ESAT News (August 6, 2016) A resident of the town told ESAT on the phone that farmers in Azezo who engaged regime soldiers in a gun battle all day on Saturday took over the military camp in the town. ESAT could not independently verify the claim and it is not clear which side controls the town of Azezo. Heavy fighting ...

ESAT News (August 6, 2016) From Borena to Gondar, Harar to Wollega, Ethiopians raised their voice loud and clear denouncing tyranny and expressing solidarity with one another despite years of divide and rule along ethnic lines by the minority regime. Protesters in the Oromo region expressed solidarity with their compatriots in Gondar and Amharas everywhere saying “Stop killing the Amharas!” ...

ESAT News (August 5, 2016) At least seven people were shot and killed by regime security forces as protests flared up again in Gondar on Friday. Among the dead include two women and a teenager. In Azezo, Gondar, the 24th division of the army had exchanged fire with armed farmers, although the extent of casualties is not yet known. ESAT’s ...

UPDATE Reliable sources say two people have been shot and killed in Gondar in the protest that’s underway at the time of this post. A number others have also been wounded as security forces shot indiscriminately at protesters. ESAT’s sources also said a soldier was killed in the protest rally that turned violent when regime forces, locally known as Agazi ...

ESAT News (August 4, 2016) The Addis Ababa City Health Bureau said cholera was fast spreading in the city and it could not control the pace of the spread of the disease. The Bureau said the number of people infected every day with the waterborne disease is staggering. The Bureau blames residents for failing to strictly adhere to prevention mechanisms ...

ESAT News (August 3, 2016) Thousands of Ethiopians have been stranded in South Sudan and their government has not responded to their calls for rescue. The Ethiopians told ESAT that their plea to the Ethiopian Embassy in South Sudan did not get a favorable response. They were simply told the Ambassador was back in Addis Ababa and that there was ...

ESAT News (August 3, 2016) Sudan says its militia has arrested 600 Ethiopian migrants near the border with Libya and Egypt as the Ethiopians were on the perilous journey to Europe. “The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has arrested about 600 illegal Ethiopian migrants and thwarted several human trafficking operations near Sudan’s border with Egypt and Libya and at Al-Nakheel area ...

  ESAT News (August 3, 2016) Security forces on Tuesday opened fire at a funeral in Bedesa town, West Hararge, Oromo region, killing two and inflicting injuries to at least 15 others. The funeral was being held for two individuals who were shot and killed by security forces on Monday during a protest demonstration in the town. A resident of ...

ESAT News (August 2, 2016) On a day of a historic protest demonstration that peacefully concluded in Gondar, northern Ethiopia, security forces of the regime on Sunday unleashed their brute force on peaceful demonstrators in Aweday, a commercial town in the eastern part of the country, killing six people and injuring over twenty. News of the killings in Aweday was ...

ESAT News (July 31, 2016) Hundreds of thousands of people held a peaceful demonstration in Gondar and other towns denouncing the regime and calling for an end to tyranny. Residents of Gondar and its environs headed to the central square of this historic city in the early hours of the morning on Sunday, despite the presence of thousands of regime ...