Ethiopian PM Abiy defends response to ethnic clashes
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday pushed back against portrayals of his government as weak and timid in the face of recent unrest that left more than 80 people dead. Protests against Abiy, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, erupted in Addis Ababa and in Ethiopia’s Oromia region on October 23 after a high-profile activist accused security forces of trying to orchestrate an attack against him -- a claim police denied. The instability quickly devolved into ethnic and religious clashes in multiple locations in Oromia. Abiy waited several days to issue a written statement about the violence, and he has been criticised for his slow public response.
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