ESAT News (June 6, 2017) The United Nations warns that malnutrition looms in drought affected communities as food pipeline is breaking. About 8 million people currently receiving food assistance face malnutrition as Ethiopia runs out of emergency food aid from July 2017, according Relief web, the information wing of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Malnutrition rates ...

ESAT News (June 6, 2017) About 2,400 people (475 households) remain displaced in Gambella town following the flash floods caused by heavy rains in May, UN humanitarian sources said. According Relief web, a recent multi-agency rapid assessment led by the regional Disaster Prevention Food Security Agency (DPFSA) determined that the affected community need immediate food and non-food assistance. The report ...

ESAT News (June 6, 2017) At least 60 political prisoners were freed after anti-regime forces opened fire at a prison in north Gondar in town called Chinfaz Silara. One prison officer was killed and three others were injured. ESAT’s sources say armed men belonging to Patriotic Ginbot 7, a group fighting the Ethiopian regime freed the political prisoners in Silara ...

ESAT News (June 5, 2017) A former Ethiopian chief of staff says the regime in Addis Ababa should utilize all means necessary, including military force, to depose Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki. Lt. Gen. Tsadkan Gebretensay made the sabre-rattling remark in an interview with Addis Zemen, the daily state-run Amharic daily, in which he also said the Ethiopian regime should play ...

ESAT News (June 5, 2017) A leader of an opposition group says Ethiopian regime forces have been dealt with a serious blow in a two-day fight in Gondar. Speaking to supporters at a public meeting in Los Angeles on Sunday, Prof. Berhanu Nega, Chairman of the Patriotic Ginbot 7, a group fighting the Ethiopian regime, said it was one of ...

ESAT News (June 2, 2017) Ethiopia’s government has suspended adoptions, leaving dozens of foreign parents unable to unite with orphans they have legally adopted, according to officials from four western embassies whose citizens are concerned. The Agence France Press report the measure has also frozen hundreds of pending applications for inter-country adoptions, blindsiding families who have in some cases waited ...

ESAT News (June 2, 2017) Save the Children warned Friday that drought in Ethiopia could risk developing into a catastrophe if no immediate action is taken to avert the crisis. “The drought in southern Ethiopia has been going from bad to worse and risks developing into a humanitarian catastrophe if action is not taken immediately,” said John Graham, Country Director ...

ESAT News (June 2, 2017) Internet shutdown entered its fourth day Friday in Ethiopia with banks and businesses unable to function, negatively impacting the already struggling economy, an economy the regime and its allies like to call a miracle. Even the propaganda machines of the regime are not immune from the Internet cut-off. The online versions of all the major media ...

ESAT News (June 1, 2017) Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC. The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in Dirkou, Niger, Red Cross official Lawal Taher said. They say several children ...