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  ESAT News (March 28, 2017) Five thousand of the over twenty-thousand protesters detained en mass under Ethiopia’s state of emergency would be brought to court. The “command post” charged with overseeing the martial law disclosed that 26,130 people were detained at the height of the protest last summer in the Oromo and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. It said about ...

  ESAT News (March 28, 2017) The federal high court in Addis Ababa on Tuesday sentenced sixteen people who were allegedly plotting to carry out “acts of terrorism” were with prison terms ranging from four to thirteen years. The accused were alleged to be members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). The charge by the prosecutor reads the accused, among ...

ESAT News (March 28, 2017) Aid agencies say the “shocking” killings of six aid workers in South Sudan on Saturday is causing them to re-assess how and when they can deliver supplies. The BBC reported that the victims were ambushed by unidentified attackers when travelling between Juba and the town of Pibor to the northeast. Oxfam said the attack “demonstrates ...