ESAT News (April 20, 2016)   PRESS RELEASE FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a resolution with 11 other Senators today condemning the lethal violence used by the government of Ethiopia against protestors, journalists, and others in civil society for exercising ...

ESAT News (April 20, 2016) Oromo community leaders in Nairobi, Kenya said that Ethiopian refugees are routinely subject to surveillance, harassment, violence and deportation from Kenyan police and border authorities, who they say work in close collaboration with the Ethiopian government, according to a report filed by Okayafrica.com. Okayafrica published a story of Tariku Debela an Oromo political leader residing ...

ESAT News (April 19, 2016) Over 20,000 people have been displaced in Gambella following Friday’s attack by armed men from South Sudan’s Murle tribe that killed 230 and abducted 140 women and children. Head of the Gambella Regional State, Gatluwick Tut told local reporters that the displaced were from three Woredas of the Nuer Zone – Malawe, Jikao and Lare. ...

ESAT News (April 19, 2016) Twenty civic and political organizations wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) calling for the rejection of Dr. Tedros Adhanom’s candidacy for the position of the Director General of the WHO. In a letter to Ms. Malebona Precious Matsoso Chairman of the Executive Board of WHO, ...

ESAT News (April 18, 2016) ESAT’S sources in Gambella said the death toll from the attack on Friday by armed groups from South Sudan against the Nuer of Gambella could be higher than the initial estimate of 208 people. The sources said bodies were still being collected on Monday in areas where the attack took place. Heavily armed South Sudanese ...

ESAT News (April 18, 2016) Several media outlets reported that over 400 people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday after their boats capsized. The refugees from Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea were travelling from Egypt to Italy when the accident took their lives. Most of the dead were Ethiopians. Awel Abdulwahib, an Ethiopian who have lost four family members ...

ESAT News (April 14, 2016) The 2015 country report on Ethiopia by the State Department show an even worsening human rights abuse by the minority regime in Ethiopia, a country considered by the US as its best ally in Africa. The list of the human rights violations are too long but to name a few are “harassment and intimidation of ...

ESAT News (April 14, 2016) Ethnic identity politics and the struggle for self-determination and secession have long ceased to be a source of conflict in the African continent but the issue still continue to be a cause of conflict in Ethiopia, an expert on African security and conflict told ESAT on Thursday. Executive director at the Africa Institute for Strategic ...

ESAT News (April 13, 2016) The Ethiopian government has drafted a law banning the sharing of anti-government protest messages and audiovisuals via phones and computers. The draft law tabled to the parliament on Tuesday make it punishable by law the act of sharing or disseminating any messages or audiovisuals that encourages people to protest against the government. The Ethiopian government ...

ESAT News (April 12, 2016) Defections by the army was top on the agenda at a recent high level military conference presided by the Minister of Defense, Sirage Fergessa and the Chief of Staff Samora Yenus. The Minister told the mid-level officers that the study conducted on the root causes of defections by the army was not satisfactory. The participants ...