by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 28, 2018) Ethiopian federal prosecutors today charged five individuals with planning, coordinating and executing an assassination attempt on the life of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at a rally on June 23, organized to show support for the reformist Premier. Getu Girma, Birhanu Jafar, Tilahun Getachew, Bahiru Tolosa and Dessalegn Tesfaye were charged with terrorism, ...

  ESAT News (September 18, 2018) Ethiopia and Eritrea signed an agreement in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to reaffirm their declaration made in July for peace and friendship. “The state of war between the two countries has ended and a new era of peace, friendship and comprehensive cooperation has started,” the agreement that was made public today and signed by Ethiopia’s ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 18, 2018) Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who visited residents displaced by the weekend deadly violence outside Addis Ababa pledged to bring perpetrators of the killings to justice. The Premier went to the Medhanialem School today where hundreds of people took shelter fleeing their homes in Burayu, where a group carried out a deadly attack ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 13, 2018) Two congressmen known for their support for campaigning for the respect of human rights in Ethiopia said they commend the progress and great strides Ethiopia has made in the last few months with the leadership of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. At a hearing titled ““Reviewing Current Developments in Ethiopia,” Representative Chris Smith, ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 11, 2018) Leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea spent New Year’s day in the border towns of Bure and Zalambessa, two places that have seen the brunt of a two year trench warfare in 1998-2000. Ethiopia’s young and reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki have officially reopened roads linking the two ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 9, 2018) Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, says he hopes the new Ethiopian year will be a year of forgiveness, reconciliation, and love. Speaking in Addis Ababa on the eve of the Ethiopian New Year today, Dr. Ahmed called on Ethiopians to work together to bring about tangible political and economic changes in ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 6, 2018) Ethiopia has reopened its Embassy in Eritrea, after twenty years hiatus sparked by a border war. The thawing of diplomatic relations between the two countries began in July when Ethiopia’s Prime Minister made a historic visit to Eritrea after he announced that his country had accepted a boundary commission decision to resolve ...

ESAT News (September 6, 2018) A tripartite declaration has been signed in Asmara today by leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia to strengthen economic, security and political cooperation in the Horn of Africa. A statement issued by Eritrea’s Ministry of Information said considering the three countries share common “geography, history, culture and religion as well as vital common interests,” they ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 3, 2018) Tamagne Beyene, Ethiopia’s leading rights activist, returned home after two decades in exile in the United States. Mr. Beyene has been a vocal critic of the ethnic oriented and divisive rule by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an ethnic oligarchy that controlled political power with an iron fist for over a ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (August 31, 2018) Ethiopia’s mainstream Oromo political parties are reportedly mulling over the possibility of merger as constituents continue pressuring for the formation of a united Oromo political party. Ibsa Negeo of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) said at a press conference yesterday that his party has been in discussions with the Oromo Federalist Congress ...