Six die in Ethiopia unrest

By AFP
August 12, 2020

ADDIS ABABA: At least six people have been killed in southern Ethiopia this week in unrest related to a bid to establish a new federal region, officials and a rights body said on Tuesday. The violence in the Wolaita zone -- which one official said left as many as 16 dead -- marks the latest bout of ethnic unrest since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, took office in 2018.

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