ESAT News (May 4, 2017) Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo cut short his official visit to Ethiopia after the death of his younger minister. The 31-year-old minister, Abbas Abdullahi Sheik Siraji, was killed when his car was targeted by government forces who mistook him for a militant. Following the news of the death of the minister, president Farmajo announced ...

ESAT News (May 3, 2017) The Ethiopian regime, the third worst jailer of journalists in the world, continue to detain bloggers and journalists under trumped up charges of terrorism on this World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2017. While democracies celebrate the day, dictatorships like Ethiopia locked their young and bright minds behind bars, putting freedom of speech and of ...

ESAT News (May 3, 2017) Somalia’s new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, is in Ethiopia on Wednesday in a much-anticipated meeting aimed at smoothing over decades of mistrust. Farmajo has been criticised for waiting three months before going to Addis Ababa, according to a report by Radio France International. The Radio quoted Gérard Prunier, a French historian specialising in the Horn ...

  ESAT News (May 2, 2017) Reports reaching from Gondar say at least three soldiers were killed on Tuesday as their convoy came under attack in Addis Zemen near Metmiku Yohannes Monastery. The convoy was heading from Gondar to Bahir Dar when it was ambushed by Patriotic Ginbot 7 forces that took responsibility for the attack. A driver for one ...

  ESAT News (May 2, 2017) Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany on Tuesday called on the Ethiopian regime to lift the state of emergency declared in October 2016 following a two year anti-government protests that left hundreds of people dead in the hands of security forces. According to a report by Deutsche Welle Amharic Service, Sigmar Gabriel, who ...

  ESAT News (May 1, 2017) The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) said the report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission regarding the deadly anti-government protests in the country misrepresents the number of deaths due to state-sponsored violence and considers the measures taken by security forces as mostly proportionate and appropriate. The UNPO said in a statement that it ...

ESAT News (May 1, 2017) Al Shabaab fighters ambushed a convoy of Ethiopian troops serving the UN-mandated African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Lower Shabelle region on Monday, according to a report by Shabelle News.   The convoy came under attack on a road near the southern village of Leego, as it was travelling to Burhakabo town in Baay ...

  ESAT News (May 1, 2017) Two persons were killed and several others, including three police officer, were injured in Bahir Dar when a grenade exploded near the entrance to a concert hall on Saturday. The concert, organized by Dashen Brewery, was under a boycotting campaign by the residents of Bahir Dar, who have also boycotted beer products by the Brewery, which ...

  ESAT News (April 28, 2017) There was yet another bomb attack in Bahir Dar on Thursday night killing one person and injuring four others, in a string of grenade attacks in the Amhara region in recent weeks. The bomb was thrown near a gas station. The deceased as well as the injured were employees of the gas station, according ...

  ESAT News (April 28, 2017) The number of people affected by the severe drought in Ethiopia has reached 7.7 million, according to the country’s Disaster Risk Management Commission. State media, quoting the Commission, reported that the number has shown a 2.1 million increase from the 5.6 million estimate last January owing to a change in weather phenomenon and flooding ...