ESAT News (January 26, 2017) The selection of Dr. Tedros Adhanom as one of the three finalists for the post of WHO director general drew outrage among Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia, who held Adhanom, one of a leading members of TPLF, accountable to human rights abuses and corruption ravaging the east African country. The executive board of the ...

  ESAT News (January 26, 2017 A Somali Diaspora forum said on Thursday that the regime in Ethiopia is “directly and openly” dictating to influence the election of Somalia’s president next month. The Puntland Diaspora Forum was responding to an analysis published by the Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation, a centre established by the Ethiopian regime last year, which ...

  ESAT News (January 26, 2017) The Human Rights Watch said on wednesday that African Union forces in Somalia (AMISOM) should release the findings of their investigation into alleged unlawful killings of 14 civilians by Ethiopian forces in July 2016. More than six months after the incident, people in Wardinle in Somalia’s Bay region have received no reports on the ...

  ESAT News (January 19, 2017) A series of grenade explosions have been reported in and around Metema, a border town in northern Ethiopia. A grenade explosion on Wednesday ripped off a cotton processing plant in Metema, Gondar in a locality known as Genda Wuha. Sources told ESAT that the plant, which is reportedly gutted down by the ensuing fire, ...

ESAT News (January 19, 2017) A group of Egyptian lawyers and political activists are preparing a lawsuit to challenge President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s preliminary agreement on Ethiopia’s Nile dam project. According to a report by the Albawaba news, the agreement which asserted Ethiopia’s right to build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has caused grave concern in Egypt over the ...

ESAT News (January 19, 2017) South Sudanese officials have stepped up rhetoric against Ethiopia in what analyst see as a moment that is developing in the relations between the two countries with a government official at the ministry of information in Juba telling a reporter that his government was not afraid of Ethiopia, according to a report by Nyamilepedia. Ethiopia ...

ESAT News (January 18, 2017) Special forces of the Somali regional state have reportedly carried out attacks against the Guji and Borena people in the Oromo region killing at least five. A source told ESAT that the locals retaliated killing several members of the special forces. The forces have also kidnapped unknown number of people and have raided cattle and ...

  ESAT News (January 18, 2018) The general prosecutor requested a court in Addis Ababa that the proceedings of the 38 inmates of the Qilinto prison who were accused of starting fire in October that killed 23 prisoners be held in a closed court. The prosecutor told the court that witnesses called for the trial have been harassed and intimidated ...

ESAT News (January 18, 2017) Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be in Ethiopia on Thursday as part her two nation visit in East Africa. She will be in South Sudan on January 18 and Ethiopia on January 19, according to a release by the U.S. Department of State. “The primary purpose of the Assistant Secretary’s ...

  ESAT News (January 17, 2017) Tensions remain high in the Ethiopian northerly cities of Gondar and Bahir Dar ahead of the Epiphany celebrations on Wednesday. Reports indicate the regime has deployed a large number of troops in the cities where anti-government sentiment remains strong after killings and mass incarcerations. Sources told ESAT that residents of Gondar and Bahir Dar ...