Tigray Police Bans Demonstration Against Placement of Tigrayan Students in Amhara StateBy Staff ReporterOctober 20, 2019 (Ezega.com) – Tigray police banned planned demonstration scheduled to be staged in Mekelle city, the capital of the Tigray regional state of Ethiopia. The planned demonstration called by the Tigray Civic Society was to protest the placement of ethnic Tigrayan students in 10 universities in neighboring Amhara state. Public relations office head with the Mekelle city administration, Zemenfeskidus Fiseha, said his office did not receive a request letter from any party regarding the planned demonstration. The Tigray regional state late last week passed a controversial decision refusing the placement of 1st-year ethnic Tigrayan students to study in the country's Amhara region, saying their safety cannot be guaranteed. A territorial dispute between the elites of the Amhara and Tigray states remains unsolved while the former accuses the latter of supporting the Qimant people to destabilize the Amhara region.

Source: Ethiopian News October 20, 2019 19:41 UTC