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October 16, 2018  The noble word Freedom means different thing for different contemporary elites. For some, it means to do anything they feel like it to their fellow compatriots with impunity. For others, it is simply a transaction i.e. what is good for me is good enough for the rest.

[Photo: file] ESAT News (October 17, 2017) Reports reaching ESAT say combatants of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), a separatist ethnic front, has been disarming non-Oromo residents in East and West Wollega. Resident who spoke to ESAT said the OLF soldiers had confiscated their weapons that they said have owned

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 16, 2018) The federal police commissioner said 1,204 youth rounded up in the capital Addis Ababa last month and detained in a military camp would be released on Thursday. The youth were detained last month as police carried out arrests following ethnic motivated attacks

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 16, 2018) Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister appointed women in half of his cabinet positions in a move to ensure gender parity in a government hitherto dominated by men. “Of the 20 cabinet members, 10 or 50% are women,” Abiy Ahmed told MPs as he

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 15, 2018) Police in Ethiopia’s western restive region of Benishangul-Gumuz say they have cracked down on an illegal military training facility in the region. The regional police commissioner told the Ethiopian Television that about 400 trainees, mostly teenagers, were undergoing military training at the

Seare Mekonnen, Chief of Staff by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 15, 2018) Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian defense forces said the special commandos that showed up at the National Palace last week and demand to speak to the Prime Minister have violated the country’s constitution and the military