By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 2, 2016) The TPLF regime is using a civilian airlines, The Ethiopian Airlines, to transport its army to the Amhara region where hundreds of people were murdered by TPLF snipers in the last few weeks alone. The TPLF forces got the shoot to kill order by regime officials including the Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 2, 2016) Government offices and businesses were shut down on Thursday in Konso, south Ethiopia following announcement by the regional council that the petition by the people of Konso for self-administration has been scrapped. The people of Konso submitted a petition signed by 50,000 people to the regional council demanding self-administration in their affairs ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 1, 2016) An over 250 regime soldiers deserted the army in Sanja, Amhara region following a brief gun battle with local farmers. A source who spoke to ESAT on the phone said some of them have actually surrendered during the fight with the farmers. The soldiers deserted with dozens of artilleries and medium range ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 31, 2016) Reports reaching ESAT from Ethiopia say the TPLF regime is deploying thousands of its troops and Agazi Special Forces to the Amhara region where uprising against the regime is gaining momentum as more towns and localities removed local administrations and the security, and replaced them with interim administrations elected by the people. ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 30, 2016) The blue skies over the city of Bahir Dar were covered in smokes on Monday, on this deadly day of protest against TPLF oligarchy, as people in the Amhara region of Gondar and Gojam intensified their defiance against the Tigrayan minority rule. Trails of smokes were rising all day into the skies ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 27, 2016) Bure and Quarit have become the latest towns in the Amhara region to join the protest against the brutal regime of TPLF that has now faced resistance from all corners of the Amhara and Oromo regions of Ethiopia. One person was killed by TPLF forces on Friday in Bure while at least ...

(Finote Selam hoisting the Ethiopian flag. Photo: Social media) By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 25, 2016) Regime forces shot and killed a college student in Finote Selam, West Gojam on Thursday as they used lethal force to disperse protesters who took to the streets for the second day to show solidarity with the Amhara and Oromo people who demand ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 25, 2016) Aided by ground forces and helicopters, the TPLF regime forces approached the Angereb jail in the city of Gondar on Wednesday to take custody of Col. Demeke Zewdu, the symbol of the revolt in the Amhara region. The local defense forces however refused to transfer his custody. Regime security forces in plain ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 24, 2016) The bougainvillea palm city of Bahir Dar was turned into a ghost city for the third day on Tuesday as residents held a stay at home protest. Government offices, businesses and transportation was shut down in this new wave of protest in the Amhara region where at least 150 people were killed ...

Athlete calls for the removal of a ruthless regime in Ethiopia By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 23, 2016) A crowd funding has raised over 77,000 dollars in a little over 24 hours after Olympic silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa crossed his wrists at the finish line in Rio on Sunday to bring the repression of his people to the attention ...