ESAT News (august 29, 2017) Revenue from export trade fell short of its goal with only 2.9 billion dollars of the targeted 4.75 billion dollars earned this year, according to the country’s Ministry of Trade. The Ministry said of the 2.9 billion dollars obtained, coffee took the lion’s share of the proceeds. Even then, proceeds from coffee fell 58 million ...

ESAT News (August 29, 2017) The Ethiopian regime is to transfer the administration of disputed areas to the Sudan for a period of ten years, according to sources with access to documents and maps of the disputed areas that locals claim were historically in Gondar. The new development came after Ethiopia’s Prime Minister paid a visit to the Sudan last ...

ESAT News (August 28, 2017) Three people were reportedly injured after an hour long gun battle today between Somali and Oromo pastoralist communities in Meiso, Harar. According to a witness who spoke to ESAT on the phone, the fighting has taken place in two localities near the town of Meiso as a result of the going border dispute between the ...

ESAT News (August 28, 2017) The illegal dumping of toxic along Ethiopia’s road construction routes is resulting in higher rates of child mortality and increased rates of diseases associated with exposure to toxins, according to early research by economists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The researchers were able to link increased rates of ...

ESAT News (August 28, 2017) A former Guinean mining minister was sentenced to 7 years in jail for laundering 8.5 million dollars, money that he took as bribes from a Chinese mineral company. Mahmoud Thiam was convicted in May of taking illegal payments to help China International Fund Ltd. win exclusive rights to mine Guinea’s iron, gold, diamonds and bauxite ...

ESAT News (August 256, 2017) Thousands of passengers have reportedly been stranded in the capital Addis Ababa as regional buses cancelled their trip due to ongoing strikes in the Oromo region. Buses leaving the capital had to pass through districts within the Oromo administration that surround Addis Ababa. Several buses were attacked in the last three days by stone throwing ...

ESAT News (August 25, 2017) The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Ethiopia due to “the potential for civil unrest and arbitrary detention.” Replacing its travel warning issued in June the Department said “there continue to be reports of unrest, particularly in the Gondar region and Bahir Dar in Amhara State, and parts of ...

ESAT News (August 25, 2017) The Human Rights Watch says Saudi Arabia should halt the deportations of Ethiopians from the Kingdom until it can establish refugee status determination procedures for those at risk of persecution, who are fleeing repression back home. “Should expulsions be carried out—as during an earlier expulsion of irregular migrants in 2013, many thousands of Ethiopians who ...

ESAT News (August 24, 2017) The main market district in the capital Addis Ababa was quiet today due to business and transportation strikes in the larger Oromo region that entered second day today. No merchandise was arriving in Mercato, which receives most of its produce from the Oromo region. Trucks that deliver produce to retailers were also seen parked idle. ...

ESAT News (August 24, 2017) A bomb explosion in Jimma, 300 miles south west of the capital Addis Ababa injured 13 people, FBC, a state affiliated media reported today. The explosion took place at noon between two buildings and the injured including a 10 year old child and two women were taken to Jimma University Hospital, FBC quoted police as ...