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Ethiopia: Killing of university students reignite nationwide protests

ESAT News (December 12, 2017) The death of university students in ethnic clashes and at the hands of regime security forces have sparked nationwide protest against the TPLF regime. Protests were held in several universities and towns across the country. Reports say two students were killed in Wollega University and two others in Debre Tabor University. So far, classes have ...

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Ethiopia: Four killed in protest in Woldiya

ESAT News (December 4, 2017) At least four people were killed on Sunday when a spat between soccer fans turned a violent protest against the TPLF regime. Several sources told ESAT on Sunday that Agazi forces of the regime opened fire at Woldia City FC fans who had come out to protest hate speech and racial slur hurled at them ...

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Ethiopia: Protest continues in several towns

ESAT News (November 30, 2017) Residents of several towns in Ethiopia took to the street demanding an end to the TPLF rule. Protests in East and West Hararghe continued for the third day. Six people were killed in Gursum yesterday by the Agazi forces of the regime as they shot live bullets into the crowd of protesters. “Down, Down Woyane,” ...

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Ethiopia: Eight killed as protest continues

ESAT News (November 29, 2017) Security forces killed six people in Eastern Hararghe where protests have continued for several days against the TPLF regime. Chelenko, Gursum, Bedeno, Babile, Aweday are some of the towns in Eastern Hararghe where residents took to the streets to protest but met with deadly forces by security forces. Agazi forces of the regime and the ...

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Ethiopia: Thousands of university students left campus as protest continues

ESAT News (November 28, 2017) Protest by university students against the regime in Ethiopia continued as about 35,000 students of the Haromaya University left their campuses. The students of Haromaya University had left their campuses a week ago but returned as the Aba Gedas, traditional leaders of the Oromos, promised to broker a deal and obtain a favorable response from ...

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Ethiopia: Army accused of killing three, injuring nineteen in Borena

ESAT News (November 28, 2017) The Borena Zonal administration said in a letter to the prime minister and other government offices that regime’s army members had shot and killed three in a locality called Sodo in Dire district, while nineteen other were wounded. The letter published by several media outlets say the regime’s army had carried out the killings last ...

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Ethiopia: Chinese factory, several buildings set ablaze as protest against TPLF continues

ESAT News (November 10, 2017) Protests continued against the TPLF regime in East and West Shewa as several buildings were reduced to rubble. In Minjar Shenkora, North Shewa, protesters burnt a Chineses chipwood factory and disrupted a meeting by regime officials. Protesters in Chefe Donso, in East Shewa set ablaze courts, government offices, as well as the town’s municipality and ...

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Ethiopia: At least thirty killed in a week as ethnic clashes, protests continue

ESAT News (October 30, 2017) At least thirty people were killed in Ethiopia as ethnic clashes and anti-government protests have intensified in the country’s Oromo region. The killings of three people in Nekemte over the weekend brought the number of people who were killed in ethnic clashes and at the hands of Agazi forces to at least thirty in a ...

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Anti-govt protests continue in Ethiopia as two killed in Chancho

ESAT News (October 16, 2017) Protests continued for the second week in Ethiopia’s Oromo region as Agazi forces of the regime killed two people in Chancho, 32 miles north of the capital Addis Ababa. Protests continue in Jimma, Chancho, Sululta and Metu on Monday. Witnesses say in Metu, the local police and officials have taken part in the protests that ...

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Ethiopia: Secrete concentration camps revealed as mass arrest continues

ESAT News (November 22, 2016) Amid a year long popular uprising that led to the declaration of a state of emergency in early October, the regime in Ethiopia had created secrete concentration camps at various corners of the country where tens of thousands of innocent citizens have been detained. ESAT’s sources revealed that the regime had created secrete concentration camps ...

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