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ESAT News (May 24, 2017) Hunger is likely to reach emergency levels in Ethiopia and the number in need of food aid will rise beyond the current 7.7 million, Thomson Reuters Foundation quoted experts as saying, as drought has decimated livestock, rains have been erratic and aid is in short supply. The report said prolonged drought, followed by floods, has ...

ESAT News (May 24, 2017) About 750,000 undocumented Ethiopians are at risk of forced deportation as the deadline for the Kingdom’s amnesty to undocumented immigrants approaches. Only about 8,500 Ethiopians have so far returned home but hundreds of thousands remain in limbo in Saudi Arabia. Economic hardship and fear of political persecution kept these immigrants in Saudi Arabia who seem ...

ESAT News (May 24, 2017) A court in Ethiopia passed a guilty verdict on a journalist over a Facebook comment he made five years ago, in what Amnesty International called “a further slap in the face for justice in Ethiopia and proof of the authorities’ continued willingness – despite its stated commitment to reform – to misuse the criminal justice ...