by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 21, 2018) Over 200 suspects of ethnic attack perpetrated last weekend outside Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa have been arraigned today before the 19th bench of the federal high court. The defendants were accused of planning and coordinating the attacks in Burayu and other districts in the outskirts of the capital where at least 58 ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 20, 2018) Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians has so far raised close to 250,000 U.S. dollars in two days to help compatriots displaced due to recent ethnic attack in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. The gofundme fundraising launched yesterday has gotten quick response from Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia in ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 17, 2018) Victims of the weekend attack in Burayu, in the outskirt of the capital, recounted their agony to ESAT reporters in Addis Ababa saying they were beaten, their houses set ablaze and family members killed. A man said his father, sister and friends were all killed in the weekend attack. He said his ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 17, 2018) Federal police said at least 25 people were killed Saturday and Sunday in Burayu, 12 miles northwest of the capital Addis Ababa in an attack targeting ethnic groups, while police killed five people in the capital Addis Ababa in a demonstration called to denounce the weekend killings. Asked to confirm reports by ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 16, 2018) The last three days have seen bloody and deadly attacks in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa in what residents and social media activists described were ethnic motivated, with an Oromo youth group known as Qeerroo brutally attacking other groups. ESAT received several gruesome photos of bodies of people covered with ...