Photo: ENAAddis Abeba– Field Marshall Berhanu Jula, Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, announced the end security organizational structure for regional special forces, “as of today”, state media reported. Field Marshall Berhanu proclaimed this at a review session of the regional special forces reorganization process into federal and regional security institutions attended by by members of defense generals, federal police and regional officials. “From today there is no organization and structure called regional special force”, state media quoted him as saying. Accordingly, the work of transporting regional special forces to their assigned places and putting them into training based on their choices of reintegration will start. The statement was issued following reports of discontent among the Amhara region special forces after the plan to reorganize regional special forces into regular police and the national army was unveiled.

Source: Ethiopian News April 15, 2023 19:28 UTC