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ESAT News (March 3, 2017) The Vanderbilt Law School’s International Law Practice Lab has submitted an amicus brief to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in a human rights case, Abubaker Ahmed Mohamed and 28 others v. the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the school announced in a press release.   Abubakar Mohamed and 28 others were jailed ...

  ESAT News (March 3, 2017) The Lawyer for Dr. Merera Gudina, detained and charged with alleged violations of the state of emergency and sedition, requested today for his client to be released on bail. Prosecutors for the Ethiopian regime accuse Gudina, the leader of the Oromo federalist Congress (OFC), and others of inciting the anti-government protest that rocked the ...

ESAT News (March 3, 2017) A UN multi-agency team that visited the Gambella region in February said at least 3,714 have been displaced following the cross border attack by the Murle ethnic group from South Sudan. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said successive cross-border attacks by the South Sudanese Murle ethnic group in July and January ...

  ESAT News (March 3, 2017) The council of the Montgomery County in Maryland declared the month of March Adwa victory month. The council says the victory at Adwa against the invading Italian forces in 1896 was an inspiration for African nationalism. Board member of the Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America, which campaigned for the recognition of Adwa by ...