ESAT News (July 6, 2016) Cronies and multi-million dollar companies with connections to the regime in Ethiopia allegedly forced the liquidation of what could be a self-sufficient sugar company for the country’s growing need for the sweet commodity. In an exclusive interview with ESAT, former manager of the Hiber Sugar Factory S.C., Minalachew Simachew gave detailed account of how individuals ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2016) Security forces have detained over 200 people in the capital Addis Ababa after thousands of homes, deemed illegal by the government, were demolished. Six people, including two police officers, were killed in the confrontation last week and authorities are carrying out mass arrests in connection with the killings of the officers. The residents said the ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2016) Ethiopian farmers in Tach Armacheho, North Gondar, reportedly killed five Sudanese soldiers following an incursion by the Sudanese into Ethiopian farmlands. An Ethiopian farmer, Godana Amde, was killed in the battle on Saturday that was sparked by the incursion and burning of an Ethiopian farm by the Sudanese soldiers who crossed the Guang River and ...

ESAT News (July 1, 2016) The TPLF regime in Ethiopia has been moving its army and heavy military equipment in large numbers to the north of the country, according to eyewitness accounts. The witnesses said public transport buses, as per the instructions given by the regime, have been transporting large numbers of the army from south and central regions of ...

ESAT News (June 30, 2016) Estimates of the number of people killed in Wednesday’s clash between residents and police vary, but at least three officers have reportedly been stoned to death by residents of Addis Ababa who were furious that authorities moved ahead with plans to demolish houses that they deem illegal. Residents in Kontoma and Mango localities in Woreda ...

ESAT News (June 30, 2016) The Ethiopian regime has prevented Habtamu Ayalew, a leading member of the banned Unity for Democracy and Justice a.k.a  Andinet, from travelling abroad for treatment. Habtamu is in a hospital bed in Addis Ababa. His doctors described his condition as critical. Diagnosis and treatment in his case is not available in the country and doctors ...

ESAT News (June 29, 2016)     The TPLF regime is reportedly detaining non-Tigrayan members of the intelligence and security after unknown assailants killed 9 intelligence operatives in the last four months, according to sources close to ESAT. The spies being rounded up by the regime were suspected of involvement in the killing of the operatives that include three intelligence ...

ESAT News (June 28, 2016) A prominent leader of an Oromo opposition party, Bekele Gerba and his codefendants were still held in dark rooms and they were allowed visitations by family for only less than 15 minutes a week. The defendants appeared before a court in Addis Ababa today with the court further adjourning their case to decide on whether ...

  ESAT News (June 27, 2016) After attempts by the regime to lure the Ethiopian youth into its army had failed miserably, cadres of the TPLF regime are now telling the people in the Amhara region, who are faced with the threat of famine, to enlist in the army or face hunger. Dispatches by ESAT’s stringer reveal regime cadres were ...

  ESAT News (June 25, 2016) Residents in the Somali region of Ethiopia said the TPLF regime is dumping the bodies of its soldiers who were killed in fighting in Somalia everywhere, inflicting a heavy psychological trauma on people in the region. Some residents confided to ESAT that the bodies of soldiers killed in Baidoa, Mogadishu and other areas in ...