recent weeks, Fano fighters have taken intermittent control of the airport in Lalibela, Ethiopia’s main tourist destination. Amhara, around the size of Georgia, is the most fertile state in Ethiopia, producing the bulk of the country’s main staples, corn and sorghum.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 04, 2023 19:49 UTC