Anti-government protesters in Ethiopia’s Oromia region have attacked a cement factory belonging to Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa.<\/p>\n
The demonstrators were protesting over the death of more than 50 people in a stampede on Sunday during an annual festival, Information NNG reported. The stampede occurred\u00a0after police shot tear gas into the crowd in a bid to disperse protesters.<\/p>\n
A Dangote Cement Factory in Ada Berge, Oromia was attacked on Tuesday. Protesters burnt down trucks, machines, cars and offices<\/a>, Fana Broadcasting reported.<\/p>\n Demonstrators also attacked and burnt down a police station in West Guji; several prisoners were freed<\/a> following the incident.<\/p>\n The Ethiopian government has been dealing with widespread protests, which has turned violent on several occasions. There have been reports of security forces clashing with unarmed protesters.<\/p>\n In September, protesters in Ethiopia’s Amhara region attacked a series of foreign-owned flower plantations<\/a> causing damages worth millions.<\/p>\n Belgian, Dutch, Indian, and Italian flower farms were among the foreign-owned facilities that have been assaulted in the region, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n Esmeralda Farms Inc., a Dutch firm which was attacked in Bahir Dar, has since closed its operations in Ethiopia due to the incident. The flower farm reportedly incurred damages of about $7.8 million.<\/p>\n Ethiopian authorities say although the constitution permits peaceful demonstrations, the ongoing protests are being orchestrated by forces looking to destabilize the country.<\/p>\n [Photo by\u00a0DFID – UK Department for International Development<\/a>\/CC BY 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n Anti-government protesters in Ethiopia’s Oromia region have attacked a cement factory belonging to Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa. The demonstrators were protesting over the death of more than 50 people in a stampede on Sunday during an…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10786,"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":[44,2872,2860,1],"tags":[4936,4938,4827,4937],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Oromo-Anti-Government-Protesters-Attack-and-Destroy-Aliko-Dangotes-Cement-Factory-in-Ethiopia.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779"}],"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=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10790,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions\/10790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}