ESAT News (December 29, 2016) Unknown assailants attacked a bus carrying 40 passengers outside the town of Gambella, western Ethiopia, killing five passengers. The attackers have reportedly shot at the fuel tank of the bus that resulted in the deadly fire. State media reported that the attack took place 60 kilometers outside the town of Gambella. Police said nine ...

ESAT News (December 29, 2016  ) Sudanese presidential aide Thursday said the U.S. proposal that his government has accepted is about the delivery of medicines to the civilians in the rebel held areas, providing it be inspected by the competent authorities. According to a report by Sudan Tribune, Sudanese humanitarian commissioner and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) dismissed statements ...

  ESAT News (December 29, 2016) Police said on Thursday that they are investigating the case of Dr. Merara Gudina, one of the leading dissidents of the TPLF-led regime, as a “terrorism offence.” Dr. Merara Gudina, the leader of the Oromo Federalist Congress, is a prominent figure in Ethiopia’s opposition politics. He was arrested last month upon his return from ...

  ESAT News (December 28, 2016) The 19th bench of the federal high court in Addis Ababa on Tuesday presided over the case of Colonel Demeke Zewdu and et al, who are leaders and members of a committee that spearheads the demands of the people of Wolkait, Tsegede and Telemt. The defendants lead the demand by the people of north ...

  ESAT News (December 28, 2016) The problem of foreign debt has been a major and persistent set back for the African Economy, despite being one of the fastest growing economy in the entire globe. According to a report by the website Answer Africa, the economic setback is mainly a result of foreign debt. The report ranked Ethiopia the 7th, ...

ESAT News (December 28, 2016) Haile Gebreselassie, the new president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) told Reuters on Wednesday that Ethiopia will impose lifetime bans on drug cheats. Ethiopia is one of five countries the International association of athletics Federations (IAAF) says is in “critical care” over its drug-testing systems. The Reuters report recalled that the Horn of Africa ...

  ESAT News (December 27, 2016) Ethnic Amharas in Benishangul Gumuz region of Ethiopia say they are facing beatings, imprisonment and harassment perpetrated by the local and regional authorities. A representative who spoke to ESAT say authorities are jailing people whom they accuse of transferring arms to guerilla fighters opposing the Ethiopian regime. There have been reports of clashes between ...

  ESAT News (December 27, 2016) Thirteen officials in the Gambella region, western Ethiopia, have been arrested following controversies over land loans with investors from the Tigrayan region, who are accused of unfairly taking land and loans. News of the arrest of the Gambella officials came as a surprise to many as the investors from Tigray have been the ones ...

  ESAT News (December 27, 2016) Civic and political organizations called on Ethiopians in the Diaspora to suspend sending remittances to the country to punish a regime which they said uses the money to oppress the people. The seventeen civic and political organizations in a press release urged Ethiopians to halt sending money for three months. It also called for ...

  ESAT News (December 26, 2016) Over a thousand people who were jailed last August in Bahir Dar and it environs following anti-government protests have not been brought to court, sources disclosed to ESAT. Security forces rounded up and detained over four thousand people in Bahir Dar and surrounding towns last August in a deadly protest that saw the killing ...