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Toronto – Yenus Mohammed has been serving as a senior editor at the State-owned Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporate (EBC).
Normally, he shares updates on his social media page and is also regularly on the air on EBC. After weeks of disappearance, this week he shared his first update in weeks on his Facebook page.
“I have received repeated messages to know the reason why I disappeared from the Ethiopian Television screen after I was abducted by armed forces in the Amhara region of Ethiopia,” he wrote on Friday.
From what he wrote, he was abducted with some of his colleagues and remained detained for 13 days. And it appears they were on a working trip.
His release from the armed group did not seem to have a happy ending though. His employer, EBC, fired him, based on the update he shared on his social media page.
“The situation I experienced there [when he was abducted] and here causes heartfelt sadness. However, Thank God I was not without solace,” he added without sharing details of the experiences under abduction by armed groups. Where exactly in the Amhara region and under what circumstances he, and his colleagues, were abducted is unspecified.
However, he hinted that he is taking the matter with his employer to court and pleased support from friends.
The state owned media did not remark why it terminated Yenus.
Earlier this week, the Ethiopian government made claims that it is controlling over 80 percent of the Amhara region and that normalcy is restored.
However, the story of kidnapping of the state-owned media employee and news reports of battle losses by government forces from other local sources over the past few days seems to suggest that much of the Amhara region is still under the control of Fano Forces.
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