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  ESAT News (March 20, 2017) The search for dead bodies at the site of a landfill in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa could take months, emergency workers told Reuters news agency. Residents say at least 80 people are still missing after the landslide, according to the report. At least 117 bodies were dug out of the garbage, official figures show. ...

  ESAT News (March 20, 2017) Two government officials accused of embezzling millions of dollars have reportedly left the country, according to ESAT’s sources. Director of the Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Fund and Supply Agency, Meskele Lera and his deputy Wondwossen Ayele  were accused of squandering close to 100 million dollars obtained from donor countries for the purchase and distribution of pharmaceuticals ...

  ESAT News (March 20, 2017) Ethiopia’s prisoner of conscience, Andargachew Tsige, has now spent 1000 days on Ethiopia’s death row, after the country’s security forces kidnapped and rendered him there in June 2014, Reprieve, an international human rights organization following his case said in a statement. An Ethiopian born British citizen, Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, a vocal critic of Ethiopia’s ...