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  ESAT News (September 29, 2016)   Harassment against award-winning Ethiopian journalist, Eskinder Nega, who is serving an 18-year sentence following trumped-up terrorism charges, has continued unabated.   An inmate released recently disclosed to ESAT that prison officials have confiscated notebooks and other materials, including his bible, from the journalist and destroyed his personal belongings.     The former inmate ...

  ESAT News (September 29, 2016)   There is ample evidence that the  Ethiopian regime uses food aid as a political tool, Anuradha Mittal, founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute said on Thursday.   In an exclusive interview with ESAT in connection with the release of a new report on Ethiopia, “Miracle or Mirage? Manufacturing Hunger and Poverty ...

  ESAT News (September 29, 2016) Eight security forces have reportedly been killed in Benishangul Gumuz region, western Ethiopia, following clashes with the local people in an area known as Sherkolle, whose land has been give to gold prospectors from Tigray region. Over one thousand investors, all from Tigray, were recently given large tracts of land in the region to ...