ESAT News (March 15, 2017) A Member of the European Parliament said the EU should inquire about misgovernance and the level of oppression as a major financier of the Ethiopian regime, Ana Gomes was speaking in connection with the death of dozens of Ethiopians as a landfill outside the capital Addis Ababa collapsed Saturday night. “Apart from expressing our ...

  ESAT News (March 14, 2017) Excavators and bulldozers dig deep into a mountain of rubbish for the third day in a landfill in the outskirt of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa trying to find bodies buried under the pile of garbage in Saturday night’s collapse of the landfill. State media reported that the death toll reached 72 by Tuesday ...

ESAT News (March 13, 2917) Amnesty International said today that the death of more than 60 people in a landslide at a vast rubbish dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital over the weekend is a clear case of dereliction of duty by the Ethiopian authorities. Dozens are still missing since the landslide at the 36-hectare Repi municipal dumpsite ...

  ESAT News (March 13, 2017) At least 22 people were killed in a cross-border raid on Friday and Saturday by the Murle of South Sudan against the Anyuaks in Gambella, western Ethiopia. Eleven people were killed 21 others, including children were abducted on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Gambella Nilotic Unity Movement said in a statement sent to ESAT that a ...

  ESAT News (March 13, 2017) Over sixty people are reportedly dead on Saturday in a landfill landslide outside the capital Addis Ababa. Local media reported that 62 people living in and around the landfill died in the landslide. Some of the deceased live scavenging at the site which has been a dumping ground for the city for over 50 ...

ESAT News (March 10, 2017) A group of armed men on Thursday attacked a prison in north Gondar freeing political prisoners. Patriotic Ginbot 7, an armed group opposing the Ethiopian regime claimed responsibility for the attack. A representative who spoke to ESAT said they have killed two soldiers while four others have surrendered in the attack in Wegera district. The ...

  ESAT News (March 10, 2017) A U.S. congressman says it is high time for the U.S. stopped allying with a brutal regime under a pretext of war on terror. Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California was speaking at a hearing on Thursday organized by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs under the theme “democracy under threat in Ethiopia.” “Any honestly ...

ESAT News (march 10, 2017)   The federal high court on Friday denied bail for Dr. Merera Gudina who is detained and charged with alleged violations of the state of emergency and sedition. Lawyers for Dr. Gudina last week requested for his client to be released on bail. Prosecutors for the Ethiopian regime accuse Gudina, the leader of the Oromo ...

  ESAT News (March 9, 2017) The federal prosecutor objected the request for bail by lawyers representing Dr. Merera Gudina who is detained and charged with alleged violations of the state of emergency and sedition. Lawyers for Dr. Gudina last week requested for his client to be released on bail. Prosecutors for the Ethiopian regime accuse Gudina, the leader of ...

  ESAT News (March 9, 2017) The Menschen für Menschen charity warmed that 5.7 million Ethiopians could die of a lack of food. Part of the problem, the charity said, is that other countries are faring even worse and thus getting most of the publicity, according to a report filed by the Deutsche Welle. “Some 6 percent of Ethiopia’s population ...