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ESAT News (November 17, 2016) Ethiopia should immediately release all journalists detained amid an intensifying crackdown on the media, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. In recent weeks, Ethiopian authorities have jailed Getachew Worku, newspaper editor, as well as two members of the award-winning Zone 9 bloggers’ collective, which has faced continuous legal harassment on terrorism and incitement ...

ESAT News (November 17, 2016) Reports say there has been heavy fighting between regime soldiers and freedom fighters in Kafta, Humera in north Gondar. Representatives of the Patriotic Ginbot 7 in north Gondar, an armed group based in neighboring Eritrea fighting the regime in Ethiopia, say the group has been attacking regime forces in north Gondar for the last one ...

ESAT News (November 17, 2016) A close relative of the former dictator Meles Zenawi, who leased the Ghion Hotel, a landmark in Bahir Dar twenty-two years ago without public auction, run to his hometown in Tigray to hide after a court warrant was issued to arrest him. Woldu Wolde-Aregay was given the Ghion Hotel on a miniature lease payment of ...