Ethsat.com: Assailants set trucks, buses on fire in northern Ethiopia

From: Berhane Habtemariam <Berhane.Habtemariam59_at_gmx.de_at_dehai.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 00:33:13 +0100

Assailants set trucks, buses on fire in northern Ethiopia

ESAT News (November 2, 2016)

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Unknown assailants attacked trucks and busses belonging to the ruling party on Tuesday in Gondar, according to ESAT’s sources.

The armed men ambushed and set ablaze the heavy duty truck belonging to Dashen Beer, owned by the business empire of the ruling party. Two medium size busses were also set on fire in the attack.

Several people were feared injured in the exchange of fire with security forces accompanying the truck.

Armed groups have launched similar attacks in the last few months in northern Ethiopia where anti-regime sentiments run high.

In Tis Abay on Monday, four people were killed when an armed person killed a federal police and injured two soldiers. The alleged assailant, Mikru Berhanu, was killed after the attack.

The attack came contrary to Ethiopian regime’s narrative that the state of emergency declared early in October has brought peace and stability in the country.

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Ethiopia: PM says regime may not provide protection to embassies

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Hailemariam Desalegn

ESAT News (November 2, 2016)

Ethiopia’s titular prime minister warns western governments that his security forces will stop protecting their embassies unless the favor is reciprocated by them.

Speaking to the parliament on Monday, where he also announced a reshuffled cabinet, Hailemariam Desalegn called on western governments to protect Ethiopian Embassies from activists and Ethiopians in the Diaspora who have been venting their angers and holding their embassies in protest for the killings and atrocities committed by the regime.

Speaking about Egypt, one of the countries the Ethiopian regime routinely accuses of fomenting the uprising in the country, Desalegn said some institutions in Egypt were found to have a hand in the unrest in his country.

The Ethiopian regime customarily blames neighboring Egypt and Eritrea for all the ills in the country.

Egyptian president Abdul Fattha Al Sisi last month denied his country had any hand in the uprising in Ethiopia. Similarly, Eritrean officials  has said accusations by the regime in Ethiopia is a futile exercise of externalizing its internal crises.

A year long protest has shaken the regime to the core and is making superficial changes to calm the widespread protests. Desalegn on Monday announced a new cabinet appointing new ministers but protesters are demanding removal of the regime, which is dominated and run by a minority Tigrayan oligarchy accused of dominating the politics and economy of the country.

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Ethiopian troops in Somalia refuse to return home

ESAT News (November 1, 2016)ethiopian-troops-in-somalia

Hundreds of Ethiopian troops in Somalia who have been fighting Al-Shabaab in that country have revolted, with dozens crossing to the Arabian peninsula selling their weapons.

According to ESAT’s military and intelligence sources, the soldiers, who are not with the regular African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), have not been paid their salaries for three months.

About 70 of the troops have sold their weapons and crossed the sea to the Arabian peninsula, while the rest have refused to join the troops returning home.

The troops, according to the sources, have revolted due to interruptions in their salaries for three months, ethnic favoritism in the Ethiopian army in which Tigrayans commanders act with impunity.

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