ESAT News (July 29, 2016) The public revolt in Gondar will be joined by other towns in the Amhara region as residents prepare to hold demonstrations on Sunday against the persecution Amharas by the minority Tigrayan regime. The uprising in Gondar was sparked two weeks ago as TPLF security forces came to the town and arrested members of a committee ...

ESAT News (July 29, 2016) Political prisoners who were on hunger strike for over a week now have become frail and a wife of one of the prisoners told ESAT that she was worried they were not taken to a hospital. Aselefech Mulatu, wife of Dejene Tafa said the prisoners were instead given intravenous fluid while still in their isolated ...

ESAT News (July 28, 2016) Security forces opened fire at residents in Borena, south Ethiopia as they try to quell ongoing protest demanding an end to tyranny. Several security officers entered the town of Kulubuma in Borena after protests against the regime reignited on Tuesday demanding an end to years of oppression against a tyrannical regime. Security forces opened fire ...

ESAT News (July 26, 2016) Special Forces of the TPLF regime, locally known as Agazi, were on Tuesday going door to door in towns in West Arsi, Oromo region arresting people suspected of taking part in protests that reignited this week. The Oromo regional administration meanwhile said one woman was killed and five others were injured in the protest that ...

ESAT News (July 27, 2016) The North West Division of the Defense Forces disclosed that 19 members of the Force were killed while 18 others sustained injuries in confrontations with residents of Gondar, northern Ethiopia, in the last two weeks of revolt by the people. At a meeting held at a military barracks in Bahir Dar, commander of the Division, ...

ESAT News (July 26, 2016) Anti-government protests continued in the Oromo region of Ethiopia as demonstrations in West Arsi towns turned violent on Monday. In Dodola, Adaba and Asasa towns demonstrators demanded the release of their compatriots detained by the regime in the ongoing protests that is well into its eighth month. Security forces opened fire at the protesters but ...

ESAT News (July 26, 2016) The former chief of staff of the Ethiopian armed forces Let. General Tsadkan Gebre Tinsay, who warned that the status quo in Ethiopia could lead to total chaos called for a smooth and peaceful transition to a democratic government. The general who wrote a lengthy article analyzing the state of affairs in the present Ethiopia ...

ESAT News (July 23, 2016) Cholera killed 30 people in a locality called Meneye in North Shewa, Oromo region since the onset of the outbreak two weeks ago. Ninety four others have been hospitalized, according to sources. ESAT’s sources in the area say the local health workers have been warned by regime operatives not to reveal the outbreak of the ...

  ESAT News (July 23, 2016) A US based watchdog organization warned that TPLF’s model of ruling through complete control in all aspects of peoples’ lives will soon reach its breaking point. “Protests in Oromia and growing ethnic tensions in the Amhara and South regions are viewed as indications that EPRDF’s model of governing through complete control over all levels ...

ESAT News (July 22, 2016) The African Union said it would launch an investigation into the killing of 14 innocent Somalis by Ethiopian soldiers, according to the AU peace keeping mission in Somalia. The AU said it has received information that the Ethiopian soldiers last week killed innocent Somalis in Warding town during a fight with Al Shabaab, AFP reported. ...