Ethiopian politician’s visit to University ...
Shiferaw Shigute, left, watches a presentation from the International Livestock Research Institute on Sept. 16, 2011 alongside other officials from Ethiopia's southern region. The location of the photo is unknown. The University of Saskatchewan says it was only made aware of an Ethiopian politician’s alleged controversial behaviour a few days prior to his arrival on campus but that had it found out about the accusations against Shiferaw Shigute earlier, it still would have welcomed him to the U of S. Shigute is the president of Ethiopia’s southern regional state and the chairman of the board at Hawassa University, located in the region’s capital city Hawassa. He visited the U of S from June 10 to 15 alongside other delegates from the Hawassa campus. A few days prior to Shigute’s arrival, U of S president Peter MacKinnon received a handful of open letters from human rights organizations and individual activists accusing Shigute of ethnic cleansing and corruption, among othe