ESAT News (February 14, 2017) Olympic silver medalist known for his protest gesture at the Rio Olympic against a brutal regime in his home country, Feyisa Lilesa, who sought asylum in the U.S., reunited with his wife and two children on Tuesday. Lelisa crossed his wrist at the finish line in Rio to protest the plight of his people ...

  ESAT News (February 15, 2017) Prosecutors have begun the process of extradition of seven army officers and businessmen who hid in Dubai after allegedly taking bank loans amounting to over 5 million dollars in the name of agricultural development in Benishangul Gumuz region of western Ethiopia. According to ESAT’s sources, the seven suspects, who are also called “the seven ...

ESAT News (February 15, 2017) Foreign direct investment in Ethiopia dropped by a fifth in the first half of the country’s fiscal year after violent anti-government protests in which foreign-owned businesses were targeted, according to a report by fin24. The country attracted $1.2bn in the six months through the end of December, compared with $1.5bn in the same period a ...

  ESAT News (February 14, 2017) ESAT’s intelligence sources say at least 20 members of the Somali special forces unit were killed in Gursum and Bombase in south eastern Ethiopia. The attack was reportedly carried out in retaliation by armed residents in the Oromo region of southern Ethiopia where the Somali forces had reportedly carried out incursions and looting. Weapons ...

  ESAT News (February 14, 2017) The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) said 248 civilians  were killed and 3706 were detained in just three weeks (from 8th October – 30th October, 2016). In a written appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the League renewed “its call to the international community to act collectively in ...

  ESAT News (February 14, 2017) The Somali Diaspora began a petition campaign demanding the newly minted President to declare an Ethiopian political fixer in Somalia persona non grata. An investigative report by a Somali website accused a high ranking  Ethiopian officer in Somalia of arm sales to rival factions and collecting bribes from Somali politicians who want come to ...

  ESAT News (February 13, 2017) An appellate court in Addis Ababa denied bail to Getachew Shiferaw held under the country’s anti-terrorism law on bogus charges of having links and working with opposition political groups abroad. The appellate court denied bail saying the journalist is a flight risk and has no permanent residence. International rights groups decry the Ethiopian regime ...

  ESAT News (February 13, 2017) Prof. Berhanu Nega, Chairman of the Patriotic Ginbot 7, an armed resistance group fighting the Ethiopian regime, says the uprising and popular resistance seen in Ethiopia over the last year have proven right the front’s strategy of employing all kinds of struggle against the authoritarian regime. Speaking to his supporters worldwide via a video ...

  ESAT News (February 13, 2017) The TPLF regime will pay 1.8 million USD for the year 2017 to a U.S.  firm, S.G.R. LLC Government Relations and Lobbying, to lobby on its behalf in a bid to influence U.S. policy makers to have a favorable view of the otherwise tyrannical regime. According to the memorandum of understanding signed last month ...

  ESAT News (February 10, 2017) Tensions remain high as security forces continue with their intimidation following the state of emergency declared last october, according to residents of Ambo and Sebeta who spoke to Deutsche Welle (DW). “Four months after declaring a state of emergency in a crackdown on protests, Ethiopia’s government claims the country has returned to normal. Critics ...