ESAT News (April 13, 2017) Reuters quoting authorities reported on Thursday that Crop-eating caterpillars known as fall armyworms have damaged crops across southern Ethiopia, the latest country to be struck by the pests in a region already struggling with widespread drought and hunger. In March, Uganda confirmed that the caterpillars had attacked crops on farms in about 20 districts in ...

  ESAT News (April 12, 2017) Journalist Elias Gebru and Daniel Shibeshi, former leading member of the opposition Andinet party, are detained for five months without charge and with no prosecutor to take their case, leaving them in limbo at the Bole Police Department for five months. In a letter sent from his detention, journalist Elias Gebru says the prosecutor ...

ESAT News (April 12, 2017) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) exposed horrible stories of migrants from north Africa, who try to cross to the Mediterranean to the shores of Europe, being sold as slaves in Libya. According to a press release by the IOM Over the past weekend, a staff for IOM in Niger and Libya documented shocking events ...

ESAT News (April 12, 2017) Somali security forces have freed 8 Indian crew, held hostage by pirates since March 31, following an operation near the coastal city of Hobyo on Wednesday, according to a report by Shabelle news. An official said the Indian sailors were rescued after Galmudug regional forces attacked their pirate captors in Adalle, a small village located ...

  ESAT News (April 11, 2017) The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says prison guards had opened fire at prisoners who were running away from the fire that gutted down a building at the Qilinto prison in August last year. The Commissioner, Adisu Gebregziabher, told the Law and Justice Committee of the House of Peoples Representatives that prison administrators and security ...

ESAT News (April 11, 2017) Ethiopian regime soldiers and army units from the Ogaden National Liberation Army had been engaged in a brief fight on Sunday, according to a report by the Ogaden News Agency. The report said residents fleeing the battle in Birqot district of Degahbur told an ONA reporter seeing the bodies of 17 Ethiopian soldiers and three ...

ESAT News (April 11, 2017) The European Union expressed  its concerns over the large number of persons being detained or prosecuted following the anti-government protest last year which is continuing under the state of emergency. The statement came as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights, Stavros Lambrinidis, paid a three-day official visit to Ethiopia last week. The Special ...

  ESAT News (April 10, 2017) The uprising by the Oromo people have exposed the reality in Ethiopia and has challenged the myth that the regime was a formidable force, Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki said. “The concealed reality in Ethiopia was revealed by the Oromo uprising. The uprising challenged what is considered formidable. The myth that the Woyanes were formidable ...

  ESAT News (April 10, 2017) Malawi immigration officials have arrested 56 Ethiopians whom they say have entered the country illegally. Malawi 24 reported that the 56 Ethiopians were packed in a lorry, which was pulled over by immigration officials. Upon realising that Immigration officials were chasing the vehicle, the driver of the lorry decided to  stop the vehicle and ...

ESAT News (April 10, 2017) Ethiopia has declared an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea, also known as AWD, in the country’s Somali region, where people are already struggling to cope with a persistent drought, according to a report by the VOA. Dr. Akpaka Kalu, the World Health Organization representative to Ethiopia, told VOA on Friday that 16,000 cases of AWD ...