The secretary general of Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ), Ato Andualem Aragie, who resides in Addis Ababa, said today that the kind of popular uprising that is currently taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen will also happen in Ethiopia. Ato Andualem told Serkadis News Service that living conditions in Ethiopia are far worse than those in Egypt and that the people of Ethiopia are subjected to gross human rights abuses.
The recent attempts by the Meles regime to prevent similar uprising by trying to to bring down commodity prices through price control and taking further repressive measures will not be effective, according to other observers in Addis Ababa. Read the full report here (Amharic).