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Berhanu Nega (in baseball cap), with other opposition leaders, speaking to reporters in Addis Ababa in 2005 after elections won by his party were annulled by the regime.

A tenured US professor is leading an Ethiopian rebel group

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Berhanu Nega, on leave from Bucknell University, is trying to overthrow the government of his native Ethiopia.

Alexis Sinduhije, Samantha Power and Bryan Rich at the Committee to Protect Journalists awards in 2004

Burundi exile to US’s Samantha Power: ‘You shake the hand of the killers’

February 25, 2016Conflict

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