ESAT News (September 13, 2017) Kenyan police say they have arrested 60 Ethiopian immigrants from a residential estate in Nairobi. According to a report by the Xinhua News Agency, Kenyan security officers said the Ethiopians were found hiding in a house at Mihang’o area in Kayole, east of capital city. The report said the Ethiopians were being fed with bread ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) At least a dozen of people have reportedly been killed in Eastern Ethiopia as violence continues on Wednesday and hundreds of Oromos forced to leave the Somali region. Deder and Aweday are two towns that have seen the deadliest so far since new waves of violence began on Monday following an ongoing border dispute between ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) Somalis residing in U.K. held a protest rally at the Ethiopian Embassy in London to express their anger against the extradition of a leading member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). Somalia last week handed over Abdikarin Sheikh Muse to Ethiopia. The extradition of Sheik Muse sparked uproar among the Somali community at home ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) U.S. forces conducted three airstrikes in Somalia today killing six Al-Shabaab militants. The operation occurred in southern Somalia, about 260 kilometers south of the capital, Mogadishu. Lethal action against al-Shabaab within a geographically-defined area in support of partner forces in Somalia, according to a press release by the U.S. Africa Command. “U.S. forces will continue ...

ESAT News (September 12, 2017) Heavy rains over flooded the Awash River displacing thousands of locals in Amibara, Afar region. Reports say up to 3,000 people might have been displaced by the flooding that resulted from days of heavy down pour. The flooding from the River also inundated the Sodere Resort Hotel. Guests have reportedly been stranded since Friday. Some ...

ESAT News (September 12, 2017) An estimated 5000 Sidamas were evicted from Bale Zone following orders by local authorities. A witness told ESAT that the lives of thousands is in peril. The witness said the about 5000 Sidamas have settled in Chiri district in Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Authorities have ordered the Sidamas, who lived in Bale in harmony with ...

ESAT News (September 12, 2017) Two people were killed and several others wounded in the ongoing clashes between the Somali and Oromo communities in Eastern Ethiopia as the president of the Somali region, Abdi Omar, reportedly decreed the Oromos to leave the region. The Oromos held protest rallies in Aweday, Deder, Kobo, and Chinaksen towns today against the violent actions ...

ESAT News (Sept. 11, 2017) Israel Chemicals (ICL) files a 198M dollars compensation suit against the Ethiopian government for losses it incurred due to the latter’s “failure to provide the necessary infrastructures and regulatory framework.” ICL ended its potash project in Ethiopia in October 2016 after the Ethiopian government assessed what ICL called “unjustified and illegal tax assessment.” A local ...

ESAT News (September 11, 2017) Arik Air, a Nigerian airline, has filed a 55.6 million dollars suit against the the Nigerian government and Ethiopian Airlines over recent news in the media that Ethiopian Airlines was negotiating with the Nigerian government to takeover the management of Arik Air Limited. According to a copy of the suit obtained by the News Agency ...

ESAT News (September 8, 2017) A former land administrator in the Amhara region says the recent pact signed between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM) has illegally transferred several villages to the Tigray region. The land administration expert who wish to remain anonymous told ESAT that two areas – Gichew and Gobe – ...