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ESAT News (July 6, 2017) Five people have lost their lives to flash flooding in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa while several others sustained serious injuries. Anadolu news agency quoted emergency officials as saying that four people were intercepted by a heavy flood while crossing a river and the fifth fell into a river and taken by a raging flood. An ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2017) The United Nations refugee agency has voiced concern after 17 newly-arrived Eritrean asylum-seekers in eastern Sudan were taken by smugglers from a refugee camp, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The UNHCR denied reports that they had been kidnapped, saying they appeared to have had a prior arrangement with the smugglers. But the agency says it ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2017) Three Kenyan police officers were dead and seven others were reported missing after a gunbattle with suspected Al-Shabaab militants, Kenyan media reported. According to a BBC report, the militants staged a dawn attack against a police post in an area called Lamu, near the country’s border with Somalia. Six police officers were also injured in ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2017) A leading voice of dissent against the Ethiopian tyrannical regime and a pro-democracy campaigner who lives in exile in U.K. was granted bail after Scotland Yard charged him with terrorism offenses. His case was declared not suitable for a magistrate and was sent to a jury trial. The charge against Tadesse Biru Kersmo include possession ...