by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 14, 2018) Blockade on the operation of fuel trucks that was called by the Qeerroo, a network of youth in the country’s Oromo region, has entered its second day resulting in shortages of fuel all across the country and skyrocketing prices of food and other goods. According to the Qeerroo, the blockade will remain ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 14, 2018) Ethiopian Ambassador to Sweden, Merga Bekana, has been summoned by the Swedish Foreign Ministry over a protracted trial of an Ethiopian-born Swedish cardiologist, Dr. Fikru Maru. One of Sweden’s top cardiologist, Fiku Maru established a cardiology hospital in Addis Ababa in 2007 to help his people. Dr. Maru has been in prison ...

ESAT News (March 14, 2018) About 8 million people need emergency food, cash or non-food assistance, Ethiopian regime and its humanitarian partners announced yesterday. The joint announcement made on ReliefWeb says the country needs US$1.66 billion to help 7.88 million people with emergency food or cash and non-food assistance, mainly in the southern and south-eastern parts of the country. “Continuing ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 13, 2018) Saturday’s killing of 11 people in Moyale town, Southern Ethiopia, was premeditated, the spokesperson for the regional justice bureau told the Amharic Service of Radio Deutsche Welle.   Head of communications with the Justice Bureau of the Oromo regional government, Taye Denda said the killings perpetrated by Agazi forces of the regime ...

Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 13, 2018) President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and is replacing him with Director of the CIA. The news came this morning in the form of the President’s tweet. Several media outlets quoted White House press secretary Sarah Sanders assaying that Trump asked Tillerson to step aside. “Mike Pompeo, Director of ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 12, 2018) The Qeerroo, a youth network in the Oromo region of Ethiopia, has banned fuel trucks from operating in the region for a week in protest against the ongoing killings of compatriots by soldiers of the regime. News of the call by Qeerroo to ban fuel truck operations sent drivers to form long ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 12, 2018) About fifty-thousand people are estimated to have fled the town of Moyale in Southern Ethiopia and crossed into Kenya after security force killed at least ten people on Saturday. One person was killed and another injured on Sunday, sources told ESAT. The Mayor of Moyale, Aschalew Yohannes, told the Deutsche Welle Amharic ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 10, 2018) Agazi soldiers of the TPLF regime killed at least 13 people in Moyale town, in the restive Oromo region of Southern Ethiopia. At least 25 others were wounded, according to a report by the Oromia Media Network (OMN). The death toll is feared to be higher. The killings came a day after ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 9, 2018) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s remark in Addis Ababa on Thursday that the resignation of a placeholder Prime Minister in Ethiopia was a “very powerful symbol to the strength of the democratic process,” draws surprise and disapproval. Tillerson also expressed his “concern” over the reimposition of the state of emergency “because it ...

    “Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas” to be screened tonight in DC By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 8, 2018) “Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas,” a documentary film on land grab in Ethiopia will be screened for the second time in Washington, DC tonight. The investigative documentary particularly focuses on land grabbing in the fertile Gambella region of Ethiopia ...