Ethiopia rarely gets coverage here, although Chinese investment in a railway appears elsewhere and the US has a "drone relationship", well did till recently. I did catch reports on disorder and a government "crackdown" all over a planning dispute; missed the scale:
Rights groups say that at least 150 protesters have died and another 5,000 have been arrested by security forces.
This BBC article is a swift overview of a state that faces "small wars" out in the countryside:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35325536