ESAT News (July 13, 2016)   ESAT News (July 13, 2016) Amid reports of clashes in Gondar town between residents and TPLF forces in which ten people, including four members of the forces were killed, the regime’s anti-terrorism taskforce said in a statement that it had apprehended individuals whom it said had killed three of its security operatives in a ...

ESAT News (July 13, 2016) In one of the deadliest days in the town of Gondar, northern Ethiopia, six residents and four members of regime forces were killed on Tuesday. The killings began when TPLF forces from Tigray came to the town of Gondar in the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday and apprehended four members of a committee ...

ESAT News (July 12, 2016) The Ethiopian regime has said it has blocked social media to keep students sitting for university entrance exams from distraction. But critics believe that it was an excuse to censor the internet by a regime that is also a leading jailer of journalists. Facebook, Twitter, Viber and Instagram were all blocked by the latest crackdown ...

ESAT News (July 12, 2016) Security forces shot and killed a 9th grader in the town of Ginchi, 50 miles outside the capital Addis Ababa, as they shot indiscriminately at a crowd of protesters. The father of Eshetu Worku, who spoke to ESAT said his son was shot in the neck by the security forces and died instantly. Protest continued ...

ESAT News (July 12, 2016) Forty four  farmers who are members of the opposition Andenet were detained by security forces for refusing to take fertilizers provided in loan by the government, a representative of the party told ESAT. The farmers have been detained for 10 days without appearing in court. The detainees include an eighty year old man. According to ...

ESAT News (July 7, 2016) Residents of Addis Ababa were outraged after they have found out that authorities moved to demolish two churches in the capital. Two of the churches are located at the ongoing demolishing site where thousands of homes were bulldozed, rendering over 30,000 people homeless. Last week, a demolishing team attempted to tear down the Saint Uriel ...

ESAT News (July 8, 2016) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa that his government is committed to reuniting thousands of Ethiopian Jews with their families who are now in Israel, according to a BBC report. Netanyahu who was in Ethiopia as part of his tour in Africa said the remaining 9,000 Ethiopian Jews will ...

ESAT News (July 7, 2016) A court in Addis Ababa that was expected to act on the case of an opposition politician whose doctors recommended that he should travel abroad for a lifesaving medical procedure has been adjourned indefinitely without lifting the travel ban imposed on the seriously ill politician. Habtamu Ayalew, who was public relations head of Unity for ...

ESAT News (July 7, 2016) A security officer at Ambo University, in a town few miles from the capital Addis Ababa, shot and killed two federal police officers and injured three others. A resident of Ambo town who wish to remain anonymous told ESAT that the alleged killer was still at large as of Wednesday. The source said the officer, ...

ESAT News (July 6, 2016) Exiled journalist Sisay Agena and Tamagn Beyene, an activist and a well-known critic of the Ethiopian government, wrote an open letter to the security chief, Getachew Asefa following intimidation against their family back home in order to silence their criticism of the government. In a joint letter released on Tuesday, Sisay and Tamagn, who now ...