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Ethiopia Faces Growing Outrage After Drone Strike Kills 36 Displaced Civilians in Oromia

By BINYAM DANIEL Questions mount over the Ethiopian government’s drone warfare strategy as witnesses describe a deadly strike on civilians fleeing insecurity in western Oromia. A reported drone strike in western Oromia that allegedly killed 36 displaced civilians, including eight children, has intensified public outrage and renewed questions about the Ethiopian federal government’s expanding reliance…

Bread, beans and the economics of survival

By ROGERS TULYAHABWE On the morning of 17 December 2010, a young Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi went to work on a normal day. He was 26 years old, had failed to find formal employment and had resorted to selling vegetables and fruit from a street cart in Sidi Bouzid, a small town in central…

Ethiopia’s Security Collapse Under Abiy Ahmed: From Massacres to Kidnappings Turning daily life into a nightmare

By BINYAM DANIEL From deadly attacks on Orthodox Christians in Oromia to ransom kidnappings on major highways and alleged extortion by security forces in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s deepening insecurity exposes a government increasingly unable to guarantee the most basic responsibility of the state: protecting human life. Ethiopia’s worsening security crisis has once again claimed the…