by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 4, 2018) Police investigating alleged high profile corruption by the former CEO of the Metals and Engineering Corporation (MeTEC) presented additional charges in which Maj. Gen. Kinfe Dagnew had approved purchases and contracts worth millions of dollars without tender and procurement procedures. Among a list of charges police had presented at the court yesterday ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 4, 2018) The office of the federal attorney general says it has dispatched teams to various parts of the country where ethnic clashes have claimed lives and triggered massive displacement. The office said in a press statement that investigations were underway against the masterminds of recent ethnic violence that resulted in deaths, destruction of ...

ESAT News (December 3, 2018) Leaders of the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) have returned home following a peace agreement with the Ethiopian government to engage in peaceful political struggle. A week ago, the group announced that it has officially laid down arms and combatants of the Front have returned to Ethiopia from their base in Eritrea. The move ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 3, 2018) An official with the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) says 208 people have been arrested in connection with deadly ethnic violence in areas bordering the Oromo and Benishangul-Gumuz regions in Western Ethiopia. The Police commissioner for the Benishangul-Gumuz region meanwhile blamed a splinter group of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) for the crisis ...

  ESAT News (December 3, 2018) Ethiopia has more new conflict-driven Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) than any other country in the world, with over 1.4 million this year alone, according to the Humanitarian Information Unit of the U.S. Department of State. The total IDPs in Ethiopia is 2.8 million of which 2.2 million were displaced due to conflicts. The rest, ...

ESAT News (November 30, 2018) The Oromo Democratic Party (ODP), a party governing the Oromo region in Ethiopia, vows to continue its fight against what it called elements that are bent on inciting ethnic violence that led to untold suffering and loss of lives in the region and beyond. In a statement issued at the end of an emergency central ...

ESAT News (November 30, 2018) Local employees for a road construction project in Oromo and Amhara regions in Ethiopia held seven Indian expats hostages over unpaid salaries. The Indian employees for the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) said in a letter to Ethiopian authorities that termination of projects and absence of senior management from projects led the locals to worry ...

ESAT News (November 29, 2018) The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that the 2019 World Press Freedom Day will be celebrated in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia on May 2-3, 2019. UNESCO said in a statement that the decision was made after Ethiopia recently requested to host the day. UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 29, 2018) Ringleaders of special commandos who are accused of plotting to kill Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed last month were arraigned before a court-martial. Last month, about 240 special commandos showed up unannounced at the National Palace fully armed and demand to speak with the Prime Minister. The soldiers said they wanted the PM ...