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 (September 3, 2018) Hundreds of soldiers for Patriotic Ginbot 7, an armed group that was based in Eritrea, have returned home in the last few days. The move follows a decision by Patriotic Ginbot 7 to lay down arms and carry out a peaceful political struggle after a call by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to all opposition groups, ...

ESAT News (May 29, 2018) Ethiopian regime prosecutors announced today that they had dropped charges to independent media outlets abroad and two individuals. Prosecutors in February 2017 brought charges against two media outlets based abroad, Ethiopian Satellite Radio and Television (ESAT) and the Oromo Media Network (OMN). According to prosecutors, all the accused were involved in “attempts to overthrow the ...

ESAT News (December 13, 2017) The coalition, Ethiopian National Movement (ENM), today urged all stakeholders to work towards the establishment of a transitional government of national unity in a bid to save Ethiopia from slipping into an instability of regional and global consequences. Leaders of the ENM, who presented their “program of transition towards a sustainable democratic order in Ethiopia” ...

ESAT News (May 30, 2016) Chairman of the Patriotic Ginbot 7 Movement for Unity and Democracy, Prof. Berhanu Nega, reiterated that armed operations by his Movement is not along the border with Eritrea as the regime in Addis Ababa would like the people to believe, but is inside the heartland as has been seen in the recent fight with regime ...