Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed visits Jijiga on Oromia-Somali peace mission

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed travelled on Saturday to a region where clashes have displaced nearly a million people, his first trip since being sworn in as premier five days ago.

Violence along the border of the Horn of Africa country’s Somali and Oromia provinces first erupted in September last year, with both regions blaming the other for the unrest.

The area has been plagued by sporadic clashes for decades. A referendum held in 2004 to determine the status of disputed settlements fai…
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