addressed ethiopians as one nation. good luck to them. there was hope there was. you could take it as sort of obama's moment for ethiopians. the same approach but that. that i give him a torch. but whether i'm now the freedom of the press or to open up the space for political position art even to restore peace. to what i'm going to listen. to. it just. i was very much impressed by his articulation his vision and how he would like to change things quite. different we. spoke. about that yemen but. many years back again. wired to prime minister abbey ahmed's rise to power ethiopia had had just two prime ministers in twenty three year olds. who spent his seventeen years consolidating power around his ethnic group the to. and. whose leadership only preserve the status quo ignoring widespread calls for a full. during that period ethiopia's democracy was stained with sham elections and clamped down some media criticism to coney and legislation such as the two thousand and four criminal code and the two thousand and nine anti terror proclamation was repeatedly abused land

and welcome to the program i'm elizabeth arrived on the grand renaissance stand being built an ethiopian is planned to be the largest hydroelectric power plant in africa but the multi-billion dollar project was she the o.p.'s says is vital for its future economy it's dogged by dispute and delays in egypt and also rely on the revenue. egyptian farmers fear they'll have less water to irrigate their fields ethiopian government leaders deny they'll cause water shortages talks have been deadlocked for months and leaders have valid to iron out their differences peacefully egypt's far most us on the issue of korea and head of intelligence met ethiopia's prime minister on monday for the latest talks. his prime minister is warning that the dam and his words may not see the light of day and blames the company run by the ethiopian military for the delay. there's a problem in the management of the project this is the case when it comes to all huge projects being executed here in the local company who are seeking the mission did not have enough experience we had to do reforms because the projects are

you could take it as a sort of obama's moment for ethiopians. the same approach but the southern yemen. that i get back. to you but where there are now the freedom of the press or to open up the space for political position are given to restore peace. to what are going to listen. to. the judge. and i was very much impressed by his articulation his vision and how he would like to change things quite. different we. spoke. about that yemen but. many years back again. wired to prime minister abbey ahmed's rise to power ethiopia had had just two prime ministers in twenty three year olds. who spent his seventeen years consolidating power around his ethnic group the to griet and. whose leadership only preserve the status quo ignoring widespread calls for a full. during that period ethiopia's democracy was stained with sham elections and clamp down some media criticism draconian legislation such as the two thousand and four criminal code and the two thousand and nine anti terror proclamation was repeatedly abused thousands of journalists and political a

despite the ethiopian or thirties tight control of the mainstream media and the internet social media platforms like facebook and twitter broken government hold on information increased access to smart phones and improvements in internet connectivity the tech savvy ethiopians to use social media to talk politics. by twenty fifteen massive demonstrations against government land grabbing and the owner of the original broken out social media proved crucial for the coordination of protests and the airing grievance. giallo mohammed an activist and journalists from our media became a key player from his base in the united states beyond the reach of the ethiopian authorities four years ago he turned his living room in minnesota into a kind of newsroom hosting an tweeting eyewitness accounts of government abuse for his millions of followers back home sharing protests tactics and strategies and using his platforms to help ethiopians connect you cannot imagine the. result. before all the world. record the video and send the last swath through facebook and we take that we verified we edited and

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why were the ethiopian troops sent in the first place . well for a while now prime minister. reforms he has initiated in the country been trying to change some of the. regional leaders and the government the federal government had been accusing the administration in the somalia region of cutting out. human rights abuses against the people and it is that refusal government officials say the regional president that he's to come. that led to the troops being deployed. wouldn't mean that if the ethiopian prime minister was correct in his assertion that there was abuse going on in this region people would have welcomed those ethiopian forces with open arms i guess. yes but what you should understand. that ethiopia is an ethnic federal state where they are nine major regions that are based on the ethnicity of the people living next to and enjoy a. hold on so people were really shocked to see federal forces in their midst something that reminds them of course. when they have lived under subjugation and control of the central government so these also politicians taking advantage of t

