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"It makes me laugh."

Aug 29 , 2020.

Musa Adem, an opposition politician and political scholar, said concerning what he perceives to be the narrow or insular perspective that "Oromo and Amhara elites" have in discussing the challenges, opportunities and fate of Ethiopia, during a discussion held among political parties for national consensus at the UN Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) hall.


PUBLISHED ON Aug 29,2020 [ VOL 21 , NO 1061]

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