Almost three months later, the tourist getaway some 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of the capital, Addis Ababa, remains shut. With a fresh outbreak of violence in western Ethiopia over the past three weeks, the upheaval is compounding a succession of setbacks for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed less than a year after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Abiy Ahmed speaks after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Dec. 10, 2019. Abiy, an ethnic Oromo who had risen from small-town poverty, was named as his successor in a bid to quell the discord. “The current bickering will lead to a serious political and security quagmire if it doesn’t abate soon,” he said by phone from Addis Ababa.

Source: Ethiopian News September 24, 2020 05:02 UTC