Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Tigray special police killed five in Alamata

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 22, 2018) Tigray region special police have killed five residents of Alamata, a town…

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Ethiopia: Ex-president of Somali region attempted to escape prison, police say

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 19, 2018) Police told a court in Addis Ababa today that the ex-president of…

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Amnesty calls for release of rights defender and lawyer

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 19, 2018) Amnesty International called for the immediate and unconditional release of a lawyer…

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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: Eight injured in protest demonstration in Afar region

ESAT News (October 17, 2018) Special forces of the Afar region in Northern Ethiopia have shot and wounded eight people…

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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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