ESAT News (March 3, 2017) The Lawyer for Dr. Merera Gudina, detained and charged with alleged violations of the state of emergency and sedition, requested today for his client to be released on bail. Prosecutors for the Ethiopian regime accuse Gudina, the leader of the Oromo federalist Congress (OFC), and others of inciting the anti-government protest that rocked the ...

ESAT News (March 3, 2017) A UN multi-agency team that visited the Gambella region in February said at least 3,714 have been displaced following the cross border attack by the Murle ethnic group from South Sudan. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said successive cross-border attacks by the South Sudanese Murle ethnic group in July and January ...

  ESAT News (March 3, 2017) The council of the Montgomery County in Maryland declared the month of March Adwa victory month. The council says the victory at Adwa against the invading Italian forces in 1896 was an inspiration for African nationalism. Board member of the Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America, which campaigned for the recognition of Adwa by ...

ESAT News (March 2, 2017) The 121 anniversary of the victory of Adwa was colorfully celebrated on Wednesday by Ethiopians at home and in the Diaspora. The victory in 1896 by the Ethiopians over the invading colonial forces of Italy goes down in history as a major setback to the European colonizers, who at the Berlin conference carved up the ...

  ESAT News (March 2, 2917) Eritrea denies Ethiopian regime’s accusation that it was behind an attempted attack on the country’s hydroelectric dam. “Security forces killed 13 members of the Benishangul Gumuz People’s Liberation Movement (BPLM) who’d traveled from Eritrea to attack the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,” Ethiopia’s deputy government spokesman Zadig Abrha told Bloomberg news on Thursday. Eritrea’s Minister ...

ESAT News (March 1, 2017) Mozambican police arrested 36 Ethiopians suspected of illegally entering the country. Africa Review reported quoting local media that the Ethiopians were arrested from a hideout in the northern Nampula Province. According to police spokesman Mr. Zacarias Nacute, the Ethiopians were found in a house in Meconta District in Nampula after a tip-off by locals. He ...

  ESAT News (March 1, 2017) A network of schools in Ethiopia linked to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Turkey of masterminding a failed coup attempt last year, is changing ownership, according to a report by the Associated Press. Turkish President  Tayyip Erdogan has been urging countries to transfer ownership of the Gulen schools to his government. During a ...

ESAT News (March 1, 2017) The SPLA-IO faction, allied to former first vice president Riek Machar, said the recent cooperation agreements between South Sudan and Ethiopia will not be implemented fully without a comprehensive peace agreement in the country. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday, Dickson Gatluak, Deputy Military Spokesman of the SPLA-IO forces, said that the SPLA-IO faction loyal ...

  ESAT News (February 28, 2017) The Murle of South Sudan continued their cross border raid into the Gambella region of Ethiopia killing 30 Anyuaks and abducting 106 children in the last six months. Last Sunday, four Anyuaks were killed and four children were kidnapped in a cross border attack by the Murle clan South Sudan. Three weeks earlier, according ...

  ESAT News (February 28, 2017) The Human rights Watch says the Ethiopian regime is using politically motivated charges to crackdown on opposition parties and dissents. “Instead of taking actions that would demonstrate genuine resolve to address long-term grievances, the government again used politically motivated charges to further crackdown on opposition parties, reinforcing a message that it will not tolerate ...