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addressed ethiopians as one nation. to them. there was hope there was. you could take it as a sort of obama's moment for ethiopians. but the southern yemen. that i give him a torch. but where there are now the freedom of the press or to open up the space for political position are given to restore peace. to his or to. listen. to. it just look at them. and i was very much impressed by his articulation his vision and how he would like to change things quite. different we. spoke. about that yemen but. many years back again. hired to prime minister ahmed rise to power ethiopia had had just two prime ministers in twenty three year olds. who spent his seventeen years consolidating power around his ethnic group the to. whose leadership only preserve the status quo ignoring widespread calls for a full. during that period ethiopia's democracy was stained with sham elections and clamped down some media criticism to coney and legislation such as the two thousand and four criminal code and the two thousand and nine anti terror proclamation was repeatedly abused thou

international committee of the right across says nearly one million ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes after a surge in local violence fighting between the auto mall and goodale people has been taking place along the border areas of goodale and west. paula zahn reports. these ethiopian families sheltering in a courthouse fled for their lives there among the nearly one million people displaced over the past four months conrad and goodness two men and mumbling got on get we came here because we were attacked we left our village empty handed to save our lives we travelled and spent three days in the bush to get here for these internally displaced goodale people say they were attacked by mobs of oromo which is the largest ethnic group in ethiopia many don't have food and clean water and they're at risk of malnutrition and diseases like pneumonia that it is a gimmick but i doubt even men my husband got sick and i could not help him i intended to go out and beg but i was shy his health deteriorated further and finally he died. the good day of say local and federal authorities did

international committee of the red cross says nearly one million ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes after a surge in an eye for volunteers in the fighting between the romo and people has been taking place on the border areas of the day and west googy. force. these ethiopian families sheltering in a courthouse fled for their lives there among the nearly one million people displaced over the past four months conrad and their two men and one thing that i'm getting we came here because we were attacked we left our village empty handed to save our lives we traveled and spent three days in the bush to get here of these internally displaced because they owe people say they were attacked by mobs of oromo which is the largest ethnic group in ethiopia many don't have food and clean water and they're at risk of malnutrition and diseases like pneumonia that it is a gimmick that guy got out even when my husband got sick and i could not help him i intended to go out and beg but i was shy his health deteriorated further and finally he died. the good day oh say local and federal authori

these ethiopian families sheltering in a courthouse fled for their lives there among the nearly one million people displaced over the past four months conrad and goodness two men and i'm going god i'm good we came here because we were attacked we left our village empty handed to save our lives we traveled and spent three days in the bush to get here of these internally displaced goodale people say they were attacked by mobs of oromo which is the largest ethnic group in ethiopia many don't have food and clean water and they're at risk of malnutrition and diseases like pneumonia that it is a gimmick but i got out even met my husband got sick and i could not help him i intended to go out and beg but i was shy his health deteriorated further and finally he died. the good day oh say local and federal authorities didn't protect them the government denies the accusation and says it's arrested hundreds for inciting violence. the age old ethnic tensions boiled over after prime minister up beyond that took office in april ahmed isn't oromo and the good day oh people believe the or almost feel empower

violent destruction of the meeting by of dillies opponents that was taking place in a different ethiopian regional states and this comes of the allegation that the people who disrupted this meeting were forces or supporters loyal to a hoot illegally crossed the border into that other ethiopian region thirdly he was someone to us about to discuss these issues with the if you can prime minister he refused and instead he ordered his own regional forces out onto the street. streets of the capital of the somali region and that's when we saw federal forces being deployed so i mean the government has said it's going to take all necessary measures to restore order what do they mean by that well so far we've seen that the point of the theo peon army and federal forces into the city a logical next step you may see coming out of the ethiopian government is the declaration of a state of emergency in this part of ethiopia now what this would do is this would legitimize the deployment of federal forces also give the under the constitution the authority for the federal government to take direct control

these ethiopian families sheltering in the courthouse fled for their lives there among the nearly one million people displaced over the past four months. two men and we came here because we were attacked we left our village empty handed to save our lives we traveled and spent three days in the bush to get here. these internally displaced goodale people say they were attacked by mobs of a romel which is the largest ethnic group in ethiopia many don't have food and clean water and they're at risk of malnutrition and diseases like pneumonia that it is a good guy got out even my husband got sick here and i could not help him i intended to go out and beg but i was shy his health deteriorated further and finally he died . the good day oh say local and federal authorities didn't protect them the government denies the accusation and says it's arrested hundreds for inciting violence. the age old ethnic tensions boiled over after prime minister up beyond that took office in april ahmed isn't oromo and the good day oh people believe the or almost feel empowered by his rise to office we've seen a

