ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament voted unanimously on Thursday to extend the country's state of emergency for another four months after Defence Minister Siraj Fegessa told it some "anti-peace forces" were still at large.
The state of emergency, imposed last October following months of deadly protests that killed around 500 people, had generally brought back stability although some areas were still "less calm," he said without elaborating.
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