In a sign of growing resistance on 21 May Eskinder Nega award-winning journalist and ex-leader of Balderas party in Addis Ababa launched the Amhara Popular Front to liberate the region and oust Abiy Ahmed...
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Eskinder Nega the vociferous leader of the Balderas opposition who has now taken up arms against Abiy protested against these projects and the displacement of people until he was jailed for 18 months...
Also freed were leading Oromo politicians Jawar Mohammed and Bekele Gerba of the Oromo Federal Congress (OFC) and Eskinder Nega chair of an Amhara political party based in Addis Ababa Balderas for True Democracy (AC Vol 62 No 13 War casts shadow over Abiy's election plan)...
EZEMA and Balderas for True Democracy led by Eskinder Nega (who was allowed to participate in the election despite being in jail) argued Oromo domination threatened Addis Ababa...
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The Oromo-led mayoralty denied the request and the authorities arrested supporters of chairman Eskinder Nega a former political prisoner (AC Vol 60 No 5 Abiy dining dangerously)...
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and it shall fail this time too' thundered Eskinder Nega an activist-journalist released from prison last year but now making new enemies among the ascendant Oromo nationalists (AC Vol 54 No 8 Toeing the party online)...
Blogger and journalist Eskinder Nega was sentenced to 18 years in gaol last July accused of inciting violence through a series of blog posts on diaspora websites...
