Ethiopia: The Young Ethiopians Working for Peace

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Bule Hora, Ethiopia — In a hotel dining room in the southern Ethiopian town of Bule Hora, a group of young Ethiopians pin drawings of trees to the wall. Each tree, they explain, represents one of them - some of them ethnic Gedeos, the rest Guji Oromos - and together they make up a forest, symbolising their multi-ethnic society.

The group call themselves "peace ambassadors", and they are leading the way in putting a fractured and traumatised society back together again.

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