ESAT News (April 27, 2016) The Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that the Ethiopian government was responsible for the recent killing of over 200 people and the abduction of women and children in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. The Council said the government did not protect its citizens knowing very well that armed tribes from South Sudan have repeatedly ...

ESAT News (April 27, 2016) Okello Aquay, the former administrator of the Gambella region who was abducted from South Sudan two years ago by operatives of the TPLF regime was sentenced on Wednesday to nine years in prison on trumped up terrorism charges. Okello was in office in the 2003 genocide against the Anyuak of Gambella perpetrated by the TPLF ...

ESAT News (April 26, 2016) Tension continues in the Gambella region of Ethiopia following the killing of 21 Ethiopians last weekend by refugees from South Sudan as well as the killing of over 200 Ethiopians by the Murle tribesmen who crossed the border from South Sudan and abducted over a hundred women and children after perpetrating the killings. Security forces ...

ESAT News (April 26, 2016) Four of the 22 political prisoners detained on trumped up terrorism charges told a court in Addis Ababa on Tuesday that they were asked by prison officials to take pills that they neither ask for nor prescribed by their doctor. Refusing to take the pills, the four prisoners were separated from the rest and put ...

ESAT News (April 25, 2016) The Ethiopian government had allocated millions of dollars for cotton plantation in the last few years but investors who took the loans had only used a fraction of the money for the intended purpose. According to the Textile Industry Development Institute, about 3 billion birr (150 million USD) was loaned to investors but most of ...

ESAT News (April 25, 2016) According to a report filed by the Reuters, flash floods in drought-stricken parts of Ethiopia have killed people and livestock and are blocking food aid deliveries to hungry communities, a charity said. Ethiopians have been waiting for the spring rains to replenish water sources and to plant crops after the most severe drought in decades ...

ESAT News (April 22, 2016) South Sudan refugees in Gambella, Ethiopia killed at least 13 Ethiopians on Thursday after a car accident claimed the lives of two of their own. The refugees at the Jawi camp in Gambella went on a killing spree, apparently motivated by revenge, after an Ethiopian driver struck and killed two refugees. At least 10 people ...

ESAT News (April 22, 2016) The Ethiopian government on Friday charged a leading member of an opposition party, Bekele Gerba and 21 others with terrorism, quoting its anti-terrorism proclamation that the regime uses to silence dissent. According to the charges, the 22 defendants were accused of being a members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which the regime declared a ...

ESAT News (April 21, 2016) The fate of 74 Ethiopian migrants dropped by Tanzania at the Kenya border was still unclear as the two countries got into a diplomatic row. Tanzania dumped the Ethiopians at the border with Kenya after serving their time for illegal entry. Tanzania says the immigrants entered the country through its border with Kenya and dropped ...

ESAT News (April 21, 2016) An assassination attempt was made on Nuru Turki one of the jailed leaders of the Ethiopians Muslims movement, ESAT’s sources said. The source believe that last week’s assassination attempt was orchestrated by prison officials to coerce leaders of the Muslim community, who are languishing in jail on trumped up terrorism charges, to sign a pardon ...