ESAT News June 14, 2013 Ethiopian securities have abducted a few teachers from Debre Tabor town, of South Gonder Zone, “on suspicion of links with the armed Amhara Democratic Force and Ginbot 7 Movement”, sources in the area told ESAT preferring to remain anonymous. The current whereabouts of the teachers is unknown. Some of the detained [...]
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Securities in South Gonder abduct teachers
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Over 400 names of traders, officials, whose accounts were frozen, made public
ESAT News June 14, 2013 The Ethiopian Federal High Court on a letter written on May 21, 2013, number 134048, has ordered that the bank accounts, monies and cars of 429 government officials, businesspeople and their family members be frozen and impounded. The 429 people include suspects of corruption who are currently imprisoned and their family [...]
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ESAT Daily News Amsterdam June 14, 2013 Ethiopia
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UDJ urges Ethiopia and Egypt to cease bellicosity
ESAT News June 15, 2013 The Ethiopian opposition political party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), has released a press release titled “A Party committed to use everything for political consumption, endangers a country’s sovereignty”. The Party’s presser urged Ethiopia and Egypt to cease making bellicose statements, stop spreading propaganda that could harm the people [...]
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ESAT Daily News Amsterdam June 15, 2013 Ethiopia
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Sixty, who were watching ESAT, detained
ESAT News. June 16, 2013 Over sixty people, who have been watching ESAT Television in Bale Robe and Goba cities of South Central Ethiopia, have been detained in Genale Prison, ESAT has been informed. Although the people have been detained due different reasons, the alleged reasons that were given by police when they appeared in [...]
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Security around GRED heightened
ESAT News June 16, 2013 Security sources told ESAT that Ethiopia has tightened its security around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GRED) by placing expensive Chinese and Russian made radars. In addition to planting the radars, the government has deployed some members of the special commando, Agazi Force, around the Dam in order to defend [...]
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Invited Chair of Blue Party speaks to 35 Ambassadors in Addis
ESAT News July 11, 2013 Engineer Yilkal Getenet, Chairman of the opposition Semayawi (Blue) Party, delivered a speech to over 35 foreign Ambassadors in Addis Abeba last week. The Chairman was invited to speak at the annual “Partners group” meeting in the American Embassy in Addis Abeba. The Development Assistance Group (DAG), which is [...]
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UDJ readying for Sunday’s mass demonstrations in Gonder and Dessie
ESAT News July 11, 2013 Despite the continued arrest and harassment by the government, the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) has continued its campaign and promotion of the public demonstrations it has called in Dessie and Gonder towns, Northern Ethiopia on July 14, 2013. The demonstration is called to protest the human rights abuses, [...]
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Forum says its application for demo refused
ESAT News July 12, 2013 Forum for Democratic Dialogue in Ethiopia (Medrek), an opposition political coalition founded in 2008, has stated that its application to the Addis Abeba City Administration for the recognition of the mass demonstration that it planned to hold from Sidest Kilo to Dilachen Statue in Addis Abeba on July 14, 2013 [...]
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Residents of Injibara express their grievances
ESAT News July 13, 2013 Residents of Injibara in Awai Zone of Northern Central Ethiopia have boldly expressed their grievances about lack of good governance to government officials at a recent meeting held in the town. A businessman that resides in the town said that most reports presented by local officials are produced only [...]
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As the Ramadan fasting season befalls, Ethiopian Muslims heap on protests
ESAT News July 13, 2013 Ethiopian Muslims have heaped on their peaceful Friday protests in different parts of the Country. The protesters in Addis Abeba have echoed the following slogans “Is there no government?, The murder of Sheikh Nur Imam is a drama, the Drama should stop, free our leaders, illiterates cannot lead us, the [...]
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Blood of prisoners spills in Kilinto Prison due to beating
ESAT News July 16, 2013 The problem started when sixty-nine prisoners in Kilinto Prison and under the file of Teshale Korne, who were supposed to appear before court on July 11, 2013 did not appear in the courtroom. The head of the prison, nicknamed by many as Shabia, told them that their date of appointment [...]
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ESAT Daliy News Amsterdam July 16 2013 Ethiopia
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Over 10 detained including a mother
ESAT News July 19, 2013 A mother of a two months old baby and 10 other people have been detained in Woldia, North Central Ethiopia, residents of the town told ESAT. They were arrested on suspicion that they may organize protests following the regular Friday prayers of Ethiopian Muslims. Ibarahim Gebeyehu, Kedir Muhamed, Hayat Yimam, [...]
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Bodies of people killed by Leyu Police in Eastern Oromia eaten by hyena: HRLHA
ESAT News July 19, 2013 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) in a press release sent to ESAT said that three innocent civilians have been killed, and two others wounded in the Eastern Oromia’s RegionalState, in Ethiopia, in a violence that involved the Federal Government’s special force known as Leyu Police ten [...]
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ESAT Daliy News Amsterdam July 19 2013 Ethiopia
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ESAT Dalily News DC July 19 2013
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Ethiopian Muslims continue to peacefully protest
ESAT News July 20, 2013 Though the government thought that Ethiopian Muslims would decrease their peaceful protests in the Ramadan season, the peaceful Friday protests have increased in different parts of the Country. Police have also begun taking measures in some parts of the Country. Ethiopian Muslims in Woldia town, North Central Ethiopia have been [...]
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Prisoners in Kilinto say they are “on the verge of death”
ESAT News July 22, 2013 After sixty-nine prisoners in Kilinto Prison, who are charged under the file of Teshale Korne, were severely beaten by Prison Administrators and since they did not eat for consecutive days, the prisoners have said that they are now on the verge of death. In their letter, the prisoners said soldiers [...]
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