This is the concluding part of our article, Ethiopia: A year after protests started – Timeline of events [1] which took a retrospective look at the events in Ethiopia a year after anti-government protests broke out. The AU has its offices in the country and their seeming silence on the protests in the country had raised eyebrows. As part of the protests that followed the festival stampede, protests kept spreading in the country. Merkel speaks on protestsGerman Chancellor, Angela Merkel, asked the Ethiopian government to allow protests and that police response to these protests should be proportionate. Meanwhile, some European governments – Germany and the United Kingdon – joined the United States in issuing travel alert for their nationals heading to Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News November 24, 2016 06:48 UTC