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METEC squanders $36M in failed Afar steam power station
by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 21, 2018) As corruption by the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) continues to be uncovered, sources close to a steam power project in the Afar region say the military industrial complex has wasted $36M, leading to the project to come to a screeching halt. METEC, which took a contract from the government’s Ethiopian Electric ...
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Ethiopia: Sixty-five members of national defense force held in Tigray dungeon
ESAT News (November 20, 2018) At least sixty-five members of the national defense force have been held in a secret dungeon in Tigray and were feared to have been tortured, according to information reaching ESAT. The soldiers, held in a place called Kuya, are mainly targeted due to their ethnic linkage. They are Oromo and Amhara except 4 soldiers who ...
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BREAKING: Police put freeze on land, property of Getachew Assefa, Maj. Gen. Kinfe Dagnew and 400 other corruption suspects
by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 20, 2018) The crime investigation bureau of the federal police commission sent a letter to ten offices of land administration in the capital to identify and compile information on over 400 suspects of corruption while it put a freeze on their land and property until further action by courts, according to a document sent ...
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