Ethiopia: an arrest to assert internal reform
- January 24, 2019
- - 8:56 am
The January 23 arrest by police forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara regional state of Bereket Simon, a very senior former Ethiopian government official who served as key lieutenant to former (and deceased) Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is intended to constrain active dissent toward reformist leadership and measures effected by Ethiopia’s federal as well as Amhara and Tigrayan regional governments. Bereket, who, in addition to his senior roles in the Meles administration, served as a senior member of the Amhara National Democratic Party, was detained in the federal capital of Addis Ababa on charges of mismanagement of Amhara public resources, and has …
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