ESAT News (February 21, 2017) Ethiopians in Finland wrote a letter to the Tampere University of Technology objecting the nomination of prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn for the award of honorary doctorate degree. Representatives of the community wrote a letter saying the Prime Minister does not deserve such an award as he is at the helm of a brutal regime ...

ESAT News (February 21, 2017) The UN’s  Central Emergency Response Fund allocates US$18.5 million for Ethiopia’s fresh drought. The fund is allocated through the Rapid Response Window to address the most urgent life-saving needs of communities affected by the new drought in Ethiopia, the UN announced on Tuesday. The fund is released to enable critical aid for more than 785,000 ...

ESAT News (February 20, 2017) A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. The BBC quoted the government and the United Nations report that some 100,000 people are facing starvation, with a million more on the brink of famine. A combination of civil war ...

ESAT News (February 20, 2017) A Khartoum court on Saturday sentenced 65 Ethiopians to 40 lashes and a large fine for staging a demonstration at their embassy on Friday, according to a report by a sudanese radio. Hundreds of Ethiopian nationals living in the Sudanese capital demonstrated in front of their embassy in southern Khartoum on Friday in protest against ...

ESAT News (February 20, 2017) The UK Government is training senior members of Ethiopia’s security sector, despite the illegal detention of a British father on the country’s death row. The news comes as 53 MPs and peers call on the Foreign Office to secure Andargachew Tsige’s return from unlawful detention, Reprieve said on Monday. A freedom of information request by ...

  ESAT News (February 17, 2017) Unable to present witnesses on a bogus terrorism charge against opposition political prisoners, Ethiopian regime prosecutors presented to the 4th criminal bench in Addis Ababa video clips and speeches made by Bekele Gerba, a leading member of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), detained for over a year now. The video clips presented by the ...

ESAT News (February 17, 2017) The peaceful protests that began in November 2015 have now changed into  “fully-fledged armed uprising in Ethiopia,” says the head of a UK charity that works on social change and human rights. “Angered and exasperated by the government’s intransigence and duplicity, small guerrilla groups made up of local armed people have formed in Amhara and ...

ESAT News (February 16, 2017) Joined by victims of torture at the hands of the Ethiopian government, Representative Chris Smith  and Representative Mike Coffman came together on Wednesday to bring to light the actions of the oppressive Ethiopian regime. Smith, Chairman of the House Panel on Africa said “For too long the government of Ethiopia has used violence, including the ...

  ESAT News (February 16, 2017) A Swedish member of parliament on Wednesday spoke at length on the atrocities committed by the Ethiopian regime against its citizens, while also crossing his wrists, a sign of resistance by Ethiopians against a brutal regime, made popular by Olympic silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa. Anders Osterberg called on the parliament and the government of ...

  ESAT News (February 16, 2017) Richard Pankhurst, considered by many the ultimate expert on Ethiopian history, passed away on Thursday in Addis Ababa. Richard Pankhurst is the son of Sylvia Pankhurst, a surrogate to King Haileselassie I and a vocal activist in her own right against the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Born in 1927  in Woodford Green, Pankhurst studied ...