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Students at Ethiopia’s top religious college have been holding a hunger strike since Sunday, following Beyonce’s recent meeting with their patriarch, Abune Paulos. The singer and the patriarch met before she performed as part of celebrations of the country’s millennium. Student Daniel Techale said 30 of his friends had been hospitalized after the hunger strike and accused Beyonce of “provok[ing] the whole situation” while blasting the patriarch of “practically a nonreligious act. It’s unacceptable, or inappropriate, to say the least.”

Beyonce Ethiopia Hunger Strike | Hip-Hop Crunch