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ESAT News (April 26, 2016) Tension continues in the Gambella region of Ethiopia following the killing of 21 Ethiopians last weekend by refugees from South Sudan as well as the killing of over 200 Ethiopians by the Murle tribesmen who crossed the border from South Sudan and abducted over a hundred women and children after perpetrating the killings. Security forces ...

ESAT News (April 26, 2016) Four of the 22 political prisoners detained on trumped up terrorism charges told a court in Addis Ababa on Tuesday that they were asked by prison officials to take pills that they neither ask for nor prescribed by their doctor. Refusing to take the pills, the four prisoners were separated from the rest and put ...

ESAT News (April 25, 2016) The Ethiopian government had allocated millions of dollars for cotton plantation in the last few years but investors who took the loans had only used a fraction of the money for the intended purpose. According to the Textile Industry Development Institute, about 3 billion birr (150 million USD) was loaned to investors but most of ...

ESAT News (April 25, 2016) According to a report filed by the Reuters, flash floods in drought-stricken parts of Ethiopia have killed people and livestock and are blocking food aid deliveries to hungry communities, a charity said. Ethiopians have been waiting for the spring rains to replenish water sources and to plant crops after the most severe drought in decades ...