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the international committee of the red cross says nearly one million ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes after a surge in local violence fighting between the auto mowen goodale people is taking place along the border areas of goodale and west. the chief financial officer of donald trump's business empire has been granted immunity from prosecution vizsla bags being questioned as part of an investigation linked to michael cohen he's trumps far more power in a lawyer but federal prosecutors say he won't face. charges i did jocasta reports from washington d.c. . president donald trump was a beat in front of an audience of supporters in ohio friday our economy is absolutely booming jobs are surging factories are returning steel is doing better than any industry just about anywhere in this country anywhere in this world but beneath the surface a legal crisis is threatening to engulf his presidency. on tuesday two of trump's close allies became convicted felons the president's former campaign chairman paul man a fort was found guilty of bank and tax fraud and trump's longtime person

says nearly a million ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes after a surge in local volunteer fighting between their almost day people has been taking place along the border areas and west. these ethiopian families sheltering in a courthouse fled for their lives there among the nearly one million people displaced over the past four months. two men and we came here because we were attacked we left our village empty handed to save our lives we traveled and spent three days in the bush to get here. these internally displaced goodale people stay there were attacked by mobs of oromo which is the largest ethnic group in ethiopia many don't have food and clean water and they're at risk of malnutrition and diseases like pneumonia that it is a good guy got out even my husband got sick and i could not help him i intended to go out and beg but i was shy his health deteriorated further and finally he died. the good day of say local and federal authorities didn't protect them the government denies the accusation and says it's arrested hundreds for inciting violence. the age old ethnic tens

embassy says the ethiopian military has taken control of highways government buildings and the airport into gita. well listen somali province has been plagued by violence for the past three decades at the heart of the conflict is tension between ethiopian somalis who make up six percent of the population and the majority of people in neighboring province as well as territorial battles of a grazing land there's also the issue of oil wealth not being evenly distributed since coming to ethiopia's new prime minister ahmed who's almost himself has preached a line of unity while trying to assert more federal control of a somali provinces paramilitary soldiers loyal to the local government there have been accused of taking part in ethnic violence against the arm over which has claimed hundreds of lives and displaced tens of thousands of people since twenty seventeen mom of the duo has more now from neighboring djibouti fears that. in the city of a couple of the somali region of ethiopia federal troops continue to arrive some of them by plane and friday residents of the city was surprised to s

after at least fifty people were killed in fighting and ethnic violence in the east it began when ethiopian troops were sent from the capital addis ababa to the eastern somali states to arrest regional officials there they clashed with local forces for the violence followed us with reports of groups of ethnic somalis attacking other civilians two churches have been burned and businesses looted and destroyed political leaders in the somali state of long called for it to be part of neighboring somalia. the health ministry in the democratic republic of congo says three more people have died from the latest outbreak of the a bolo virus the number of confirmed cases has risen to thirteen the world health organization says this outbreak poses new problems because it's in north keith province several armed groups are fighting there. course in zimbabwe have denied bail to more than twenty opposition supporters have been charged with inciting public violence the leading opposition candidate says the charges are politically motivated six people were killed on wednesday when soldiers opened fire at a

after at least fifty people were killed in fighting and ethnic violence in the east it began when ethiopian forces were sent from the capital at a suburb to the eastern somali state to arrest regional officials there they clashed with local forces further violence followed with reports of groups of ethnic somalis attacking other civilians political leaders in somali state of long called for it to be part of neighboring somalia. the islamic state of iraq and the levant has executed a druze teenager from the syrian village of shopkeepers according to local media that's in the southwestern province of. mohammed was one of thirty six people mostly women and children kidnapped by eisel last month the nineteen year old was killed on thursday after negotiations to release the hostages failed leading syrian scientist reportedly involved in missile development has been killed in an explosion he was as easy as and his driver also died in the blast me at massey outside of hama in twenty twelve an armed group killed another senior scientist in damascus. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is accusi

