Ethiopia’s government announced a state of emergency on Friday, following days of clashes between the federal security forces and local ethnic militia in the northern Amhara region. Both forces had fought alongside federal ones in the Tigray conflict, but now the federal government wants to centralize power. The government said it wanted to integrate local defense forces into the police and the national army, which sparked protests in the region in April. Amhara has been gripped by instability since April when federal authorities moved to disarm Amhara special forces. The internet has been shut down in several parts of the region, the Ethiopia-based Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy said Thursday. Do you think the federal government of Ethiopia need to decentralize security forces for the sake of peace ?
