Girma Yeshitila, the head of the Prosperity Party in Amhara, was among five people killed in an attack on Thursday, according to the northern region’s government. READ MORE Ethiopia: Key players in the Amhara networkThe killing of Girma was carried out by these “extremist forces”, the statement added, without giving a date for the arrests. “Those who couldn’t win ideas with ideas have taken away the soul of our brother Girma Yeshitila,” Abiy said in a Facebook post announcing what he denounced as a “shameful and horrible act”. The Amhara forces played a crucial role alongside the federal army during the brutal two-year war in the neighbouring Tigray region, which ended with a peace agreement in November. But Amhara nationalists accused the government of seeking to disband only Amhara forces in a bid to weaken the region, the second most populous in Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News May 01, 2023 22:28 UTC