ESAT News (June 28, 2017) Malawian police say they have arrested 26 Ethiopians for illegal entry into the country. Police, following tip-off, chased a vehicle carrying the Ethiopians and arrested them, according to a report by Nyasa Times of Malawi. Karonga police deputy spokesperson George Mlewa confirmed to the newspaper that they swooped on the vehicle and arrested the Ethiopians. ...

ESAT News (June 27, 2017) Over 1000 civic societies were forced to shut down following the 2009 Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSP), a law which among others restricts NGOs that receive more than 10% of their financing from foreign sources from engaging in human rights and advocacy activities. The Ethiopian regime came up with the restrictive law after a landslide ...

ESAT News (June 27, 2017) Ethiopians, who wish to leave Saudi Arabia in line with the Kingdom’s amnesty for undocumented workers, have called for their government to speed up their departure. The Ethiopians who are stranded at Saudi airports speaking to ESAT said they have bought their tickets from the Ethiopian Airlines but were unable to board their planes due ...

ESAT News (June 26, 2017) Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia face monetary penalty and imprisonment as the Kingdom’s amnesty for undocumented workers expired on June 25. Ethiopian government spokesperson, Negere Lencho told local media that of the 85,000 who took travel documents, only about 35,000 have returned home. It is estimated that about 700,000 Ethiopians live in ...

ESAT News (June 26, 2017) A humanitarian agency says 67 children have died of acute malnutrition in the Somali region of Ethiopia in the month of June alone, warning that an acute humanitarian emergency is unfolding in Doolo zone, as malnutrition reaches alarming levels. The number of affected children is tenfold compared to the same year last year. “The numbers ...

ESAT News (June 23, 2017) A prominent Ethiopian businessman says ruling party conglomerates and businesses run under the guise of private ownership but actually belong to the ruling party have negatively impacted fair competition and are taking unfair advantages. Eyesuswork Zafu, the former president of the Ethiopia and Addis Ababa Chambers of Commerce, was speaking at a government sponsored forum ...

ESAT News (June 23, 2017) Yemi Hailemariam, partner of Andargachew (Andy) Tsege, an Ethiopian born British father of three in death row in Ethiopia, wrote a letter to U.K’s Prime Minister asking the government to negotiate his release. Today marks three years since British Father Andy Tsege was first illegally kidnapped from an international airport in Yemen and rendered to ...

ESAT News (June 22, 2017) Aid agencies warn on Thursday that Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid for the nearly 8 million people who rely on handouts just to survive. The country director of Save the Children says food pipeline is breaking and donors do not know what happens when food runs out next month. “We’re looking at ...

ESAT News (June 22, 2017) Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, threatens to shut down its operations in Ethiopia demanding authorities to reverse decisions that some of the cement production would be transferred to youth cooperatives. The Ethiopian regime has recently decided to give some of the cement production operations to youth associations in an attempt to calm the growing protest ...

ESAT News (June 21, 2017) The Ethiopian Advocacy Network (EAN) said it has submitted a letter to the 35th Session of the UN Human Rights Council urging members to support a draft resolution which, among others, condemn human rights violations, extrajudicial killings and use of the anti-terror as well as the charities and societies proclamation to attack civic society and ...