Kalkidan Yibeltal
Tuesday August 15, 2023
Ethiopia’s lower house of parliament has approved a state of emergency declared in connection with the ongoing violence in the country’s Amhara region.
The cabinet had announced the emergency measure earlier this month.
The parliament’s session, unusually, was not televised but according to a report posted on the House’s Facebook page, the decree was approved with a majority vote.
Rights groups have already expressed concern over the decree as previous state of emergency declarations had led to accusations of abuses and mass detentions.