ESAT News (June 1, 2017) Ethiopian regime authorities have yet to give official explanations to the nationwide shutdown of Internet services on Wednesday which continued in some areas on Thursday. The country’s deputy communication minister as well as the sole provider of telecom decline to give reasons. The country’s deputy communications minister, Zadig Abrha, confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that ...

ESAT News (June 1, 2017) Ethiopia is listed among the bottom five countries that have become less peaceful in the 2017 Global Peace Index released on Thursday. The report said the East African country ranked 134th out the 161 countries included in the study. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the index shows, “Ethiopia suffered the biggest decline, both in the region and ...

ESAT News (May 31, 2017) Agencies warn that all available relief food stock will be depleted by the end of June, leaving at least 7.78 million people without food assistance post-June. Relief web, the information wing of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that given the deteriorating food security situation in the current drought belt, the ...

ESAT News (May 31, 2017) Ethiopian authorities cut off the internet all across the nation due to what people close to regime officials said was to “prevent the leaking of a national high school examination.” Google Transparency Report also showed that the internet was down about 11:30 GMT Tuesday in Ethiopia. There were reports that some connection was back in ...

ESAT News (may 30, 2017) An Ethiopian National Unity Convention held in Seattle over the weekend said in a resolution that a committee has been formed to work for the formation of a National Council that will make efforts to enhance the struggle for political change. The two day convention, which draws Ethiopians from different walks of life, says the ...

ESAT News (May 30, 2017) Eleven international rights organizations wrote a letter to members and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council to address the pervasive human rights crisis in Ethiopia. The civil society organisations said in a letter that they want the UNHRC “to draw its attention to persistent and grave violations of human rights in Ethiopia and ...

ESAT News (May 30, 2017) A small plane chartered by U.S. contracting firm Bancroft crashed at a Mogadishu airport on Tuesday morning, Xinhua, a chinese news agency, quoted witnesses as saying. A source at the Aden Adde International Airport said passengers who were aboard the plane survived but the incident caused flight disruptions at the airport, according to the report. ...

ESAT News (May 29, 2017) The Human Rights Council of Ethiopia says at least 19 people were shot and killed by regime security forces since the declaration of the state of emergency on October 8, 2017. The Council in its 142nd special report said extrajudicial killings, mass incarcerations and disappearances have continued in Ethiopia. The Council disclosed photos and names ...

ESAT News (May 29, 2017) Saudi Arabia issued exit visas to 40,000 undocumented Ethiopians to exit the Kingdom legally but the status of the over 700,000 undocumented laborers is still not clear. As the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the issuance of the exit visas, hundreds of thousands Ethiopians refused to leave the Kingdom uncertain about what would happen ...

ESAT News (May 29, 2017) Ethiopians with exceptional skill, professional excellence and community service were given awards and recognition at an annual gala organized by the Society of Ethiopians Established in the Diaspora (SEED). SEED’s 25th annual award dinner recognizes individuals in the Diaspora and in Ethiopia who made tremendous contributions to the betterment of the community and professionals whose ...