Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Police charge ex-deputy intel chief with corruption, torture

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2018) A former deputy head of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA)…

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Ethiopia: Former METEC boss arrested for squandering $57M

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2018) A former head for the power and engineering department at the Metals…

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Ethiopia: Premier vows to continue crackdown on suspects of corruption, human rights abuses

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 15, 2018) “Ethiopia should not be a country where some steal in millions of…

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Ethiopia: Col. Gebregziabher Alemseged “Gen. Gebre” arrested as search continues on corruption suspects

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 15, 2018) [Edited to correct errors in nick names] Ethiopia’s regiment commander in Somalia,…

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UN technical team in Ethiopia to discuss elections with all parties

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 14, 2018) A United Nations technical team is in Ethiopia discussing election laws and…

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UN lifts sanctions on Eritrea, which called it ‘belated’

  by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 14, 2018) The United Nations Security Council has today lifted a nine year…

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Ethiopia: Dramatic arrest of lead corruption suspect as he tries to flee country

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 13, 2018) A retired army Major General who led the country’s military engineering and…

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Ethiopia: Warrants issued for Abay Tsehaye, Maj. Gen. Kinfe Dagnew as arrest on army and intelligence officials continues

  by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 12, 2018) Court warrants have been issued for the arrest of former CEO…

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Ex-spy chief planned botched assassination attempt on PM: Prosecutor says

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 12, 2018) The general prosecutor said the former head of the National Intelligence and…

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Ethiopia: Over 40 officials of corruption riddled METEC, members of intelligence under arrest

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 10, 2018) The Reporter Newspaper published in Addis Ababa broke the news this morning…

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