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ESAT News (January 31, 2017) Chadian Foreign Minister, Moussa Faki Mahamat, was elected on Monday as the new chairperson of the African Union (AU) commission replacing outgoing South Africa’s Dlamini Zuma, Sudan Tribune reported on Tuesday. Mahamat assumed AU’s top post after an election held Monday by AU heads of State and Government, who form the Assembly of the African ...

  ESAT News (January 31, 2017) Ethiopian government banks have released additional loans to agricultural investors in Gambella despite findings by a government sponsored investigation that about 250 million dollars has been squandered by the investors. Land grab in Gambella and the associated waste of millions of dollars in the name of development by Tigrayan investors have been the subject ...

  ESAT News (January 31, 2017) The death of a student last week at the Adigrat University in Tigray has been called suspicious by family and friends as authorities deny autopsy and security forces accompany the body all the way to the burial, preventing family members from inspecting the body of their loved one. Shume Lema, from the country’s eastern ...