ESAT News (November 21, 2018) Three students have reportedly been killed in Assosa University in Western Ethiopia. The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Hirut Woldemariam told local journalists that a spat between two students turned into a deadly clash in which three students lost their lives. Thirty-four others were wounded, according the Minister, as reported by Fana Broadcasting Corporation. ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 21, 2018) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has officially laid down arms and combatants of the Front have returned to Ethiopia from their base in Eritrea. The move followed a peace agreement reached with the Ethiopian government in Asmara last month. Since its establishment in 1984, the ONLF has been fighting for the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 21, 2018) As corruption by the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) continues to be uncovered, sources close to a steam power project in the Afar region say the military industrial complex has wasted $36M, leading to the project to come to a screeching halt. METEC, which took a contract from the government’s Ethiopian Electric ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2018) At least sixty-five members of the national defense force have been held in a secret dungeon in Tigray and were feared to have been tortured, according to information reaching ESAT. The soldiers, held in a place called Kuya, are mainly targeted due to their ethnic linkage. They are Oromo and Amhara except 4 soldiers who ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 20, 2018) The crime investigation bureau of the federal police commission sent a letter to ten offices of land administration in the capital to identify and compile information on over 400 suspects of corruption while it put a freeze on their land and property until further action by courts, according to a document sent ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 19, 2018) An integrated residential project was launched today at the historic La Gare (Train Station) in the capital Addis Ababa. The mixed-use project, which lands on 360,000-sq-m area, is expected to have 4000 residences and cost 50B birr, (approximately $1.9B at current exchange rates). A key component of the project was building residences ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2018) A former deputy head of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) was brought to a court in Addis Ababa today accused of corruption as well as torture and a range of human rights abuses against innocent citizens and suspects. Police told the court that Yared Zerihun, on orders of his former ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2018) A former head for the power and engineering department at the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), an industrial complex at the center of Ethiopia’s corruption scandal, has been arrested at his office in Addis Ababa, accused of wasting over $55.6M. According to charges read at a court in Addis Ababa today, Colonel ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 15, 2018) “Ethiopia should not be a country where some steal in millions of dollars while others scavenge for food in dumpsters,” Ethiopia’s Prime Minister said in his written statement today. Dr. Abiy Ahmed has vowed that his government would continue crackdown on officials suspected of corruption and human rights abuses. Scores of army ...