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  ESAT News (March 17, 2017) Agricultural productivity has declined to 2.5 % from 7% due to the severe drought in the country but food security has been achieved, Hailemariam Desalegn said in a contradictory statement. Addressing the parliament on Thursday, the prime minister said the drought in some regions of the country has negatively impacted agricultural production. But he ...

  ESAT News (March 17, 2017) The Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that now is the time for Ethiopia to give the UN Working Group access, and stop hiding its rights record from scrutiny. Senior researcher with the right group, Felix Horne, said although the regime announced this week that some of the restrictions of the state of emergency ...

ESAT News (March 17, 2017) South Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that gunmen from the Murle tribe in Boma State had carried out an attack on Ethiopia’s Gambella region and fled along with dozens of children. An Ethiopian envoy was in Juba on Thursday to find the abducted children and discuss security issues along the common border between ...