ESAT News (August 7, 2017) Security forces have arrested about 30 expats and Ethiopians who work at international and regional offices in Addis Ababa for carrying foreign currency notes. The arrest over the weekend has also targeted members of their families, according to ESAT’s sources. It is not clear on what grounds the arrests were carried out but Ethiopian regulation ...

ESAT News (August 4, 2017) Parents are demanding justice for nine children, all boys, allegedly raped by a high schooler in Addis Ababa. The alleged child rapist, a neighbor to the victims, was caught red-handed by one of the mothers of the victims who spoke to ESAT on Friday. The mother who spoke to ESAT said her child, who was ...

ESAT News (August 4, 2017) The city of Bahir Dar is to commemorate the massacre of over 50 anti-government protesters in August 2016 by snipers of the regime security. Organizers of the commemoration told ESAT that they have called for a stay at home strike for Monday August 7, 2017, the one year anniversary of the mass killings. Over 50 ...

ESAT News (August 4, 2017) Ethiopian state minister of finance and economic cooperation was arrested on Friday suspected of squandering millions of dollars after the country’s parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution. Alemayehu Gujo, who attended today’s parliament, listened as his immunity was lifted; and he was taken into police custody as he left the parliament. Mr. Gujo was accused ...

ESAT News (August 3, 2017) State and ruling party media reported the arrest of a general in connection with the embezzlement of 8 million USD from a government sugar project. Brigadier General Ephrem Bange, an Oromo, and three others were arrested on Tuesday and brought to a court in Addis Ababa today. It was not immediately clear what connection the ...

ESAT News (August 3, 2017) The Trump administration announced more than $169 million in humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia and Kenya to support people affected by prolonged severe drought. Ethiopian regime officials have been saying that they would use available local resources and funds meant for development projects if the international community did not step in to help the drought affected ...

ESAT News (August 2, 2017) Merera Gudina, a prominent opposition to the TPLF regime, will stay in prison as the court handling his case will recess till October. His request for the court to be given the list of names of witnesses presented by prosecutors has sparked a constitutional interpretation argument between him and the court, which sent the issue ...

ESAT News (August 1, 2017) Regime prosecutors charged a prominent opposition politician with terror while another was arrested last week in Bahir Dar. Prosecutors brought charges of terrorism against Mamushet Amare, a former leader of the All Ethiopian Unity Organization, for trespassing the anti-terror proclamation that the regime uses to silence dissent and crackdown on opposition politicians. Amare was accused ...

ESAT News (August 1, 2017) The rubber stamp parliament in Ethiopia has been recalled from recess and is expected to discuss the state of emergency that has been in place since October 2016. The parliament, with 100 percent of the seats taken by the EPRDF in the sham election in 2015, is expected to extend or end the state of ...

ESAT News (July 31, 2017) The Federal Prisons Administration says 529 prisoners have died this Ethiopian year due to lack of access to medical care. About 14,000 prisoners demanded medical care due to various ailments but the Administration was not responsive to their queries leading the death of the 529 inmates. The Administration also said 6319 prisoners have filed their ...