ETHIOPIA: OROMO POLITICIAN ARRESTED AFTER SPEAKING TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Police arrested Merera Gudina for "communicating with a banned terrorist organization."Ethiopian security forces arrested a prominent opposition politician when he returned to the country after speaking to the European Parliament in Brussels about the country’s political crisis.
Merera Gudina is the chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), a party that represents the Oromo people, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group. Oromo activists launched protests against the Ethiopian government in November 2015, which have spread across the country and have seen more than 500 people killed in clashes with security forces.....Read More