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TPLF officials instruct regional governments to carry out mandatory conscription

  ESAT News (June 23, 2016) Following a dismal failure to get the youth enroll in the army, regime officials have instructed regional governments to contribute their “quota” of a set number of people to join the army. The directive by the regime came after repeated announcements and attractive perks to get people register in the army have failed miserably. ...

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Armed man in Dengolo killed 6 regime police

  ESAT News (June 23, 2016) An armed individual in Libo Kemkem, Dengolo, has killed 6 regime police officers who went to arrest him and seized a sniper rifle from the police. The person identified by only his first name, Arega, was prepared to fight the forces based on tips he had gotten from residents in the area. Authorities have ...

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TPLF assigns senior members of the Front to ambassadorial and other diplomatic positions

  ESAT News (June 22, 2016) Ambassadorial and other diplomatic positions in most of the countries with significant diplomatic ties to Ethiopia have now been taken by senior members of the TPLF, it was learnt. The minority regime is replacing Ambassadors and diplomats from other ethnic groups with Tigrians. According to sources, Girma Biru, an Oromo, and ambassador of the ...

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Grenade explosion injures six children in Adama

  ESAT News (June 22, 2016) Six children have sustained serious injuries following a grenade explosion in Adama Woreda, East Shewa Zone, local media reported on Wednesday. The six children ranging from 5 to 17 and three other women sustained the injuries when one of the children, unbeknownst to her that it was a grenade, tried to sell it to ...

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76 year old senior sentenced to prison on bogus terrorism charges

  ESAT News (June 21, 2016) The tyrannical regime in Ethiopia sent a 76 year old elder in Arbaminch, south Ethiopia to jail for one year accusing him of hiding a weapon to carry out terror. Abebe Asfaw, 76, is a father of Befekadu Abebe, a member of the opposition Blue Party, who is serving 7 years on trumped up ...

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Protests in East Hararghe following the killing of a young woman

 ESAT News (June 21, 2016) Anti TPLF protests have gotten momentum in East Hararghe following the brutal killing of a young female student, Sabrina Abdella. Sabrina had just left a mosque where she was praying in this holly month of Ramadan when a thuggish officer of the regime shot and killed her. Police said the officer fired the shot to ...

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Political prisoner vows to continue hunger strike

    ESAT News (June 20, 2016) A political prisoner who appeared before court today said he would continue with his hunger strike until authorities allow visitation by his family and lawyer. Agbaw Setegn and 15 others appeared before court today but judges did not act on their case but adjourned until June 28, 2016. The defendants have been in ...

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Eritrea accuses US of instigating attack by the Ethiopian regime

ESAT News (June 20, 2016) Eritrea on Friday accused the United States of instigating the attack by the Ethiopian regime last week and also of the deployment of troops along the border. “Eritrea is aware of Washington’s instigation not only of the attack against Eritrea that the TPLF launched last Sunday, June 12, 2016 but also in its deployment of ...

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Ethiopian regime deploys troops near Ethio-Djibouti boarders

  ESAT News (June 17, 2016) The Ethiopian regime has deployed troops in the border town of Balho, inside the Djibouti territory to closely watch the armed resistance groups in the Afar region of Ethiopia. According to a report filed by the African Intelligence, the troops, headed by a colonel, were at least 150 and will watch over the armed ...

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Seven intelligence operatives killed in the last few months

  ESAT News (June 16, 2016) Unknown assailants have killed seven intelligence operatives of the Ethiopian regime in the last four months, according to sources. Three of the operatives: Zewdu Teklemariam, Sisay and Elias were intelligence operation coordinators for the Ethiopian regime in Somalia and the sources said their death could have an impact on the war against Al Shabaab. ...

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