ESAT News (May 6, 2016) The number of people coming to the city from areas seriously affected by drought has been on the rise. ESAT‘s stringer in the capital Addis Ababa has seen an increase in the number hunger stricken people from Tigray in the last few weeks. Some of the farmers who spoke to the stringer said they have ...

ESAT News (May 6, 2016) Hundreds of families in Akaki and Kality in the vicinity of the capital would be forcefully relocated despite objections by the farmers who wish to stay on their land. At a meeting with the farmers, government officials warned that the farmers would be removed by force if they failed to heed to government’s orders to ...

ESAT News (May 4, 2016) South Sudan’s government said it located more than 100 children abducted last month from Ethiopia and that troops from the neighboring country crossed the border to help search for them, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The children are unharmed and being held by raiders from the Murle community in a remote area about 300 kilometers (186 ...

ESAT News (May 4, 2016) The kangaroo courts of the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia continued insistently on hearing trumped up charges of terrorism brought against opposition politicians despite deep concern and condemnation by the international community and rights groups against the concocted charges by the government. Former member of the Blue Party, Yonatan Tesfaye was charged with terrorism on Wednesday ...

ESAT News (May 3, 2016) The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) said in a statement on Tuesday that it strongly condemns “the TPLF/EPRDF Government’s endless manipulations of the justice system to its own political ends – which was once again manifested in the fully fabricated allegations and charges filed against 22 (twenty-two) Oromo nationals.” “It surprised ...

ESAT News (May 3, 2016) Some eastern areas of Ethiopia will suffer severe hunger and increased deaths through at least September after a drought last year resulted in two harvests being missed, Bloomberg quoted the Famine Early Warning Systems Network as saying. Across Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, the number of children treated for malnutrition in February increased 14 percent ...

ESAT News (May 2, 2016) Thirty-two of the over 100 Ethiopian children who were kidnapped from the country’s Gambela region two weeks ago have been recovered, authorities in South Sudan told the Associated Press (AP) on Saturday. More than 200 people were killed and 102 children abducted by armed men from South Sudan in a cross-border raid into Ethiopia on April ...

ESAT News (May 2, 2016) Interim Galmudug Administration (IGA) President Abdikarin Hussein Guledon is in the capital of Somali regional State of Ethiopia, Jijiga for key talks regarding a recent hostility in border areas, Garowe Online reports. At least ten people were killed after Ethiopian Special Police paramilitary units clashed with armed pastoralists in Daadheer vicinity last month. Ethiopian Somali ...

ESAT News (April 30, 2016) On April 11, 2016, ESAT published an exclusive story that the Ethiopian government had stopped the fundraising campaign by UN agencies to help millions of Ethiopians facing famine. In that story titled “Ethiopian government stops fundraising campaign by UN agencies for famine to save image,” ESAT, based on information obtained from reliable sources, reported that ...

ESAT News (April 29, 2016) The United States said it is deeply concerned by the Government of Ethiopia’s recent decision to file terrorism charges against Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) First Vice-Chairman Bekele Gerba and others in the Oromia region who were arrested in late 2015, according to a press statement issued Friday by the US State Department. “We again urge ...