News: Afar, Somali regions trade serious accusations after renewed violence leaves scores dead addisstandard 2020-12-28
Conflicts between Afar and Somali regional states are recurring but unlike in the past this time both regions threw serious accusations at each other
By Bileh Jelan
Addis Abeba, December 28/2020 – Afar and Somali regional states traded serious accusations after renewed violence over the weekend left scores of civilians and security forces killed.
In the last week of October this year, two separate attacks on two separate occasions in the Afar Regional State have left several civilians dead and injured. Among those who were killed on Oct 28 were two staff members of the federal ministry of education in an attack which was blamed on an unknown armed group by both the Afar regional state and the federal ministry of education. At least 27 people were killed in deadlier attack announced the next day on October 29 by the Somali regional state communication aff
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Ethiopia: Zenawi is Ruling from the Grave
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IGAD2020 Regional Security Watch Briefing:
In May 2010, Ethiopia announced the provisional result of a national election led by TPLF leaders which was designed the general expectation, the return of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to power and set him on the road to nearly 25 years in power.
Ethiopia’s Provisional election results were expected to return Meles to power amid accusations of fraud and intimidation. He tells Reuters and Horn of Africa Newsline that “he never expected to be in power for so long. “It’s happened,” he said. “I don’t regret it but I just hope that, at the end of it all, it will have been worth it.”