ESAT News (March 23, 2016) The former vice president of All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP), Zemene Meheret, who is recently released on bail after 14 months in jail on trumped up charges, said he and his cellmates were tortured by agents of the ruling TPLF in the most inhuman way, because, as the tormenters told them, they were Amharas. Zemene ...

ESAT News (March 22, 2016) The protest that began on Sunday in Dansha, north Gondar, continued for the third day on Tuesday and people in the nearby Soroka have shown their solidarity to stand with the people of Wolkait in their struggle to free themselves from the TPLF tyranny. There was exchange of fire on Monday between armed men in ...

ESAT News (March 22, 2016) Senior members of the Oromo Peoples’ Democratic Organization (OPDO), a member of the ruling coalition EPRDF, said at the end of a marathon meeting over the weekend that Abay Tsehay a senior member of the ruling TPLF, known for his offensive remarks against the people of Oromo, should be brought to justice. The OPDO members ...

ESAT News (March 21, 2016) There has been reports of exchange of fire between Ethiopian regime forces and the people of Wolkait who have been demanding the government to respect their identity as Amhara and reinstate their state of affairs and administration to the Amahara region. The Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front (TPLF) that took power in 1991 annexed the northern ...

ESAT News (March 19, 2016) Hunger stricken people from rural Ethiopia are fleeing to cities in search food to save their lives. Some of the victims who spoke to ESAT’s stringer in Addis Ababa said they had no option but leave their villages to save their lives. The Ethiopian government has so far been playing down the magnitude of the ...

ESAT News (March 18, 2016) David Cameron has written to the Ethiopian prime minister twice to express concern over the continued detention of Andargachew Tsige, who is on death row, BuzzFeed News reported on Thursday. But a memo from the Foreign Office to Downing Street admits “no concrete progress” is being made to free Andy Tsige, despite the UK giving ...

ESAT News (March 17, 2016) A report compiled by a group of professionals in south Omo Zone in south Ethiopia and sent to ESAT indicate 98.9% of the investment land in south Omo zone has been allocated to members of the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front (TPLF), the minority ruling clique in Ethiopia. Of the 106,997.7 hectares of land allocated for ...

  ESAT News (March 16, 2016) A representative of the Blue Party in Borena zone, and an organizer of the ongoing protest in Guji zone, in the Oromia region of Ethiopia told ESAT on Wednesday that the heavy presence of Agazi forces, a special kill squad of the regime in Addis Ababa had made the situation even tense in the ...

  ESAT News (March 15, 2016) Ethiopians living in the metropolitan Washington, DC area held a demonstration at the US State Department on Tuesday denouncing the human rights violations perpetrated by the tyrannical regime in their country against the people of Surma in South Ethiopia as well as the human rights abuses at various locations in the country. The demonstrators ...

ESAT News (March 16, 2016) Survival International said in a report that it has reported Italian engineering giant Salini to the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) over its construction of a controversial dam which is set to destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in Ethiopia and Kenya. The dam has cut off the Omo River’s ...