ESAT News (November  21, 2016) Troubled Atlas African Industries says it is seeking new business acquisitions in the continent following its decision to exit Ethiopia by selling its bottle manufacturing plant, according to a report by the Kenyan Daily Nation. The report said the loss-making logistics firm, which is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, announced on Friday that it ...

ESAT News (November 18, 2018) Ethiopian officials say the agricultural sector, which has been showing a 10% growth in the past 10 years, has registered only 2.9% growth this year. Prime Minister Halemariam Desalegn briefing diplomats in Addis Ababa attributed the decline to the countrywide uprising especially in the Oromo region. Economists have been warning that the ongoing unrest in ...

ESAT News (November 18, 2016) Ethiopia has never been an easy place to operate. But a six-month state of emergency, combined with internet and travel restrictions imposed in response to a wave of anti-government protests, means it just got a whole lot harder, says a report by IRIN. The report by the former media wing of the UN, independent since ...

ESAT News (November 18, 2016) The UN refugee agency on Wednesday said that the number of South Sudanese refugees crossing to neighbouring Ethiopia is increasing. Kisut Gebreegziabher, spokesman of the UNHRC, told Anadolu Agency that an average of 547 people continue to arrive at the Pagak Transit Centre on a daily basis, Radio Tamazuj reported from Sudan. “Since 3 September, ...

ESAT News (November 17, 2016) Ethiopia should immediately release all journalists detained amid an intensifying crackdown on the media, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. In recent weeks, Ethiopian authorities have jailed Getachew Worku, newspaper editor, as well as two members of the award-winning Zone 9 bloggers’ collective, which has faced continuous legal harassment on terrorism and incitement ...

ESAT News (November 17, 2016) Reports say there has been heavy fighting between regime soldiers and freedom fighters in Kafta, Humera in north Gondar. Representatives of the Patriotic Ginbot 7 in north Gondar, an armed group based in neighboring Eritrea fighting the regime in Ethiopia, say the group has been attacking regime forces in north Gondar for the last one ...

ESAT News (November 17, 2016) A close relative of the former dictator Meles Zenawi, who leased the Ghion Hotel, a landmark in Bahir Dar twenty-two years ago without public auction, run to his hometown in Tigray to hide after a court warrant was issued to arrest him. Woldu Wolde-Aregay was given the Ghion Hotel on a miniature lease payment of ...

ESAT News (November 16, 2016) A member of the “command post,” a military unit setup to oversee the state of emergency declared by the regime in Ethiopia, killed three people in north Gondar. An armed member of the command post in Dabat town, north Gondar, shot and killed two individuals for allegedly blocking a road in protest. Nigat Misganaw also ...

ESAT News (November 16, 2016) The death toll of Somali government soldiers killed in Tuesday’s attack in Tiyeglow town has jumped to 20, while scores have been wounded, Sebelle news quoted its sources as saying. Reports said Al Shabaab militants have completely regained control of Tiyeglow, which lies west of Bakool region, after pushing Somali National Army and South West ...

ESAT News (November 16, 2016) A member of the Ethiopian House of People’s Representatives was found dead at her office on Tuesday. The burial of Adisie Zeleke was conducted on Wednesday in the city of Bahir Dar. Zeleke, 48, represents the Amhara region and her party, the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), is one of the four parties forming the ...