Ethiopia to remove OLF, ONLF and Patriotic Ginbot 7 from terror list

Ethiopia’s government has put forward a recommendation to parliament to take three rebel groups off the country’s list of terrorist organisations.

The groups – Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and Patriotic Ginbot 7 – have each been engaged in armed struggles against the government in Addis Ababa.

“Cabinet has submitted a resolution to Parliament for ratification that will rescind the designation of OLF, ONLF & Ginbot 7 as terrorist groups,” Fitsum Arega, the Ethiopian prime minister’s chief of staff, said on Twitter on Saturday.

“The decision will encourage groups to use peaceful political discourse to achieve political ends,” Fitsum added.

Source: Aljazeera