Growing outcry in Ethiopia over abducted university students

Ethiopians are expressing anger and frustration over several university students, most of them female, who remain missing after their kidnapping two months ago.

A growing social media campaign echoes the #BringBackOurGirls activism in Nigeria over the mass kidnapping there of scores of schoolgirls in 2014. Ethiopians are pressuring the government for answers in the abduction in the Oromia region.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has been praised for appointing women to prominent positions "but with regard to the abducted girls, in its silence, it is violating a tremendous number of their human rights," Yared Hailemariam, director of the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia, said in a statement on Monday.

"Ethiopian authorities have failed to protect the victims of the abduction and to take necessary measures to bring them back."
"We are living in an anguish every day. We are crying every day. We want to know whether they are alive or dead. No one is giving us any information."