Ethiopia / Horn Of Africa / News / Irreechaa / Culture / Africa NEWS: PROTESTS BREAK OUT AT IRREECHA HORA FINFINNE FESTIVAL IN ETHIOPIA’S CAPITAL addisstandard / October 2, 2021 / 5.2k Ireecha Hora Finfinne celebration Source: EBC By Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba, October 02/2021 – Protests calling for the release of political prisoners, PM Abiy Ahmed downfall and praising the Oromo Liberation Army commander widely known as Jaal Maroo broke out in Addis Abeba today in the midst of Irreecha (The Oromo Thanksgiving) 2021 celebrations. In a heavy presence of federal police, people gathered in the early hours of the morning at Hora Finfinne in the center of the Capital Addis Abeba to perform rituals. Not long after, protesters started shouting slogans like “Jawar, Jawar, Jawar”, “Down Down Abiy”, and “Maroo”. Sources on the ground told Addis Standard that although the security apparatus response ha...
The Afghan central bank ran down most of its U.S. dollar cash reserves in the weeks before the Taliban took control of the country, according to an assessment prepared for Afghanistan's international donors, exacerbating the current economic crisis. The confidential, two-page brief, written early this month by senior international economic officials for institutions including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said the country's severe cash shortage began before the Taliban took control of Kabul. It criticised how the central bank's former leadership handled the crisis in the months before the Taliban's conquest, including decisions to auction unusually large amounts of U.S. dollars and move money from Kabul to provincial branches. "FX (foreign exchange) reserves in CB's (central bank) vaults in Kabul have depleted, the CB cannot meet ... cash requests," the report, seen by Reuters, said "The biggest source of the problem is the mismanage...
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