ESAT News (September 26, 2016) Ethiopian marathoner, crossed her wrist above her head, a gesture made popular by athlete Feyisa Lilesa at the Rio Olympics, as she crossed the Quad Cities Marathon on Sunday. A number of Ethiopian athletes have used international races to draw attention to the killings, torture and mass incarceration of their compatriots by a brutal regime ...

ESAT News (September 26, 2016) Prominent public intellectual and rights activist, Prof. Mesfin Wodemariam, called for the formation of a caretaker government in Ethiopia to come out of the political quagmire and pave the way for a peaceful transition in Ethiopia. In an article released on Monday, Prof. Mesfin, 86, recommended that the TPLF should transfer power to a newly ...

ESAT News (September 23, 2016) Marathon silver medalist at Rio Olymics, known worldwide for his protest gesture against a brutal regime in his home country, Feyisa Lilesa, refutes a claim by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn that the athlete’s gesture was a stunt orchestrated by opposition elements based in the US. In an exclusive interview with ESAT, Feyisa said he ...

ESAT News (September 23, 2016) Four members of the Agazi Forces, the special squad of the TPLF regime, were killed in an ambush by armed farmers in the restive Oromo region. According to a video received by ESAT and interviews conducted with residents of the area, one soldier was also captured by the farmers. The regime has reportedly sent a ...

ESAT News (September 22, 2016) Seven people from Tigray region were caught in Gondar for allegedly trying to make arson attack on businesses in the city, sources told ESAT. Reports reaching ESAT from Gondar say the arsonists were caught on Wednesday and Thursday with evidences of fuel and other combustibles in their possession. A lady, whose name is withheld, and ...

ESAT News (September 22, 2016) The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, a country known for jailing journalists, muzzling the press and restricting free access to the Internet, complained of the use of social media and the Internet. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, Hailemariam Desalegn grumbled about negative impacts of the social media and the Internet. His statement came ...

ESAT News (September 21, 2016) Tigrians residing in the Diaspora called in a statement that the TPLF regime to step down and for the people of Tigray to join the uprising by Ethiopians inother parts of the country against the TPLF tyranny. The Tigrians, who reside in North America, Europe and elsewhere across the globe also called for the establishment ...

ESAT News (September 21, 2016) A former member of the army who was among the thousands of youth detained by the regime from the Amhara region recounts horror stories of hard labor, hunger and disease in a secret location in a jungle in the Benishangul Gumuz regional state of Ethiopia. Up to 2000 youth rounded up from Gondar, Bahir Dar ...

ESAT News (September 20, 2016) Nigist Yirga, a young activist known for her viral photo as she posed in the Gondar protest, was reportedly abducted two weeks ago by TPLF security forces and taken to the Central Investigation Bureau, a.k.a the torture chamber of the regime in Addis Ababa. The 20 year old young lady was wearing a tees with ...

ESAT News (September 20, 2016) The attack by TPLF security forces on the Segen people of Konso has continued unabated as one person was killed and two other sustained injuries on Monday bringing the death toll to 50. Security forces attacked two localities in Segen Zone in a bid to arrest members of a committee that spearheads the constitutional demand ...