ESAT News (April 7, 2017) Ethiopian war hero, Lieutenant General Jagama Kelo, passed away at the age of 96. Lt. General Jagama Kelo was only 15 when he went to fight the invading Italian forces in the 1930s. He was instrumental in capturing and killing hundreds of the invading forces and seizing thousands of weaponries. In the five year ...

ESAT News (April 7, 2017) Ethiopia’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that two bloggers from the Zone 9 collective, Atnaf Berhane and Natnael Feleke, previously acquitted of terrorism charges, should be tried instead on charges of inciting violence through their writing. “We urge Ethiopian authorities to do the right thing and drop any further prosecution of Atnaf Berhane and Natnael ...

  ESAT News (April 7, 2017) Donors at the Green Climate Fund (GCF) board meeting in South Korea were not sold on the Ethiopian bid for US$100m to prepare communities for rising drought risk. African delegates – and aid agencies – said it was precisely the kind of initiative needed to protect the world’s poorest, according to a report by ...

  ESAT News (April 6, 2017) Reports reaching from north Gondar say a church was set ablaze by regime soldiers in Denbia. The report also said the perpetrators had blamed soldiers of Patriotic Ginbot 7, an armed group opposing the regime, in what sources say was an attempt to put the fighters at loggerheads with the public. The burning of ...

  ESAT News (April 6, 2017) A Rights Watchdog says Ethiopian authorities have failed to hold accountable a paramilitary force that killed at least 21 villagers in the Somali region of Ethiopia in June 2016. “The government should promptly grant access to independent international monitors to investigate these killings and other reported abuses by this force, known as the ‘Liyu ...

ESAT News (April 5, 2017) Delegates of the US, Canada and other developed countries on Wednesday pushed back a proposal for 100 million dollar funding proposal to help drought stricken communities in Ethiopia at the Green Climate Fund (GCF) board meeting in Songdo, South Korea. “A bid for US$100 million to drought-proof Ethiopian communities has exposed a rich-poor divide in ...

  ESAT News (April 5, 2017) Clashes between the Amhara and Tigray militiamen around the Waldiba monastery has continued for the second day on Wedensday, according to ESAT sources. The sources told ESAT that the Tigray militiamen were being backed up by the regime’s army but the Amhara militiamen have taken control of vast territories in the monastery. The incident ...

ESAT News( April 5, 2017) The United Nations warns of the spread of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) in the Somali region of Ethiopia, a region severely hit by a series of droughts. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says new cases of AWD were registered in 37 woredas of Somali region in recent weeks. But the Ogaden ...

  ESAT News (April 5, 2017) It is “an odd priority” that Ethiopia is spending millions of dollars to put satellites into orbit at a time when  5.6 million people are in need of food aid due to the severe drought plaguing the country, The Economist says in a commentary published on Wednesday. The Ethiopian regime in January announced that ...

  ESAT News (April 4, 2017) Six people were killed in a shooting that broke out at the Waldiba monastery in northern Ethiopia. A source who spoke to ESAT said the incident was sparked when militiamen from Tigray opened fire at the pilgrims from Amhara killing one person and injuring another. The militias from Tigray were reportedly preventing the pilgrims ...