ESAT News (November 30, 2017) Sixteen members of the army guarding the Arba-Minch Airport have disappeared, according to ESAT sources. The sources said 13 soldiers had initially disappeared and three soldiers who were sent to search have also not heard from. Tensions are high in the town of Arba-Minch following the news of the soldiers disappearance, the sources said. In ...

ESAT News (November 30, 2017) Dr. Frank Ashall, a British medical doctor who was also a rights activist and humanitarian passed away on Saturday, his family confirmed to ESAT. Dr. Ashall was a volunteer in Ethiopia with British Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) for a year, from 2012 to 2013. After completion of his volunteer program he decided to stay in ...

ESAT News (November 29, 2017) Security forces killed six people in Eastern Hararghe where protests have continued for several days against the TPLF regime. Chelenko, Gursum, Bedeno, Babile, Aweday are some of the towns in Eastern Hararghe where residents took to the streets to protest but met with deadly forces by security forces. Agazi forces of the regime and the ...

ESAT News (November 29, 2017) At least 1,300 Ethiopians have been deported from Saudi Arabia as the Kingdom’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants began last week. In March, Saudi declared a 90-day amnesty for undocumented immigrants to leave the Kingdom and return legally. That amnesty was extended twice before authorities began deporting undocumented workers last week. Over 70,000 Ethiopian nationals have ...

ESAT News (November 28, 2017) Protest by university students against the regime in Ethiopia continued as about 35,000 students of the Haromaya University left their campuses. The students of Haromaya University had left their campuses a week ago but returned as the Aba Gedas, traditional leaders of the Oromos, promised to broker a deal and obtain a favorable response from ...

ESAT News (November 28, 2017) The Borena Zonal administration said in a letter to the prime minister and other government offices that regime’s army members had shot and killed three in a locality called Sodo in Dire district, while nineteen other were wounded. The letter published by several media outlets say the regime’s army had carried out the killings last ...

ESAT News (November 27, 2017) The Supreme Court of Ethiopia reduced jail sentences for Yonatan Tesfaye, activist and former public relations head for the Blue Party, who was sentenced to six and half years for a Facebook post. But lawyers commenting on the court’s decision say Yonatan shouldn’t be put in jail in the first place. Yonatan was put behind ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 27, 2017) The marathon congress of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Ethiopia’s ruling clique, has removed Abay Woldu as chairman of the Front, according a statement issued by the Front. The statement said Abay Woldu is will continue as a member of the central committee. The congress of the TPLF executive and central ...

ESAT News (November 24, 2017) As search for soldiers who are said have deserted from the army in Southern Ethiopia continued, new reports indicate that one soldier was killed in a shootout between a commander and soldiers who were dispatched to search for the deserters. Thirty-eight soldiers with the 10th division of the army in southern Ethiopia disappeared Monday along ...

ESAT News (November 24, 2017) TPLF special forces that were deployed to Borbor, near Moyale, in the country’s southern border, have reportedly launched deadly attacks against locals killing at least 27 people. The TPLF forces have been accused of pitting ethnic Somalis against Oromos who share common resources in Southern Ethiopia. The forces have reportedly used a dispute over land ...