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Rights activists and academic,Fekade Shewakena passes away

Many Ethiopians remember Fekade Shewakena as very tolerant person to political differences .He passed away this week in the United States.

May 10,2017
borkena, Ethiopian News

Fekade Shewakena one of prominent Ethiopian Rights activists based in the United States passed away, colleagues and media people reported.

He was initially fired from Addis Ababa University, where he taught for more than ten years, along with forty other faculty members soon after Tigray People’s Liberation Front took over power in 1991 under the leadership of the late Meles Zenawi.

In the United States, where he had been living for well over twenty years, he had a career as a researcher with a consulting firm.

Along with his human rights activist role, he made numerous appearances on Ethiopian Satellite Television and extensively wrote commentaries on Ethiopian sites.

He was also on facebook where write updates on current affairs and ESAT Special Documentary on Fekade Shewakena part 2 DAXUQ