ESAT News (February 28, 2017) The Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced that there will be no winner for 2016 prize for achievement in African leadership. The Foundation awards African leaders who deliver security, health, education and economic development to their constituents and democratically transfer power to their successors. The Foundation on Tuesday announced that there is no winner of the ...

  ESAT News (February 27, 2017) The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) renewed its call to the international community to demand the Ethiopian regime to stop inciting war among ethnic groups. The League alleged that the Somali region special forces led by the federal security forces “have been engaged in a cruel war for the past ...

  ESAT News (February 27, 2017) The wife of a blogger and journalist detained in Ethiopia has called on the international community to pressure local authorities to release her husband. The wife of Anania Sorri, Bezawit Hailegiorgis, told the Guardian that his sole crime had been “to express his thoughts honestly”. Anania is among tens of thousands of people arrested ...

  ESAT News (February 24, 2017) The leader of an armed opposition group, who is charged with “attempting to overthrow the government” says charges brought against him and others by the Ethiopian regime were just another attempt to instill fear on political opponents. The leader of Patriotic Ginbot 7, Prof. Berhanu Nega said in an exclusive interview with ESAT that ...

  ESAT News (February 23, 2017) Hundreds of houses are being demolished in the capital Addis Ababa in areas claimed by both the city administration and the Oromo regional state. Over three hundred houses have already been demolished by the regional police despite complaint by residents to the city administration, who said they have paid taxes to the city for ...

  ESAT News (February 23, 2017) Ethiopian regime prosecutors have brought criminal charges against Dr. Merera Gudina, Prof. Berhanu Nega, activist Jawar Mohammed as well as two media outlets based abroad, ESAT and OMN.  According to prosecutors, all the accused were involved in “attempts to overthrow the constitutionally formed government.” The charges filed at the federal high court on Thursday ...

  ESAT News (February 22, 2017) Sudan has repatriated 63 Ethiopians who staged a protest rally against the increase in residence permit fees. ESAT’s sources say one Ethiopian had died from a knife attack and others have undergone torture before they were repatriated to Ethiopia. The Ethiopians were crammed in a small room before Sudanese securities identified the leaders to ...

  ESAT News (February 22, 2017) Ethiopia’s spy agency, misleadingly called the Information Network Security Agency (INSA), has signed a 1.3 million USD contract with the Poland based ASSECO. The Ethiopian regime spends millions of dollars on spy gadgets to obtain the latest technologies to snoop on citizens at home and abroad. In 2014, Hacking Team, an Italian firm was ...

  ESAT News (February 22, 2017) Amnesty International said in its annual report that the martial law declared by the Ethiopian regime in october last year has been used to further its human rights violations against citizens. In 2016, the rights group says, anti-government protesters were met with lethal force and arrest and torture has continued against dissents. “Prolonged protests ...

  ESAT News (February 21, 2017) Two Ethiopian journalists say they have fled their country and have sought refuge in neighboring Kenya after unrelenting threats and persecution by Ethiopian regime security. Publisher and managing editor of “Yegna Press,” Ermias Seyoum and its editor-in-chief, Mesfin Zeleke told ESAT on the phone that they decided to leave the country after security forces ...