Somalilandsun: Gambella State hosts 340,000 refugees from neighboring South Sudan, which is more than the state’s population of 307,000 according to the last Ethiopian census in 2007
But despite this extra load the Gambella people who were treated as a backwater state by the EPRDF regime continue to encounter the same treatment from current Ethiopian federal authorities argues Okello Miru, a humanitarian worker and candidate for Gambella State Council on a piece titled Uncaring Addis fuels Gambella’s cutthroat communal contest