ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians gathered on Saturday to welcome returning leaders of the once-banned Oromo Liberation Front amid sweeping reforms to bring opposition groups back into politics. The OLF and two other organizations were removed from a list of terror groups earlier this year after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office. The group since the 1970s has advocated the "right to national self-determination" for the Oromo people, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group. A large concert was held in Meskel Square in the capital, Addis Ababa, to welcome OLF leader Dawud Ibsa and others arriving from Eritrea's capital. "I'm happy to be here after 26 years of struggle from outside of Ethiopia," the OLF leader told reporters.

Source: Ethiopian News September 15, 2018 13:52 UTC