ESAT News (July 22, 2016) Two Ethiopians tried self-immolation at the headquarters of the UNHCR in Cairo, Egypt after the office refused their request for immigration to a third country. The two Ethiopians came to Egypt escaping from the cruel hands of Ethiopian regime forces cracking down on ongoing uprising in the Oromo region. Police and other Ethiopians at the ...

  ESAT News (July 21, 2016) People in Borena, Oromo region in south Ethiopia held a demonstration on Thursday denouncing the maladministration, corruption and injustice under a tyrannical regime. Students and residents of Yabelo town in Borena have also expressed their outrage that they were being administered by incapable, uneducated and corrupt officials directly appointed by the regime in Addis ...

ESAT News (July 20, 2016) Cholera outbreak is fast spreading in the capital Addis Ababa and so far six people have reportedly been dead from the diseases. Aid agencies fear the ongoing rainy season that will run till the end of August could spread the disease further. 26 satellite clinics have been set up throughout the capital to combat the ...

  ESAT News (July 20, 2016) Regime security forces shot and wounded five in protests in Jeldu district of the Oromo region, west of the capital Addis Ababa. The protest which began on Monday continues on Tuesday as people took to the street denouncing the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia. A number of people were arrested by the regime’s security on ...

ESAT News (July 19, 2016) Ethiopians in the Washington, DC metro area denounced the killings and arrests perpetrated by the TPLF regime against the people of Gondar who simply demanded their political rights. Hundreds of Ethiopians gathered at the US State Department on Monday holding slogans denouncing the brutal attack by the tyrannical regime in their home country against the ...

  ESAT News (July 19, 2016) About a thousand decommissioned Tigrayan officers are holding a three day secret meeting in the capital Addis Ababa since Sunday, reliable sources told ESAT on Monday. The agenda of the secret meeting is not clear but the sources said the fact that the ethnocentric regime called only Tigrayan officers to the meeting was a ...

  ESAT News (July 16, 2016) Rebellion against the TPLF regime continued for the fifth day on Saturday in Gondar as other towns join the uprising. Observers fear the worst as the symbol of the resistance, Col. Demeke Zewdu was transferred to a local prison on Saturday. He was in the custody of the regional police since Tuesday and TPLF ...

ESAT News (July 15, 2016) Unrest in the historic town of Gondar continued on Thursday, the third day of protest against the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia. Video footages reaching ESAT show people wielding their rifles and guns, chanting war songs and denouncing the oppressive minority government. Nine federal police officers and a soldier were killed as the people defended themselves ...

ESAT News (July 14, 2016) Chairman of the Patriotic Ginbot 7 Movement for Unity and Democracy, Prof. Berhanu Nega called on all Ethiopians to join the people of Gondar in the fight against TPLF to hasten its downfall. Prof. Berhanu recalled that the demand by the people of north Gondar were peaceful and legitimate but the response by the brutal ...

ESAT News (July 14, 2016) Harsh repression of dissent, use of the anti-terrorism law to imprison journalists and bloggers, opposition leaders, and civil society activists as well as rigged elections where the ruling EPRDF declared 100% victory are all signs that the regime in Ethiopia could not be a viable US partner, according to Mark Lagon, President of Freedom House. ...