Ethiopian activist Eskinder Nega (2nd right) answered questions from BBC presenter Jonathan Dimbleby (center) at BBC's World Questions program held in Addis Ababa on Monday. But the loosening of such restrictions in Ethiopia has been accompanied by an explosion of ethnic conflict in the countryside. In a way, bringing his famed “Questions” program to Ethiopia represents a kind of culmination of his years reporting here. Ethiopia is made up of some 80 ethnic groups, and past governments generally used a harsh centralized authority to rule. “We feel the anxiety in people about the unchecked ethnic violence,” said one woman in the audience.

Source: Ethiopian News May 09, 2019 15:45 UTC