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Ethiopia hosts second largest refugee population in Africa, says UNHCR

ESAT News (October 18, 2018) The UN refugee agency said Ethiopia is host to the second largest refugee population in…

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Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed says protesting special commandos came to kill him

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 18, 2018) Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said few among the soldiers who came…

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Ethiopia: OLF disarming residents in East and West Wollega

ESAT News (October 17, 2017) Reports reaching ESAT say combatants of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), a separatist ethnic front,…

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Ethiopia to release hundreds of youth detained in military camp

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 16, 2018) The federal police commissioner said 1,204 youth rounded up in the capital…

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Ethiopia: Gender parity in Abiy Ahmed’s new cabinet

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 16, 2018) Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister appointed women in half of his cabinet positions…

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Ethiopia cracks down on illegal military training facility

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 15, 2018) Police in Ethiopia's western restive region of Benishangul-Gumuz say they have cracked…

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Ethiopia arrests leaders of special commandos for violating constitution, military discipline

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 15, 2018) Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian defense forces said the special commandos…

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Six killed in violence in western Ethiopia

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 12, 2018) Six people have been killed as violence continues in Ethiopia’s western region…

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Italy applauds Ethiopia reforms, grants $25M

ESAT News (October 12, 2018) Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who paid a two day visit to Ethiopia has said…

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Ethiopia: Lenco Latta concerned OLF remains armed as Dawud Ibsaa persists

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 11, 2018) A leading Oromo political figure said he was baffled by the position…

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