The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
The plan to declare a new region would be a direct challenge to the federal government and could encourage eight other ethnic groups to make similar demands. “Now the most important thing is peace for our people,” Million Tumato, president of the Sidama Liberation Movement Party, told Reuters. “Still the five months timeline is not […]
A fresh crisis is haunting Ethiopia as the small Sidama ethnic group is threatening to unilaterally declare on July 18 a new semi-autonomous region in defiance of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s federal government. The Sidama, who make up about 5 percent of Ethiopia’s 105 million people and are the largest of more than half a […]