ESAT News (January 31, 2017) Chadian Foreign Minister, Moussa Faki Mahamat, was elected on Monday as the new chairperson of the African Union (AU) commission replacing outgoing South Africa’s Dlamini Zuma, Sudan Tribune reported on Tuesday. Mahamat assumed AU’s top post after an election held Monday by AU heads of State and Government, who form the Assembly of the African ...

  ESAT News (January 31, 2017) Ethiopian government banks have released additional loans to agricultural investors in Gambella despite findings by a government sponsored investigation that about 250 million dollars has been squandered by the investors. Land grab in Gambella and the associated waste of millions of dollars in the name of development by Tigrayan investors have been the subject ...

  ESAT News (January 31, 2017) The death of a student last week at the Adigrat University in Tigray has been called suspicious by family and friends as authorities deny autopsy and security forces accompany the body all the way to the burial, preventing family members from inspecting the body of their loved one. Shume Lema, from the country’s eastern ...

ESAT News (January 30, 2017) A Somali official says the country’s military have killed a top Al shabaab commander during an operation in a small town in Gedo region on Sunday, according to a report filed by Shaballe News. The report said, the commander, Abdullahi Qanas, was killed in an special operation by Somali military at Tulo-Barwaqo area, about 18Km ...

ESAT News (January 30, 2017) The head of the African Union has criticised Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries, saying it presents “one of the greatest challenges” for the continent. As representatives of the AU’s 53 member states met in Addis Ababa for a two-day summit, the chief of its commission said the bloc was entering “very ...

ESAT News (January 30, 2017) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on the international community to come to the aid of close to 6 million people who need immediate food assistance. The UN chief made the remark in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa as he met and discussed with Ethiopian officials on the drought situation in Ethiopia that is affecting ...

  ESAT News (January 27, 2017) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) says the regime in Ethiopia is systematically underestimating the severity of famine and that the UN toes the line. In a statement released on Thursday, the Front, which is fighting for the liberation of the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, accused the Ethiopian regime is “more interested in projecting ...

ESAT News (January 27, 2017) Aid agencies warn ahead of this weekend’s African Union (AU) meetings in Addis Ababa that an estimated six and half million children could be at risk of starvation in the Horn of Africa as a result of back-to-back droughts in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Save the Children said nearly half a million children in the ...

  ESAT News (January 27, 2017) A Virginia court dismissed a lawsuit brought by a high ranking Ethiopian official against an Ethiopian activist based in Washington, DC metro area. The Ethiopian activist, Tewodros Kabtyimer and his friends last year confronted Addisalem Balema, a member of the executive of TPLF, the brutal ruling oligarchy, at the Dulles International Airport  and denounced ...

  ESAT News (January 27, 2017) Corruptions remains high in 2016 and the country ranked 108th out of 176 countries while the score is a sad 34/100, according to Transparency International’s 2016 corruption index. The report said the country is plagued with corruption that permeates all sectors and indicates land as the major sector of corruption. “Land administration is seen ...