As Tigray calms, Ethiopia sees growing conflict in Oromia

By CARA ANNA
Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — As one deadly conflict in Ethiopia begins to calm, another is growing, challenging a government that’s eager to persuade the international community to lift sanctions and revive what was once one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies. Even as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attends the U.S.-Africa summit this week to promote last month’s peace agreement between his government and authorities from the country’s Tigray region, the larger region of Oromia appears increasingly unstable. Africa’s second most populous country, with 120 million people, is again wrestling with deadly tensions between ethnic groups and their armed allies.