Ethiopia Insight posted on 31 May 2021 a commentary titled "Uncaring Addis Fuels Gambella's Cutthroat Communal Contest" by Okello Miru, who works with a non-governmental organization and is a candidate for Gambella State Council.
Gambella State hosts 340,000 refugees from neighboring South Sudan, which is more than the state's population of 307,000 according to the last Ethiopian census in 2007. The author argues that Gambella was treated as a backwater during the EPRDF regime and that continues to be so treated under the current government.