and, therefore, because of ethiopians riches and strategy which to extract goods from that country out through eritrea, i think we're going to be seeing a lot of russian pmcs popping up there. >> since w we're right there, let's go just one seat down. right there, ma'am. >> thanks so much for speaking today. i just have a quick question, with the tools that we have available and knowing that we should be working with international law and that these companies work outside of that in this sort of gray zone, what recommendations would you have for the west to combat this threat using the tools we have available? >> first of all, the threat is not primarily military. the threat is fundamentally political. really we need to strengthen the economic and political keep it those of the states to deal with the problems they had so that conflicts don't erupt in them are between them. which is what provides rush with opportunities. russia doesn't really create opportunities as much as it exploits them. we've talked about and others have written. also, there has to be much more serious attention p

jake: very international, a lot of great ethiopian food.ow do we hold future candidates to a higher standard of factual integrity? i feel it to deal with this every day -- i feel like you deal with this every day. people in this room do not subscribe to the local newspaper, please subscribe. [applause] newspapers and local news in general is really where the rubber meets the road in terms of holding candidates to standards. i don't mean members of congress only, school board, there is a big thing going on in broward county about how much the school who run thee people school board were asleep at the switch when it came to the horrible shooter in broward county. ofortunately, i do see a lot people in local elections mimicking the language of the president in terms of fake news. congressman duncan hunter accuse the justice department -- he was indicted a couple of days ago, the same days about all of the other stuff i was telling you misusing campaign funds. you should google it, is quite a story. they booked a flight for their pet rabbit. in

government has normalized relations with the if european government support was not forthcoming the ethiopian government removed all liberation front from the role of terrorist organizations a distinction they were labelled by the former government just last month. the top stories here on al-jazeera iran's foreign minister has held talks with his north korean counterpart with u.s. sanctions on a name that's come into effect wow magellan's a reef met a young hole in tehran was being seen as a defiant message for the u.s. president. trumpeted that the sanctions are the most biting ever and calls and has warned businesses not to work with iran our white house correspondent kimberly how can some of them are listening. well the governments are doing one thing business is doing something very different of the last couple of hours we have news that the french automaker peugeot citroen and even dollar all saying they will not do business with a rod so certainly the u.s. continue to wield some clout given the fact that it holds the the u.s. dollar is the world's currency the question comes though when

the international committee of the right across the says nearly one million ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes offer a surge in local violence fighting between the oromo on goodale people is taking place along the border areas of cardio and west googy that a surge in tensions is threatening to undermine the new prime minister iberia ahmed's efforts said unity. some robberies. as code has upheld the result of last month's presidential election and says there's no proof of irregularities emmerson moment god won narrowly won the vote but the opposition has refused to accept what it calls fake results will be sworn in on sunday those are the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera after witness i'll be back in about twenty five minutes but for now. carolina. where i'm going. and then table than a hundred indifferent. to walk to. go. from one to me tony gendall using their time on the. as a man i know how to get his home to get. and then proclaim. her interest to you for trying to call her after the shredded records of history give us the fall of two to receive your turn

leading to a standoff with local paramilitary forces motto has more from neighboring djibouti the ethiopian federal government seizes the stick in this rare step to issue a security is brought back to the somali region a statement from the prime minister's office hinted the local administration i'm going rule being on the verge of announcing the suppression of the region from the rest of the country the government communication minister spoke on national television saying the federal government was now in charge of security and i missed all the somali regional be theo about federal troops and policemen have been deployed he also said that the commission of inquiry has been appointed to look into what caused the clock today about the left fifty people dead the minister also said. the government is going to ensure in the coming days to appointment of a political leadership for the region around the world people are marking the twenty year anniversary of simultaneous us embassy bombings in kenya and dar es salaam in tanzania and nairobi a prayer meeting was held to remember the day suicide bom

rest is continuing ethiopian government force. was moved into a rest regional leaders in the somali region in the east of the country federal troops took control of the capital of that region off the being met with resistance by paramilitary forces loyal to the government let's get more on that story now joining us via skype from frankfurt is said dolly lemma she is editor in chief of the standard an online news magazine thanks very much for being with us this is this is quite a complicated story isn't it just to set the scene for us. of what happened yesterday and what's behind it. thanks for having me yes indeed this is a very complicated history and story but what happened yesterday. the events that led to yesterday's intervention by the federal government police force and an army force begun actually unfolding on wednesday and thursday when so much i mean every time a state government and police force the paramilitary police force what we call them came to drain to another neighboring city to disrupt meeting by elders who have

