Protesters take to streets to declare new Ethiopia region
![](https://r58b8e.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/worldnewsdyil2auoc8za.gif?time=1720208035)
A political party representing some of Ethiopia’s ethnic Sidama people said on Thursday it would postpone plans to declare a new region in defiance of the federal government and would accept the offer of a referendum in five months’ time.