ESAT News (April 24, 2017) Assefa Chabo, a former member of parliament, writer and lawyer passed away in Dallas, Texas, on Sunday at the age of 73. Born in Gamugofa, southern Ethiopia, Chabo entered politics and public service at a very young age. A graduate of the Addis Ababa University Law Faculty, Chabo was, among other Ethiopian lawyers, a ...

ESAT News (April 24, 2017) U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has visited Djibouti, the tiny east African nation that is home to the United States’ only military base on the continent, in his sweeping tour of the Middle East and Horn of Africa, the VOA reported on sunday. According to the VOA report, Mattis called Djibouti, located on the Bab ...

  ESAT News (April 21, 2017) The head of the US Africa Command (Africom) indicated on Thursday that the Pentagon is not initiating a major escalation of the US combat role in Somalia, according to a report b y Business Daily Africa. Marine Corps Gen Thomas Waldhauser told reporters that the dozens of additional US soldiers being sent to Somalia ...

  ESAT News (April 21, 2017) Four soldiers were killed when their convoy came under attack in Gondar. The truck, carrying soldiers to the city of Gondar, overturned when the driver was shot in an ambush. Five others have sustained injuries. No party claimed responsibility for the attack. According to ESAT’s sources, the convoy was travelling from the Musie Bamb ...

  ESAT News (April 21, 2017)  Researches on atrocities committed against people in tyrannical regimes have demonstrated that  a decision to ignore atrocities and reinforce a culture of impunity carries a high price, and merely encourages future abuses, the Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Felix Horne, Senior Researcher with the Human Rights Watch for Horn of Africa, writing about ...

  ESAT News (April 20, 2017) The Amhara region prison commission says it is unable to feed and provide medical services to the over 66,000 prisoners under its custody and called on authorities to seek solutions to the dwindling resources to take care of the prisoners. The commission said the number of prisoners had tripled since the anti-government protests last ...

ESAT News (April 20, 2017) Only a fraction of the money needed to help Ethiopia’s 5.6 million people affected by drought has been obtained so far, a report disclosed on Thursday. Only 23.7 million dollars of the 948 million needed to feed the 5.6 people is available so far, according to the emergency news network IRIN. “This year, the appeal ...

ESAT News (April 20, 2017) Exiled Ethiopian runner Feyisa Lilesa has vowed to protest against the government at Sunday’s London Marathon, saying “blood is flowing” in his home country, the BBC reported on Thursday. Feyisa caught the world’s attention when he made a protest gesture in solidarity with the Oromo people while crossing the line in the marathon race at ...

  ESAT News (April 19, 2017) Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister is in Cairo following news that arch foe Eritrea has given the nod to Egypt to establish a military base. Details of the talks are scanty but Workeneh Gebeyehu has met his Egyptian counterpart and also president Abdel Fettah Al Sisi in Cairo. A high level Egyptian delegation was in Asmara, ...

ESAT News (April 19, 2017) Aid agencies were encouraged to redirect available resources to the fight against Acute Watery Diarrhoea (ADW), which has already affected 40 districts in the Somali region of Ethiopia, a region severely affected by repeated droughts. The Ethiopian Humanitarian Fund (EHF) said aid partners with existing funding are encouraged in the region to discuss with the ...