ESAT News (November 15, 2016) A court in Addis Ababa on Tuesday sentenced a newspaper editor to one year in prison for libel. A federal instance court in the capital passed the verdict on the case of Getachew Worku, editor-in-chief of Ethio-Mehidar, for an article he published about the Ethiopian Orthodox Church which the court found to be libel against ...
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Ethiopian migrants deported from Yemen under deplorable conditions
ESAT News (November 15, 2016) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports Yemeni authorities are deporting hundreds of migrants from the Horn of Africa to Djibouti under deplorable conditions. The migrants are mainly from Ethiopia. IOM does not assist governments in the forcible deportation of migrants but spokesman Itayi Viriri says the IOM is a humanitarian organization and as such ...
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