After local opposition groups held mass rallies strengthened by the presence of influential activists such as Jawar Mohammed and moved towards forming an alliance officials loyal to Abiy's new Prosperity Party (PP) started erecting obstacles in the manner of its predecessor the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)...
The PP is formally committed to multinational federalism but that is not how opponents such as the Oromo powerbroker Jawar Mohammed see it...
Oromo activist Jawar Mohammed who runs the powerful Oromia Media Network also slammed the merger which he thinks could undo the Oromo struggle for autonomy and reduce groups' bargaining power at the centre...
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Now Ginbot 7 can rally Addis Ababans and other city-dwellers by highlighting the threat to the city from youth directed by hard-line Oromo activists such as Jawar Mohammed and Tsegaye Ararsa...
While online activists such as Minnesota-based Jawar Mohammed were regarded as being influential in stoking those events the latest round of demonstrations appear to have been organised without as much diaspora influence...
Social media activists especially United States-based Jawar Mohammed portrayed the tragedy as a massacre by Tigrayan soldiers and called successfully for 'Five Days of Rage'...
Online diaspora activist Jawar Mohammed who has become a distribution hub for information sent from the ground suggested on Facebook that protestors should vandalise industrial zones being built in Adama and other locations...