People of Borena, south Ethiopia stage protest rally

ESAT News (July 21, 2016)

People in Borena, Oromo region in south Ethiopia held a demonstration on Thursday denouncing the maladministration, corruption and injustice under a tyrannical regime.

Students and residents of Yabelo town in Borena have also expressed their outrage that they were being administered by incapable, uneducated and corrupt officials directly appointed by the regime in Addis Ababa.

The demonstrators also spoke of lack of infrastructural and educational developments in the area.

They said the town of Moyale and its environs has been administered by two regional governments – the Somali and Oromo regional governments – which they said was the reason for the region to remain underdeveloped.

The eight month old protest in the Oromo region of Ethiopia has gained momentum this week as the people in east and west Hararge, as well as west Shewa held protest rallies in their respective localities of Asebot, Hirna and Jeldu.