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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday announced inscribing Ethiopian Epiphany on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Heritage.

Seven Oromo and Amhara political parties, including the two in the ruling coalition, have agreed to avert the escalating ethnic tension and clashes between Amhara and Oromo university students.

The ruling coalition in Ethiopia, the Ethiopia Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is set to merge with the five affiliate parties.

Aysha Ibrahim is a mother of ten children who lives in Darolebu district, an area located in eastern Ethiopia, where ethnic Oromos and Somalis live alongside one another. The 42-year-old is among the over 8,433 households displaced by ethnic violence that occurred in December 2017.

Pushing his reform agenda, Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) today appointed a new defense minister, which is hopped by many to ease the political tension between the military and the people in Oromia and Amhara Regions, among others.