ESAT News (June 12, 2017) The Ethiopian regime has denied suggestions by UN officials that it will run out of emergency food aid for millions of people by the end of this month, the BBC reported quoting officials. The UN’s World Food Programme said 7.8 million people affected by drought would be left without food assistance. But Ethiopian officials put ...

ESAT News (June 9, 2017) The annual Fragile States Index (FSI) compiled by the Fund for Peace revealed that Ethiopia has become the most-worsened fragile country over the past year owing to economic disparities, poor access to internet and communications as well as failing health infrastructure, among others. “Ethiopia’s overall Fragile States Index (FSI) score has been incrementally worsening over ...

ESAT News (June 9, 2017) Over 250 people have reportedly fell victim to the cholera epidemic in 12 localities in the Amhara region, reports reaching ESAT reveal. The World Vision warned on Monday that cholera outbreak in the Horn of Africa is likely to worsen after recent rains, as 1,400 deaths have already been reported since January 2017. Cases of ...

ESAT News (June 9, 2017) Gunmen in South Sudan have ambushed a convoy travelling from Uganda to the capital, Juba, leaving 14 people dead including a number of soldiers. A military spokesperson has confirmed the numbers who were killed and added that nine others were wounded. He told the BBC that some of them are being treated in Juba. The ...

ESAT News (June 8, 2017) Students and residents of Ambo who spoke to News 24 say they expect protest against the regime will continue. “It’s a fire under ashes,” a judge in a district near Ambo told News 24. He believes the lull in protests against the government is just temporary and could be reignited like a fire covered with ...

ESAT News (June 8, 2017) Kenyan media reported that forty Ethiopians were rounded up in a house in Kayole on Thursday for being in the country illegally. The Star reported that the Ethiopians aged between 10 and 25 , could not speak English or Kiswahili, but told police through a translator that they were headed for South Africa. According to ...

ESAT News (June 8, 2017) Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has carried out a major assault on a military base in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, the BBC reported on Thursday. Its fighters killed 61 government troops and seized 16 vehicles in the dawn raid, the group said. A Puntland government minister has denied the high death toll, ...

ESAT News (June 7, 2017) World Vision warned that cholera and Acute Watery Diarrhea outbreak in the Horn of Africa is likely to worsen after recent rains, as 1,400 deaths have already been reported since January 2017. “Recent rains could lead to spike in child cholera cases across Horn of Africa,” the aid agency warned on Monday. The report by ...

ESAT News (June 7, 2017) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said attack on dissenters and social media shutdowns by the Ethiopian regime is a “considerable concern.” “The recent sentencing of opposition leaders, apparently for expressing dissenting views, is of considerable concern to me, as are the periodic shutdowns of social media,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said addressing the ...

ESAT News (June 7, 2017) Egypt is currently negotiating with Ethiopia the period of time over which the latter’s hydroelectric dam’s reservoir should be filled after construction is completed, Al-Ahram online reported quoting Egyptian officials on Tuesday. “Egypt is still discussing with Ethiopia an initial report issued by two firms tasked with assessing the impact of the under-construction Grand Ethiopian ...