A bomb explosion in the town of Jimma, located in Ethiopia’s Oromo region has injured about 13 people, local media portals have reported. Jimma is one of the main towns in southwestern Ethiopia, a fertile region where the government in 2004 had planned to resettle hundreds of thousands of peasant farmers. Ethiopia was forced to impose the rule in the wake of spreading anti-government protests particularly in the Amhara and Oromia regions. People in the region have previously staged a shutdown to protest tax hikes by the government. Aside closed businesses, the BBC reports that road blocks have been mounted in parts of the region affecting public transport.

Source: Ethiopian News August 24, 2017 17:59 UTC