#Africa Ethiopia: Investors rattled by unrest

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A demonstrator (L) dressed in military fatigue joins members of the Oromo, Ogaden and Amhara community in South Africa as they demonstrate against the ongoing crackdown in the restive Oromo and Amhara region of Ethiopia on August 18, 2016 in Johannesburg. A massive deployment of police in Ethiopia's restive Oromo and Amhara regions prevented fresh anti-government protests over the weekend of August 13 and 14, 2016, an opposition leader said August 15, 2016. Small-scale protests were however reported over the weekend in at least three locations in Amhara region in the north and one in the central Oromo region. Ethiopian opposition parties have been decimated by the arrests of leaders and members in recent years, often under a broadly-applied anti-terrorism law. / AFP PHOTO / GULSHAN KHAN

Foreign investor confidence in Ethiopia has been shaken following nearly a year of unrest, with the country’s government now admitting that as many as 500 people have died as a result of police crackdowns and a deadly stampede at a recent rally in the country’s Oromia region.…

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