Ethiopia: Continued Marginalization of Gambella State

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Ethiopia: Continued Marginalization of Gambella State
Gambella regional state of Ethiopia

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