ESAT News (October 14, 2016) Tedros Adhanom, the Ethiopian top diplomat running for WHO’s Director-General position had claimed in a candidature form submitted to the Organization that English was his mother tongue  and rated his proficiency as excellent.  The Ethiopian foreign minister, who was born in Asmara, Eritrea, in 1965, checked the box in the form indicating English was ...

ESAT News (October 14, 2016) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied on Thursday Ethiopian regime’s accusations that his country was supporting groups trying to overthrow it.   Al-Sisi’s response came after Ethiopian officials repeatedly accused Egypt and Eritrea of backing rebels and revolutionaries struggling for regime change.   “Egypt does not conspire against anyone,” Reuters quoted Al-Sisi as saying in ...

  ESAT News (October 13, 2016) A former minister and President of the Oromo region of Ethiopia (2001 to 2005) said the late dictator Meles Zenawi had prejudicially labelled the Oromo people as “narrow-minded”. Junedin Sado said in an exclusive interview with ESAT that Zenawi, the late Tigrian strongman, had come up with a document labeling Oromos as narrow-minded. He ...

  ESAT News (October 13, 2016) An armed opposition group operating in north Gondar has reportedly killed dozens of Ethiopian regime soldiers in a battle on Wednesday night. A source told ESAT on the phone that the fifth regiment of the army in the area sustained a serious damage as the freedom fighters repulsed a surprise attack by the forces ...

  ESAT News (October 13, 2016) Ethiopian regime security forces are cracking down on use satellite dishes and smartphones by members of the public who are active on social media and following independent broadcasts from alternative sources such as ESAT. Smartphone internet services have been blocked in parts of Ethiopia following the declaration of state of emergency last Sunday. But ...

  ESAT News (October 12, 2016) Two members of the Agazi forces, the special paramilitary widely accused of committing mass killings, torture and detentions, were killed in a grenade attack Tuesday in the northern city of Bahir Dar, according to two witnesses who spoke to ESAT. The red beret soldiers were patrolling the subdivision of the city called Kebele 05 ...

ESAT News (October 12, 2016)   Members of the European Parliament on Wednesday denounced and expressed concern on the deteriorating human rights violations in Ethiopia.   “The killings of Oromos and the country-wide six-month state of emergency declared on Sunday 9 October by the Ethiopian government were amongst the main issues raised by human rights subcommittee and development committee members ...

  ESAT News (October 12, 2016)   The editorial board of the Washington Post on Tuesday urged the United States and Europe to directly address the repression in Ethiopia by the TPLF regime.   “Ethiopia’s rulers have redoubled a repressive policy that is failing. Instead of looking for ways to alleviate the pent-up frustrations of the ethnic Oromo and Amhara ...

  ESAT News (October 12, 2016)   The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association says it was outraged at reports of mass killings and abuses in Ethiopia. “We are outraged at the alarming allegations of mass killings, thousands of injuries, tens of thousands of arrests and hundreds of enforced disappearances,” said the UN Special ...

ESAT News (October 11, 2016) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that she told Ethiopian prime minister that protests should be allowed and that any police response should be proportionate. Opposition groups should be included in the political process, she noted. “I made the case that you should have open talks with people who have problems,” Merkel was quoted ...