According to multiple international news outlets, unrest erupts Ethiopia as violent clashes leave at least 67 people dead and 200 injured, police official reported. “The total number dead in Oromia is 67,” Kefyalew Tefera, the regional police chief, told the Guardian highlighting that five of the dead were police officers. Protests erupted out after Jawar Mohammed, an independent media organization owner, activist and political analyst, revealed on Facebook that there was a planned conspired attack against him by police officials after they ordered his security to clear the area. Police officials and the government, however, denied any ties to the expected attack. Soon after his post, clashes broke out in the Oromia region, which includes Ethiopa’s capital Addis Ababa, between civilians and security forces, resulting in the deaths of 19, while others were killed in clashes between supports of Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Abiy Ahmed and supporters of Mohammed, according to CNN. Although Tefera told AFP that the violence ended last Friday, Amnesty International’s Fisseha Tekle said that they are still receiving reports of attacks in the region, the Guardian reported. Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy, the first…
Deadly Protests Break Out against Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner PM Ahmed Abiy
October 27, 2019
