The East African said ethnic violence was the dark side of Abiy Ahmed’s early reforms

In June 2019 The East African described ethnic tensions and displacement as the dark side of Abiy Ahmed’s reform period, pointing to refugees who had fled fighting around places such as Shawa-Bare into camps like Sessi near Moyale in Kenya.

The regional paper argued that political opening and peace diplomacy had not stopped local mass violence, cattle theft, and revenge cycles that pushed people across borders, which matched other mid-2019 reporting on rising misery inside Ethiopia.

Kept as politics archive, The East African feature dates the regional press verdict that ethnic conflict shadowed Abiy’s early reform image.

Sources: The East African