"A Southern Light at the end of the Tunnel"
(Awasa) The Hadicho people mostly living in Dara Woreda of Sidama zone are reportedly boycotting the Sidama referendum, according to residents who informed Awasa Guardian (AG). However, locals are still being forced toward voter registration and harassed by the Sidama ruling party and the Sidama Liberation Movement (SLM). The Hadicho people, formerly led by Sidama Hadicho […]
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(Awasa Guardian) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has successfully pushed a renegotiation over Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) as the dam approaches completion. The White House and the World Bank have gotten involved as mediators, effectively sidelining years of trilateral consultations between Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt. Analysts familiar with Cairo’s strategic and diplomatic maneuvers […]
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On Oct. 11, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the long stalemate with neighboring Eritrea. Paradoxically, Abiy enjoys only fragmented and diminishing popular support in his own country. Even in his home region of Oromia, his leadership is seriously contested by the ethnonationalist forces represented by the social media […]
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