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ESAT News (December 23, 2016) The United Nations Security Council failed on Friday to adopt a U.S.-drafted resolution to impose an arms embargo and further sanctions on South Sudan despite warnings by U.N. officials of a possible genocide in the world’s newest state. Reuters reported that there were seven votes in favor and eight abstentions. A resolution needs nine votes ...

  ESAT News (December 23, 2016) Human Rights Watch said Thursday that while it is a good news that the regime in Ethiopia freed close to 10,000 prisoners following massive anti-government protests, the detainees shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place. Senior researcher for the Horn of Africa at the Human Rights Watch, Felix Horne, said in a dispatch ...

ESAT News (December 23, 2016) Miruts Yifter, two-time Olympic gold medalist and a runner who earned the nicknames “the gear shifter” and “yifter the shifter” for his fast dash at the last rounds of competitions, died in Canada at the age of 72. Winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics in 10,000m and 5,000m and bronze in ...