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    Ethiopia, Accused General of Failed Coup Shot Dead

    Posted On 25 Jun 2019
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
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    By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –

     

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Etthiopia
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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- New Africa Business News has being following it’s sources in Ethiopia,  the person suspected of governing control of Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region was shot dead on Monday and cohorts have been arrested.

    General Asamnew Tsige of masterminding gun attacks on Saturday night that killed five people including the national army’s Chief of Staff and Amhara’s State President.

    Tsige was shot on Monday near Amhara’s capital Bahir Dar, the prime minister’s Press Secretary Negussu Tilahun intimated the media. He declined to give any other details.

    The reasons behind the attempted coup in the state remain unclear, although it may have been a reaction from Asamnew to a plan by state officials to rein him in after they were alarmed by reports of his ethnic rhetoric and recruitment of militias.Saturday’s violence unfolded in two separate attacks.

    Army Chief of Staff Seare Mekonnen and a retired general were shot by Seare’s bodyguard at his residence in the national capital Addis Ababa.

    Amhara state president Ambachew Mekonnen and an adviser were killed in the region’s main city Bahir Dar. Amhara’s attorney general was also shot, and died of his wounds on Monday according to state media.

    Access to the internet appeared to be blocked across Ethiopia, users reported. The streets of Addis Ababa appeared calm on Monday.

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has pushed through sweeping changes since coming to power in April last year, making peace with Eritrea, reining in the security services, releasing political prisoners and lifting bans on some outlawed separatist groups.

    The reforms in Africa’s second-most populous country have won him widespread international praise.

    But the premier’s shake-up of the military and intelligence services has earned him powerful enemies at home, while his government is struggling to contain powerful figures in Ethiopia’s multitudinous ethnic groups fighting the federal government and each other for greater influence and resources.

    The shooting in Bahir Dar at the weekend occurred when the state president – an ally of Abiy – was holding a meeting to decide how to stop Asamnew’s open recruitment of ethnic Amhara militias.

    Asamnew had told the Amhara people to arm themselves and prepare for fighting against other groups, in a video spread on Facebook a week earlier. Amhara is home to Ethiopia’s second largest ethnic group and gives its name to the state language, Amharic.

    Asamnew himself was released from prison last year after receiving an amnesty for a similar coup attempt.

    William Davison, an Ethiopia analyst at global think-tank Crisis Group, said more information was needed on the attack on Seare.

    “It doesn’t appear to have been a concerted national coup attempt. It’s not obvious what the motivations were for anyone to assassinate the chief of staff, or

    whether he had any connections to the violence in Bahir Dar,” he said. “More detail is needed on that aspect.”

    Long-simmering ethnic tensions in Amhara and other areas has surged since Abiy’s reforms. At least 2.4 million people have fled fighting, according to the United Nations.

    Ethiopia will observe a day of national mourning on Monday, parliament speaker Tagesse Chafo said on state television.

    Ethiopia is due to hold parliamentary elections next year, although the electoral board warned earlier this month that they were behind schedule and that instability could cause a problem for polling.

    For New Africa Business News Abdul Rahman Suagibu Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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