ESAT News (September 7, 2017) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said an executive member of the Front, Abdikarin Sheikh Muse, who was handed over to Ethiopia last week was not a terrorist as described by the cabinet of the Somali government. Hassan Abdulahi, a senior member and spokesperson of the ONLF, was responding to statementents by the Somali government ...

ESAT News (September 7, 2017) The United States said it has conducted a precision airstrike in central Somalia against al-Shabaab militants killing three of its members. The strike on Tuesday was carried out in the Bay Region of Somalia, about 75 kilometers west of the capital, Mogadishu. The U.S. Africa command said in a statement that the Department of Defense ...

ESAT News (September 6, 2017) Four children were reportedly injured today when a grenade was thrown into a school in Meiso, Harar in eastern Ethiopia. Reports also say six people were injured in the ensuing shootout in the town. The injured students were at the school for registration when the grenade was thrown. Residents of the town blamed the Somali ...

ESAT News (September 4, 2017) Ethiopians took to the social media to express their anger over the cancellation Sunday of Teddy Afro’s album release party by authorities who have also banned his new year concert. Lyrics by Ethiopia’s king of reggae preaching unity and peaceful coexistence do not bode well for the ominous agenda of the ethnocentric regime that divide ...

ESAT News (September 1, 2017) A 1.8 billion dollars is due this year to creditors but an empty coffer is worrying authorities in Addis Ababa who took 40 billion dollars in loans from various creditors. According to ESAT sources, it would be impossible to pay the amount due this year when the the country was able to generate only 2.9 ...

ESAT News (September 1, 2017) Over 50 people were reportedly killed in Meiso, Harar in clashes between the Somali region special police and Oromos residing on the border with the Somali region. The Oromos accuse that the Somali regional government had sent the Liyou (Special) police force in the areas bordering the two side to forcefully crush a dispute between ...

ESAT News (August 31, 2017) The heads of the three UN food agencies will visit Ethiopia Friday to highlight the critical food and nutrition security situation. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s Director-General José Graziano da Silva, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Gilbert F. Houngbo and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), ...

ESAT News (August 31, 2017) Thirty prisoners taken from Wolkait, Gondar and locked in a prison in Mekelle, Tigray are being tortured, according to the chairman of the Arena Party. The chairman, Abraha Desta wrote in his blog that thirty people were taken from Humera and thrown into a prison in Mekelle. He said they are handcuffed at all times ...

ESAT News (August 30, 2017) A pharmacy in Addis Ababa has been banned for three months for selling EPO without prescription. A joint investigation by the Guardian and the German broadcaster ARD last month revealed that the Gishen Pharmacy, located just across the Addis Ababa Stadium, have sold vials of EPO to athletes and others who come without prescription. The ...

ESAT News (August 30, 2017) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) denounced the refoulement of Abdikarin Sheikh Muse, an executive committee member of the Front to Ethiopia. Mr. Sheik Muse, who lived in Mogadishu for three years, was detained by the regional security of the Galkacyo, Galmudug regional state in central Somalia on August 23, 2017, according to a press ...