More than 50 people have been arrested after an alleged coup attempt in an Ethiopian region, an opposition party says. National Movement of the Amhara (NaMA), said dozens of its supporters had been arrested. Police said earlier that several suspects were being questioned in the state where the alleged coup happened. Article continues after advertisementThe arrests follow the killing of the army chief, who was reportedly killed by his bodyguard in the coup attempt. The BBC’s Kalkidan Yibeltal in Addis Ababa says NaMA is an ethno-nationalist party essentially campaigning to advance the interests of the Amhara people, Ethiopia’s second largest ethnic group.

Source: Ethiopian News June 27, 2019 12:33 UTC