A second wave of mass protests against a controversial government decision broke out on Friday in Gondar, a city in Ethiopia’s Amhara region.<\/p>\n
Demonstrators reportedly clashed with police officers<\/a> during the protest, BBC reported. Unverified images of the demonstration are currently circulating on social media.<\/p>\n Last Sunday, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Gondar to protest against a government decision<\/a> to place an Amhara district under the administrative jurisdiction of Tigray, a neighboring region.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said during a press briefing on Friday that although Ethiopia’s Constitution permits demonstrations, the recent protests in the country are illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hailemariam added that the sentiments expressed during the protests in Gondar and Oromia do not represent the entire public but forces looking to destabilize the country, Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported.<\/p>\n “The government is aware that the ideas and slogans reflected in the demonstrations do not represent the people of Oromo and Gondar,” he said.<\/p>\n The protests come after unrest in the region after demands that the Welkait community, which was recently placed under the Tigray region, be returned to Amhara.<\/p>\n The demonstrations and ensuing violence led the U.S. government to issue a temporary travel ban on Gondar. The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia issued the advisory warning its citizens residing in Gondar and those traveling there to be careful.<\/p>\n [Photo by Andrew Heavens<\/a>\/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n A second wave of mass protests against a controversial government decision broke out on Friday in Gondar, a city in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. Demonstrators reportedly clashed with police officers during the protest, BBC reported. Unverified images of the demonstration are…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2860,1],"tags":[4894,4893,4891,4892,2881,4895],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Protesters-Clash-With-Ethiopian-Police-During-Amhara-Protests-in-Gondar.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10581,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions\/10581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}