FILE PHOTO: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed addresses a news conference in his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 25, 2018. Twenty-eight people died, the head of the capital's police commission, Degfie Bedi, said, raising the death count from 23. Violence that raged from Sept. 12-17 and included attacks on minorities in Ethiopia's ethnic Oromo heartland outside Addis Ababa, was a blow to new reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's efforts at reconciliation. In the town of Burayu north of the capital, residents said shops were looted and people attacked by Oromo youths who stormed through streets targeting businesses and homes of ethnic minorities. He has released hundreds of people detained over past political unrest and ended a two-decade military standoff with neighboring Eritrea.

Source: Ethiopian News September 25, 2018 12:00 UTC