“All I can say is that I think maybe the world celebrated a little bit too early on the perceived changes in Ethiopia,” Kenyan journalist Collins Juma Osemo, also known as Yassin Juma, said in an interview with Voice of America. Juma told Voice of America while in quarantine as he prepared to return home that his experience shows the press in Ethiopia continues to face severe restrictions. Kenyan journalist Yassin Juma pictured with a group of armed men while working on a documentary about an insurgency in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. Early this week, activists released what they described as a partial list of Oromos killed by Ethiopian security forces since August 17, 2020. Abiy’s father and Lemma both come from Oromiya where bloody street protests propelled Abiy to power in 2018.

Source: Ethiopian News August 28, 2020 13:21 UTC