Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Ethiopian capital to express their anger after a weekend of deadly ethnically motivated violence. "Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed strongly condemns the killings and acts of violence against innocent citizens," Fitsum Arega, the prime minister's chief of staff, said in a tweet. Since taking power, Abiy has pursued a reconciliation strategy, steering the state away from a hardline security policy in place for decades. But Abiy's reforms have yet to halt ethnic violence. Clashes between Oromos and ethnic Gedeos in the south caused nearly a million people to flee their homes soon after he took power.

Source: Ethiopian News September 17, 2018 15:11 UTC