Commentary: Marginalization, anger and protest in South Omo Zone: What Prime Minister #AbiyAhmed Should Know - addisstandard.com/commentary-mar… @RealAsressGikay takes us off the media's beaten track with this commentary about the lives, fears and despairs of the people of #SouthOmo.

Farmers have been consistently traveling for kms to complain to the relevant S. Ari Woreda admin of the deterioration of their farm lands located adjacent to the road construction due to debris from heavy digging as well as the exposure of their lands to flooding & soil erosion.

This photo taken from Metser shows the dense mixtures of plants including coffee, false banana & yam & others. In the area affected by the urbanization everything in the picture above was indiscriminately cut by a group of people who claimed they were assigned by the local admin