of around one hundred sixty thousand there and if you are going to work it is if we look at the ethiopian government website you'll see some ali is actually one of eleven such regional states or city administrations as they call that has its own flags it functions basically as a as an autonomous region sort of autonomous region within. mohamad joe is over in djibouti reporting from there at the moment he knows all about this sort of. stories from this part of the region. there is a tense standoff in the city of to kick up a couple of the somali region of ethiopia federal troops continue to arrive some of them by planes and on friday residents of the city was surprised to see federal troops rolling into the city with tongues. at this point the local or special police exchanged fire with the federal troops and this created some confusion in which. began something that's so the entire market of looted to churches and up to fifty people losing their lives the government in addis ababa justifies why it sends the troops saying that there was a rift between the regional administration and the fe

and welcome to the program i'm elizabeth rodham the grand renaissance stand being built an ethiopian is planned to be the largest hydroelectric power plant in africa but the multi-billion.

important tovery watch how the russian/ethiopian because of the agreement that was signed between ethiopia and eritrea recently that was brought together by the uae with a $3 billion investment into ethiopia , as part of a larger move for allowing russia into that part of africa. in addition to that, you're seeing ethiopia get closer to moscow on religious grounds which is part of the expanding tactic from the christian middle east. because of ethiopia's riches and the strategy to extract goods from that country out through we are going to see a lot of russian pmc's popping up there. let's go one seat down. thanks so much for speaking today. i have a quick question. with the tools we have available and knowing that we should be working with an international law and these companies work outside of that in the gray zone, what recommendations would you have for the west to combat this threat using the tools we have available? >> the threat is not primarily military. it's primarily political. to strengthen the economic and political capabilities of these states to deal with the problems they h

ethiopian president haile selassie appeared before the united nations.t on until my tardy allies appear, and if they never, i say to you without bitterness, the west will perish . members of the league halfheartedly stopped trading with italy, but they failed the only thing that would stop any aggressor, force. ethiopia was left to herself. leaders came to pledge their allegiance. [foreign language spoken] witheople of ethiopia, their spears and bare hands, faced the guns and tanks at the invaders, fighting desperately and gallantly to save the country from conquest. [explosions] [bombs whistling] they fought and they died, but in the end there could be but one result. might triumphed. italy concord ethiopia. many of our elected leaders warned of the danger. war,thout a declaration of and without warning or justification of any kind, civilians including vast numbers of women and children, are being ruthlessly murdered with bombs from the air. narrator: but we were still hypnotized by the fact that two broad oceans stood between us and the rest of the wor

face of violence in a very short space of time the international committee of the red cross and its ethiopian affiliates are trying to help they're distributing blankets sleeping mats water and medical supplies but the surge of violence in southern eat the opium could fuel similar disputes in other regions the violence could undermine the new prime minister's sweeping reforms to ease tensions among eighty ethnic groups in a population of one hundred million cultured or gian al jazeera. sports is coming up soon and his back is sans dennis s to mean grab status gold at the asian games show best have the option to stay with us. when the us has all collapsed this university professor became a millionaire and a criminal on the run. fifteen years old his daughter embarks on an extraordinary journey to find him. my six million dollars father a witness documentary on al-jazeera. a journey both dark. blue there's a very for everybody there's a lot of corruption and beautiful lake the beautiful lady you have to be very patient and audi's also the city has ascended he can see how i was introduced to in

who is due to fly to alibi an ethiopian today from the shelter gaulle airport outside paris. to wait for brother thomas york team with a sign to grab his attention. and it works. so that the law that i will do sign is deposit as i said it is for the girl to go raise. the level work of school and i see the liveries i. will. take it live here it may have said off and if it isn't it is all in the lining of his eleven. this is like going on inside of. the bus in your book on the commute those i wouldn't know it was a people that we keep a wonderful if it will let you off the phone with the sound off don't want to have didn't if i keep my cough. and it was funny you know most businesses don't go with it it will whip up with everything so it will come with a high that comes out of putting speaker didn't let me. know that it's been given out what was in my movie because it is still sort of like a story as a music student from hell the father moeller to commit to start up the executives roles on the. second film a lot of the flaws in the book was thinking that this is the most votes

