ESAT News (May 17, 2017) Leaders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and Patriotic Ginbot7 Movement for Unity and Democracy (PG7)  on Wednesday reached a breakthrough agreement to wage the struggle in unison against the TPLF/EPRDF regime and work jointly to facilitate the formation of a broad based common platform for all democratic forces. “Both sides vowed that they ...

  ESAT News (May 17, 2017) Patriotic Ginbot 7, an armed group opposing the Ethiopian regime, says its forces have carried out a surprise attack against regime forces on Monday in Libokemkem, South Gondar, killing 13 and injuring 4. In a statement it sent to ESAT, PG7 says the attack was carried out on regime soldiers who were abusive to ...

  ESAT News (May 17, 2017) Aid agencies hope the anticipated rain in April would ease the persisted dry condition and have also positive contribution for the improvement of pasture and drinking water in the pastoral areas. Relief web, the digital service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said on Wednesday that the anticipated near ...

ESAT News (may 17, 2017) Defeating Al-Shabab militants in Somalia requires a “carrot and stick” approach that could eventually include political negotiations with the Islamist militants, the U.N.’s top official in the country tells Newsweek. Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, elected in February, has declared a state of war against the Al-Qaeda affiliate. The president offered a 60-day amnesty to ...

  ESAT News (May 16, 2017) A court in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa found opposition politician Yonatan Tesfaye “guilty” of terrorism due to Facebook comments he made during the anti-government protests a year ago. Yonatan Tesfaye was a spokesperson for the opposition Blue Party. International rights groups, including Amnesty International decry the charges against Yonatan were cooked up by the ...

  ESAT News (May 16, 2017) Two fuel trucks heading to Gondar from Sudan came under attack on Tuesday in Chilga, north Gondar. The two trucks were completely burnt and the drivers injured, according to ESAT’s sources. Patriotic Ginbot 7 forces took responsibility for the attack. The source said one of the drivers has been admitted to the Gondar Hospital. ...

ESAT News (May 16, 2017) Yemi Hailemariam, partner of Andy Tsege, Ethiopian born Briton held in Ethiopian jail, said she will stand against U.K’s Prime Minister, Theresa May in the general election in her seat to raise awareness of his plight, according to a report by i news. The report said with the help of supporters, Ms Hailemariam, from Islington, ...

  ESAT News (May 15, 2017) A British medical doctor said in an exclusive interview with ESAT that Dr. Tedros Adhanom, who is running for the top post of WHO, has covered up cholera epidemics, and hence he should be disqualified from the candidacy of WHO director-general position. Dr. Frank Ashall, who said he was himself a victim of cholera ...

  ESAT News (May 15, 2017) Reeyot Alemu, an Ethiopian journalist who endured solitary confinement, physical and mental abuse in jail, has written a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) opposing the candidacy of Dr. Tedros Adhanom, a person who was at the helm of a tyrannical regime in Ethiopia. She appealed to the World Health Assembly to reject ...

ESAT News (May 15, 2017) The Nile Council of Presidents summit, which the Ugandan president has called for, was postponed to mid-June rather than 25 May in the Ugandan capital Kampala, after an Ethiopian request, Daily News Egypt reported quoting local media. Ethiopia said that it needs time to study the Egyptian proposal about the Entebbe Agreement. The proposal is ...