ESAT News (May 26, 2017) Ethiopians who spoke to ESAT from Saudi Arabia say they are not getting the support from their government, when they needed it most, as the deadline for the Kingdom’s amnesty to undocumented immigrants to leave the country expires at the end of June. A woman whose name is withheld told ESAT on the phone that ...

ESAT News (May 26, 2017) An engineer with the Ethiopian Air Force killed at least ten soldiers at an army meeting in Gode town of the Somali region of Ethiopia, according to ESAT’S sources. The Air Force officer is said to have been relocated to Gode and serve as a regular soldier as a demotion and punishment for being a ...

ESAT News (May 26, 2017) A newspaper editor in Ethiopia got a year and half in jail over Facebook comments he made five years ago. Journalist Getachew Shiferaw is the second person in a week to be sentenced by an Ethiopian court that is highly criticized for being an instrument of suppression for a regime known for its dismal human ...

ESAT News (May 25, 2017) An Ethiopian court sentenced a young politician and activist to six years and six months in jail over Facebook comments he made, the second person in a week to be convicted and sentenced by a justice system that serves a regime known for intolerance to its critics and journalists. Yonatan Tesfaye, the former public relations ...

ESAT News (May 25, 2017) The Ethiopian regime has completed preparations to handover disputed land to the Sudan despite objections on the part of the Ethiopian farmers who believe the land is historically theirs, according to ESAT’s sources. A joint military has been deployed in the border area to quash any resistance by the Ethiopian farmers, who believe their own ...

ESAT News (May 24, 2017) Hunger is likely to reach emergency levels in Ethiopia and the number in need of food aid will rise beyond the current 7.7 million, Thomson Reuters Foundation quoted experts as saying, as drought has decimated livestock, rains have been erratic and aid is in short supply. The report said prolonged drought, followed by floods, has ...

ESAT News (May 24, 2017) About 750,000 undocumented Ethiopians are at risk of forced deportation as the deadline for the Kingdom’s amnesty to undocumented immigrants approaches. Only about 8,500 Ethiopians have so far returned home but hundreds of thousands remain in limbo in Saudi Arabia. Economic hardship and fear of political persecution kept these immigrants in Saudi Arabia who seem ...

ESAT News (May 24, 2017) A court in Ethiopia passed a guilty verdict on a journalist over a Facebook comment he made five years ago, in what Amnesty International called “a further slap in the face for justice in Ethiopia and proof of the authorities’ continued willingness – despite its stated commitment to reform – to misuse the criminal justice ...

ESAT News (May 23, 2017) Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo met with U.S President Donald Trump in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh following the conclusion of the US-Arab-Muslim conference, Somali Presidential Communications officer confirms to local media. Somali Presidential Communications officer, Abdinur Mohamed was quoted as saying the two presidents talked on security collaboration between Somalia and the United ...

  ESAT News (May 23, 2017) Cholera epidemic is claiming the lives of hundreds in Ethiopia as a denier of the outbreak of the disease took the post of the director general of the world’s health agency. The outbreak of cholera, especially in the somali region of Ethiopia, has killed close to 800 people this year alone, according to a ...