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  ESAT News (January 5, 2017) The Ethiopian regime announced on Wednesday that it has released 10,000 prisoners in the Oromo region but local opposition political party says up to 70,000 people still remain in jail. Mulatu Gemechu of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress told the Associated Press that an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people have been detained in the ...

  ESAT News (January 5, 2017) The foreign currency crunch in the country has resulted in a surge in the price of imported goods, according market analysts. Businesses also reported a deep decline in the amount goods imported from abroad due to the severe shortage of foreign currency. The regime is forced to import only essential items such as medicines ...

ESAT News (January 5, 2017) The New York based defender of the rights of journalists called on the immediate release of two Ethiopian journalists sentenced to prison terms on Tuesday by a court in Addis Ababa. The Committee to Protect Journalists also condemned the prison sentences handed down to  journalists Khalid Mohamed and Darsema Sori from the Ethiopian faith-based station ...