ESAT News (March 27, 2018) The International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies said 100 Ethiopian households were migrating to Kenya and projected that the population could reach 15,000 by the end of this month. The figure does not include those migrants who are under the care of relatives on the Kenyan side. About 40,000 people fled to ...

ESAT News (March 26, 2018) Nineteen people have reportedly been arrested in the city of Bahir Dar on Saturday by the orders of the Command Post, the authority in charge of the state of emergency declared in Ethiopia. They were accused by the Command Post of planning to form an Amhara political party, but the detainees say they had a ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 25, 2018) A dozen members of the opposition, activists, and journalists have been detained in Addis Ababa. Some of the detainees include the recently released opposition, political leaders, and journalists. Among them is leading opposition figure, Andualem Arage and award-winning journalists Eskinder Nega and Temesgen Desalegn, who were released last month after almost seven ...

ESAT News (March 23, 2018) Eritrea said today that the State of Qatar provided the Sudanese Defence Forces three MiG fighter jets that were subsequently deployed in Kassala, near its border with Sudan. Eritrea also claimed the provisions of the jets were “purportedly done” to what the Sudan and Qatar said was to “thwart an attack from Eritrea that would ...

ESAT News (March 23, 2018) Over 600 migrants from the Horn of Africa have reportedly been detained in a warehouse-cum-jail in Southern Yemeni city of Aden, according to a report by the Reuters. The migrants, mostly from Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia are faced with dwindling provisions of food and drinking water. The report by the Reuters said authorities in Yemen ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 22, 2018) The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the core of the ruling coalition, has demanded the dismissal of those Members of Parliament at the House of People’s Representatives who voted against the reimposition of a state of emergency saying they had stood against the position of the ruling EPRDF, according to ESAT sources. ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 22, 2018) Ethiopia and a faction of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement led by Riek Machar opposed the proposal by the South Sudanese government earlier this week that the venue for upcoming peace talks should be moved outside Ethiopia citing ongoing political crisis in the country. Both Ethiopia and Juba also called “fake news” ...