ESAT News (April 5, 2016) Nine Ethiopians died on Friday at the Mediterranean Sea trying to cross on boat to the European shores. A mother and her two children were among the dead. The boat that departed Egypt early Friday was heading to Europe when it capsizes due to a squall at the sea. ESAT received a gruesome picture of ...

ESAT News (April 4, 2016) Ethiopian officials ordered ships loaded with food aid to Ethiopia waiting at the port of Djibouti to sail to the Ports of Berbera in Somaliland and Sudan as the waiting time at the Port of Djibouti has been found to be too long. Aid agencies fear the delay in the arrival of the food aid ...

ESAT News (April 4, 2016) A river that passes through the town of Jijiga, in Somali region of eastern Ethiopia over flooded Sunday night killing at least 13 while over 50 others were unaccounted for till Monday. The regional police also said a father who lost his six children had died on Monday. Heavy rain that was falling for hours ...

ESAT News (April 4, 2016) The management of the Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT) announced that its satellite television transmission to Ethiopia has resumed on Sunday (April 3, 2016) after a long interruption resulted from the jamming of its transmission by the regime in Ethiopia. The management said the regime in Ethiopia has jammed ESAT’s transmission for over 20 ...

ESAT News (April 2, 2016) The Ethiopian Federal Democratic Unity Forum, also known as Medrek, said in a statement on Friday that the regime arrested 2,627 people in the Oromia region in the last three weeks alone. The statement said the figure only refers to the number of people arrested after the Prime Minister apologized in a televised speech for ...

ESAT News (April 2, 2016) Residents of Debre Zeit (Bishoftu) town held a demonstration on Friday denouncing a grenade attack on Thursday that killed a 3 year old and injured parents. The residents demand the perpetrators be brought to justice. An unidentified individual on Thursday threw the bomb at the Awash Hotel and the explosion killed a three year old ...

ESAT News (March 31, 2016) US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski who traveled to Ethiopia on Tuesday as part of a follow-up on president Obama’s July visit to Addis Ababa had held discussions with Ethiopian government officials on issues of human rights and governance. The US Assistant Secretary met with State Minister of ...

ESAT News (March 31, 2016) A hand grenade was thrown at a hotel in Debre Zeit, a.k.a. Bishoftu town few miles outside Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, killing a child and injuring the parents, according to eyewitnesses and local media reports. The unidentified individual threw the bomb at the Awash Hotel and the explosion killed a three year old child. There ...

ESAT News (March 30, 2016) Ethiopian regime forces continue to mass arrest in the Oromia region of the country where people have been protesting against political and economic marginalization for the last four months. Chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress, Dr. Merara Gudina told ESAT on Wednesday that the regime has recently arrested about three thousand more people. This is ...