by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 12, 2018) There are reports of confrontations among the youth in some quarters of the capital today over the display of flags ahead of the return of the leaders of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) from exile on Saturday. Photos and video sent to ESAT show what appeared to be a flash demonstration of ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 10, 2018) Returning home from exile after 11 years, the leader of Patriotic Ginbot 7 said the country should give priority to stability, maintaining reforms and building institutions necessary for the functioning of a democratic process. Speaking to thousands of supporters and residents of the capital Addis Ababa who came out to welcome the ...

ESAT News (August 31, 2018) The crime prevention unit of the capital’s police said it has arrested 108 people that it said have been involved in looting private and public properties as well as in the illegal movement of hard currencies in Addis Ababa. Police have also seized weapons and motor bikes that the suspects allegedly used in the crime, ...

ESAT News (July 17, 2018) Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today that preparations were underway to make use of the Eritrean port of Assab. The thawing of diplomatic relations in recent month has opened doors for economic cooperation between the two East African countries that were in a no war no peace situation for two decades. Leaders of the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (July 16, 2018) Eritrea reopened its Embassy in Addis Ababa, two decades after the compound near the soccer stadium in the capital was deserted by the Eritreans and was used for unspecified purposes by the Ethiopian government. The flag raising ceremony at the Embassy came at the conclusion of a three day visit by Eritrean ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (July 12, 2018) Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki will visit Ethiopia on Saturday, a week after Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed paid a landmark visit to Asmara. It will be the first visit by Afwerki to Ethiopia in 25 years; and 20 years after a border war between the two countries led to diplomatic and economic ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (July 11, 2018) Ethiopian Airlines will make its first flight to Asmara, Eritrea, on Wednesday July 18, twenty years after the African giant carrier ceased to fly to its northern neighbor. Fitsum Arega, Chief of Staff for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed made the announcement in a tweet saying holders of Ethiopian and Eritrean passports ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 23, 2008) One person was killed and 165 people were injured in Addis Ababa when a grenade was thrown at a crowd near a stage where Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other dignitaries were sitting to address a rally that was held in support of the new Premier. According to a statement by ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 13, 2018) A bank robbery in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa went on the blink when a driver carrying the alleged crooks drove on the wrong way and hit another vehicle. The robbers tried to runaway after the crash but were caught by passersby, who thought it was just a case of a hit and ...

ESAT News (may 18, 2018) At least 3,000 residents of Addis Ababa have been left homeless as their houses were demolished to provide land for investors. Authorities say the houses were built illegally. But residents of a subdivision in the capital locally known as Hanna Mariam have protested the move by authorities saying they had legally built their houses and ...