Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a.k.a. Farmajo PHOTO/REUTERS ESAT News (December 10, 2018) An MP in Somalia has filed a motion with the speaker of the country’s parliament to impeach the president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a.k.a. Farmajo. The Reuters report said the motion filed to impeach the president was over his deal with neighboring Ethiopia and Eritrea. The three countries have recently ...

ESAT News (December 7, 2018) Foreign Policy Magazine says critics’ depiction of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, as populist was wrong. “One of the most common – and at times most compelling [critiques] – is that Abiy is a populist in the mold of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, India’s Narendra Modi, and U.S. President Donald Trump. It’s a critique worth ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 7, 2018) The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has corrected its “A Year in Fake News” story on ESAT that had given readers the impression that ESAT had doctored a video showing “Somalis thrown into shallow graves.” The video in question was used by a producer in a journalists’ roundtable on a Facebook Live discussion ...

ESAT News (December 6, 2018) Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki will visit Djibouti ‘soon’ as relation between the two countries thaws. The report by Anadolu news agency quoted Djibouti foreign minister, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, as saying that although there is no set date for the visit, the leaders of the two countries will exchange visits ‘soon.’ Speaking on the sidelines of ...

ESAT News (December 6, 2018) The regional head of security said illegal military training has been given in three facilities in the Amhara region which he said were responsible for the loss of several lives and destruction of properties. Brigadier General Asamnew Tsege told the Amhara Mass Media Agency that those behind the illegal military facility have used the political ...

ESAT News (December 5, 2018) Federal police say they have arrested five officials of the Benishangul-Gumuz region in Western Ethiopia in connection with recent deadly violence in areas bordering with the Oromo region. The officials include the regional deputy head of security and the former mayor of Assosa town. Police said the arrested officials are accused of adding fuel to ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 5, 2018) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Ethiopia will grow by 8.5 percent as the political unpredictability subsides and foreign direct investment improves in 2019. “Growth is expected to step up in 2018/19 to 8.5 percent, supported by stronger confidence as the political uncertainty of previous years recedes, and external financial inflows, including ...