ESAT News (December 26, 2016) A minibus full of passengers collided with a dump truck in Bora, 100 miles south of the capital Addis Ababa resulting in the death of all 14 passengers including the driver. The minibus was traveling from Batu town to Addis Ababa when it was involved in a head on collision with the dump truck ...

ESAT News (December 26, 2016) Three fire incidents in 24 hours period over have gutted down businesses and residential quarters in Addis Ababa causing property damages worth about 400,000 dollars, according to the city’s fire department. Four businesses were blazed behind the old post office and property worth 25,000 has been destroyed, city fire department told local media. Eight houses ...

ESAT News (December 23, 2016) The United Nations Security Council failed on Friday to adopt a U.S.-drafted resolution to impose an arms embargo and further sanctions on South Sudan despite warnings by U.N. officials of a possible genocide in the world’s newest state. Reuters reported that there were seven votes in favor and eight abstentions. A resolution needs nine votes ...

  ESAT News (December 23, 2016) Human Rights Watch said Thursday that while it is a good news that the regime in Ethiopia freed close to 10,000 prisoners following massive anti-government protests, the detainees shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place. Senior researcher for the Horn of Africa at the Human Rights Watch, Felix Horne, said in a dispatch ...

ESAT News (December 23, 2016) Miruts Yifter, two-time Olympic gold medalist and a runner who earned the nicknames “the gear shifter” and “yifter the shifter” for his fast dash at the last rounds of competitions, died in Canada at the age of 72. Winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics in 10,000m and 5,000m and bronze in ...

ESAT News (December 22, 2016) Protesters in Ambo, west of the capital Addis Ababa, demanded Wednesday for the release of leaders of opposition political parties and students whom they said were unjustly imprisoned by the regime. Residents of Ambo staged the protest rally defying the state of emergency that bans any demonstrations against the regime. Students of the Ambo Secondary ...

ESAT News (December 22, 2016) The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned on Wednesday the criminalization of reporting on issues of the Ethiopian Muslim community as an act of  terrorism. CPJ’s deputy executive director, Robert Mahoney, made the remark in connection with the conviction of Khalid Mohammed and Darsema Sori on terrorism charges by the kangaroo court of the TPLF regime. ...

  ESAT News (December 22, 2016) Ethiopian regime says revenue from tourism is in downward spiral following the declaration of the state of emergency. The culture and tourism ministry said the number of tourists visiting the country has been decreasing since the declaration of the martial law in October that followed a yearlong deadly protests in the Oromo and Amhara ...

  ESAT News (December 22, 2016) The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) says uprisings and resistance will continue until the regime is eliminated and a genuine democratic federalism is established in Ethiopia. ARDUF said in a press release on Wednesday that the state of emergency declared in October was aimed at legalizing the extrajudicial killings and other human rights ...

ESAT News (December 21, 2016) The UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday that countries in the Horn of Africa are likely to see a rise in hunger and further decline of local livelihoods in the coming months. FAO said it expects a rise in hunger as farming families struggle with the knock-on effects of multiple droughts that hit ...