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Restoring Calm in Ethiopia after High-profile Assassinations
The shocking murders of five high-ranking officials have exposed the gravity of Ethiopia’s crisis.
- ICG
To mitigate risks, politicians should refrain from doing or saying anything provocative, while the federal government and ruling elites take urgent steps to heal deep and dangerous internal rifts.
A series of assassinations on 22 June has jolted Ethiopia.
That evening, in Amhara state, the country’s second-largest federal region, gunmen killed regional leader Ambachew Mekonnen and two of his advisers.
A few hours later, a…
The Prime Minister’s Office linked the killings and cited a…