ESAT News (October 21, 2016) Two Agazi soldiers were killed on Thursday following an attack by unidentified armed group on a makeshift military camp in Tis Abay, Bahir Dar. Sources who spoke to ESAT on the phone said additional troops have been sent to to the area following the attack by a self organized armed group against the Agazi ...

  ESAT News (October 21, 2016) Foreign companies and NGOs say they have been charged Internet fees by the Ethiopian Telecom even when the service has been shut down following the states of emergency declared a week ago. Ethiopian authorities shut down Internet and telephone services in most part of the country in an attempt to quell the growing protest ...

  ESAT News (October 21, 2106) The African Commission on Human and People’s’ Rights must act to curtail rapidly escalating human rights crises in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Gambia, Amnesty International said on Friday at the start of the 59th Ordinary Session of the African Commission. “The crackdown on protesters which has claimed hundreds of lives in Ethiopia is a live example ...

ESAT News (October 21, 2016) Ethiopia is ranked the 4th unstable country next to The Maldives, Mauritania and Algeria, ranking first to third in that order, Newsweek said on Thursday. Michael Rubin said in an opinion, which is also published on the American Enterprise Institute website, that repressive regime and poverty are only two of the factors making the regime ...

  ESAT News (October 20, 2016) The internet shutdown in Ethiopia will drain millions of dollars from the economy, besides undermining citizens’ rights to impart and seek information, Quartz Africa quoted observers of the current state of emergency as saying. A recent Brookings Institution report showed that a total 30-day disruption of the internet between July 1, 2015, and June ...

  ESAT News (October 20, 2016) The state of emergency declared in Ethiopia a week ago by the executive branch of the regime has faced stern opposition on Thursday from representatives of the Amhara and Oromo regions of the country. In a rare move by members of the otherwise rubber stamp parliament, the 137 representatives of the Amhara region in ...

  ESAT News (October 20, 2016) High ranking government officials are not allowed to leave the country without the authorization of the command post that was set up to enforce the state of emergency declared in Ethiopia a week ago, sources disclosed to ESAT. The ban was not included in the details of the emergency law that was released last ...

  ESAT News (October, 19, 2016) Ethiopian security forces have detained hundreds of people after authorities declared a state of emergency in a nation that saw anti-government protests and crackdowns. In the country’s Oromo region, where hundreds of youth lost their lives in the hands of regime’s security forces, over a thousand people have been arrested in the last one ...

  ESAT News (October 19(2), 2016) The New York Times says that Ethiopia is in flames and cast doubt on its ability to sustain economic growth in the face of turmoil. “Ethiopia is now in flames. Hundreds have been killed during protests that have convulsed the country,” the paper said on Tuesday in an article “ ‘Africa Rising’? ‘Africa Reeling’ ...

ESAT News (October 19, 2016) UK’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has on Tuesday refused to answer questions in the House of Commons about the case of Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, a British father of three who is held on Ethiopia’s death row, Reprieve, an organization following the case of Andy said in a release. Mr Johnson and other Foreign Office ministers ...