ESAT News (April 19, 2017) Somali advocates have expressed concern after a spate of immigration arrests in the Atlanta area. The Associated Press reported that around 10 Somalis have been arrested this month. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson Bryan Cox says the agency has recently been able to obtain travel documents to execute deportations to Somalia. The agency had ...

  ESAT News (April 18, 2017) A government Commission says a total of 669 people were killed in anti-government protests last year in the Oromo, Amhara and South regions of the country. The Commission said the measure by security forces was “proportional.” The results of the investigation by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission was announced as the Prime Minister, Hailemariam ...

  ESAT News (April 18, 2017) The lethal shooting of an Ethiopian by police in LA, California on Wednesday has been called suspicious by family and the Ethiopian community at large, who demanded justice to the bright young man whose life was taken so soon. Zelalem Eshetu Ewnetu, 28, was sitting in his car when police, responding to a burglary, ...

  ESAT News (April 17, 2017) An Ethiopian shop owner was torched alive on Saturday outside Eastern Capetown. He died after his container spaza shop was set alight while he was sleeping inside it, the report by SABC said. According to the report  the perpetrators put gas cylinders and tyres around the container, poured petrol on it and set it ...

ESAT News (April 17, 2017) Authorities were forced to shut down a plant that processes donkey meat for export after it faced protests by the public for religious reasons. The Chinese abattoir was the cause of indignation by Ethiopians, Christians and Muslims alike, whose religion prohibit the slaughtering and eating of donkey meat, pork and the likes. The abattoir in ...

  ESAT News (April 14, 2017) Thousands of Ethiopians are returning home from Saudi Arabia after the gulf country ordered undocumented immigrants to leave the Kingdom in 90 days. Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians live in Saudi Arabia as domestic workers due to lack of job opportunities at home. Some have become undocumented as they run away abuses by their ...

  ESAT News (April 14, 2917) Residents of Addis Ababa continue to be hit by shortage of fuel which authorities said was caused by the closure of a bridge in Bahir Dar that obstructed the transportation of fuel from Sudan. Local media quoted  Ethiopian Fuel Supply Agency officials as saying the closure of the bridge forced fuel trucks to take ...

ESAT News (April 14, 2017) At least 97 migrants are feared dead after their boat sank on Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea, en route to Europe, Libyan authorities said. A spokesman for the Libyan Coast Guard said authorities rescued 23 migrants a few kilometers off the Libyan coast after receiving a distress call from their sinking boat, the VOA reported. ...

ESAT News (April 13, 2017) In a statement issued on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the  Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) decision to deliminate the border between the two countries, the European Union says it is deeply concerned about the regional and international implications of the stalemate between the two countries. “The EU remains deeply concerned that the present ...

  ESAT News (April 13, 2017) Ethiopian regime  security officers arrest and detain journalists and dissents indefinitely, violating the constitution, and due process deliberately breached by authorities to punish and silence critics and dissidents. , a journalists told ESAT on Thursday. Journalist Anania Sori, who was released last month after being detained for months without charge, said he and his ...