In a bid to quell a rising tide of unrest in East Africa’s most-populous country and one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Ethiopia said it would release thousands of political prisoners and shut a notorious detention center known for torture and abuses. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn told reporters from state-controlled media in the capital Addis Ababa on Wednesday that the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, or EPRDF, the ruling coalition he leads, will drop charges against political prisoners...

Source: Ethiopian News January 03, 2018 16:45 UTC