ESAT News (September 12, 2017) An estimated 5000 Sidamas were evicted from Bale Zone following orders by local authorities. A witness told ESAT that the lives of thousands is in peril. The witness said the about 5000 Sidamas have settled in Chiri district in Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Authorities have ordered the Sidamas, who lived in Bale in harmony with ...
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ESAT News (September 12, 2017) Two people were killed and several others wounded in the ongoing clashes between the Somali and Oromo communities in Eastern Ethiopia as the president of the Somali region, Abdi Omar, reportedly decreed the Oromos to leave the region. The Oromos held protest rallies in Aweday, Deder, Kobo, and Chinaksen towns today against the violent actions ...
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ESAT News (Sept. 11, 2017) Israel Chemicals (ICL) files a 198M dollars compensation suit against the Ethiopian government for losses it incurred due to the latter’s “failure to provide the necessary infrastructures and regulatory framework.” ICL ended its potash project in Ethiopia in October 2016 after the Ethiopian government assessed what ICL called “unjustified and illegal tax assessment.” A local ...
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