been plagued by violence for the last three decades at the heart of the conflict is tension between ethiopian somalis who make up six percent of the population the majority of people in neighboring army a province as well as territorial battles over grazing land there's also been the issue of oil wealth not being evenly distributed since coming to power ethiopia's new prime minister ahmed who's a romo himself has preached a line of unity while trying to assert more federal control over somali province paramilitary soldiers loyal to the local government there have been accused of taking part in ethnic violence against iraq which is claimed hundreds of lives and displaced tens of thousands of people since two thousand and seventeen the central government is also accused the region's officials of human rights abuses just last month senior prison staff were fired after details emerged of torture at a prison there or how to doha's more from neighboring djibouti. there is a tense in the city of a couple of the somali region of ethiopia federal troops continue to arrive some of them by planes and. a

figure within ethiopia for his efforts to push the half finished four point eight billion dollars ethiopian grand renaissance dam project over hurdles of domestic corruption and opposition from sudan and egypt which fear the power generating dam could reduce their agricultural water supply ethiopia says that they will let the water pass through to generate as much as sixty four hundred . megawatts of electricity doubled their current level making them a net energy exporter mr because it was an abaya for an announced press conference addressing project delays leading to anguish suspicion and speculation across the of the o.p.'s to why mr kelly may have been murdered. as we reported last time the july jobs report is out and while the number of jobs created rose by one hundred fifty seven thousand it was be low what many expected that said there are on average each month this year two hundred twenty four thousand jobs created that's above this time last year the unemployment rate nudged down a tenth of a percent to three point nine percent and here to break it down further is conservative t.v.

the ethiopian federal government taken this rare step to issue a security is brought back to the somali region a statement from the prime minister's office hinted at the local administration. being on the verge of announcing the suppression of the region from the rest of the country the government communication minister spoke on national television saying the federal government was now in charge of security analysts ocean off the somali region of youth europea and that federal troops and policemen have been deployed he also said that the commission of inquiry has been appointed to look into what caused the clashes on saturday that left fifty people dead the minister also said. the government is going to ensure in the coming days to appointment of a political leadership for the region to wildfires have merged to become the largest in california's history firefighters say the blaze mendocino is still growing further south in orange county a new fire is burning swarms of land people have been told to leave their homes as a precaution the army is sending troops to help emergency crews battl

most part now back in tropical africa received significant rain recently in sudan and south sudan ethiopian eritrea and as you can see there is a long way north in chad right up into the southern so hard. the weather sponsored by cats on race. where were you when this idea popped into it whether online it's undoubtedly chief goal of overseeing inequality in society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like for you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change join the conversation on our. again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour. facebook says it's found evidence of attempts to end florence the upcoming u.s. midterm elections it says it's removed thirty two fake accounts that were being used to sway the outcome of the polls two in november. passenger plane has crashed in northern mexico shortly after takeoff one hundred three people on board the brazilian jet survived but most of them sustained injuries and were taken to

i think it's very important now to really watch how the russian, ethiopian relationship. i think because of the agreement that was signed between ethiopia and eritrea just recently, that was brought together by the uae with the $3 billion investment into ethiopia, is part of a larger move for allowing russia into that part of africa. in addition to that you are seeing in ethiopia get closer to moscow on religious grounds, which is part of the expanding tactic from the christian middle east, and, therefore, because of ethiopia is strategy in which to extract goods from that country out through eritrea, i think that will be seeing a lot of russian pmc popping up there. >> since we are right there let's go just one seat down. right there. >> thanks so much for speaking today. i just have a quick question. with the tools we have available and knowing -- knowing that these companies go outside of that in this gray zone, what recommendations would you have for the west to combat this thread using the tools that we have available? >> first of all, the threat is not primarily mil

the ethiopian federal government say that can these rare step to issue a security is brought back to the somali region a statement from the prime minister's office hinted at the local administration. being on the verge of announcing the suppression of the region from the rest of the country the government communication minister spoke on national television saying the federal government was now in charge of security analysts ocean off the somali region of ethiopia and that federal troops and policemen have been deployed he also said that the commission of inquiry has been appointed to look into what caused the clashes on saturday that left fifty people dead the minister also said that the government is going to ensure in the coming days to appointment of a political leadership for the region. ivory coast france didn't alexander ouattara has issued an amnesty for the wife of former leader laurent gbagbo simone bibo is one of eight hundred citizens what are said he had pardoned during the state address in two thousand and fifteen she was convicted of offenses against the state during a