ESAT News (July 7, 2017) The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) warned that prolonged drought drives a food security emergency in Somalia and Southeastern Ethiopia. The Network said in an alert on Thursday that a major food security emergency is expected to continue in the Horn of Africa into early 2018, following very poor performance of the March ...

ESAT News (July 7, 2017) A Federal High Court in Addis Ababa rejects request by Dr. Merera Gudina for his case to be seen separately from the bogus terrorism charges brought against two independent media abroad. The regime brought cooked up terrorism charges against Gudina and two media outlets abroad: the Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT) and the Oromo ...

ESAT News (July 6, 2017) Saudi Arabia on Thursday released 12 Ethiopians who were detained last week while on the annual hajj and umrah pilgrim in the Kingdom. The Muslim affairs Radio BBN reported that its sources confirmed the release of the Ethiopian Muslims who were arrested last Thursday. Those arrested include members of the Ethiopian Muslim Arbitration Committee who ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2017) The United Nations refugee agency has voiced concern after 17 newly-arrived Eritrean asylum-seekers in eastern Sudan were taken by smugglers from a refugee camp, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The UNHCR denied reports that they had been kidnapped, saying they appeared to have had a prior arrangement with the smugglers. But the agency says it ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2017) Three Kenyan police officers were dead and seven others were reported missing after a gunbattle with suspected Al-Shabaab militants, Kenyan media reported. According to a BBC report, the militants staged a dawn attack against a police post in an area called Lamu, near the country’s border with Somalia. Six police officers were also injured in ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2017) A leading voice of dissent against the Ethiopian tyrannical regime and a pro-democracy campaigner who lives in exile in U.K. was granted bail after Scotland Yard charged him with terrorism offenses. His case was declared not suitable for a magistrate and was sent to a jury trial. The charge against Tadesse Biru Kersmo include possession ...

ESAT News (July 4, 2017) Ethiopian regime prosecutors have filed charges against five artists and two others of terrorism for disseminating songs and information that they said were aimed at fomenting unrest among the Oromo community. The charge is not the first by a regime that uses its anti-terror proclamation to silence dissenting views and critics of the government including ...

ESAT News (July 4, 2017) An Ethiopian director for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Africa Bureau in Addis Ababa was accused of nepotism for hiring a daughter of a friend who is a member of the Ethiopian oligarchy. Tegegnework Gettu, regional director of the UNDP had hired Sallem Berhane in 2013 as an Individual Contract (IC) holder without ever ...

ESAT News (July 4, 2017) Somalia’s Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, announced on Monday that Ethiopia has agreed to hand over 120 Somali prisoners. The prime minister made the announcement in a tweet from Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa where he is attending an African Union Summit. ‘‘Ethiopia agreed to hand over 120 Somali prisoners in the framework of an agreement ...

ESAT News (July 4, 2017) The Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT) has urged its supporters and all freedom-loving Ethiopians to mobilize against the intensifying efforts by the TPLF-led regime to disrupt and interfere with its satellite and radio transmissions to Ethiopia. Abebe Gellaw, Executive Director of ESAT, said that a recent multi-million dollars deal by Eutelsat and the regime’s ...