by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2017) Reports reaching ESAT say a marathon meeting by the central and executive committees of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) continues in Mekelle despite a deadlock. Increasing number of members of the central committee are also walking out of the crisis meeting, according to ESAT sources. Azeb Mesfin, the widow of Meles ...

ESAT News (November 15, 2017) Ethiopian regime security allow groups opposing the Eritrean government to rally in the capital Addis Ababa despite a ban on protests to Ethiopians. The over 200 protesters marched to the headquarters of the African Union to vent their anger against their government back home. Ethiopians are not allowed to hold protest rallies as the regime ...

ESAT News (November 15, 2017) Ethiopia has suffered a dramatic decline of internet freedom over the past year, according to an annual report by Freedom House. The report said Internet and mobile phone networks were deliberately disrupted during anti government protests and student exams; social media and communications platforms were periodically blocked throughout the year. Self-censorship heightened following the state ...

ESAT News (November 14, 2017) Patriotic Ginbot 7, an armed opposition to the Ethiopian regime, said a security plan of action document leaked yesterday to the media shows the regime in Ethiopia is teetering on the brink. A leaked security document first published by the Addis Standard on Monday blames Patriotic Ginbot 7 and OLF for the unrest in the ...

ESAT News (November, 14, 2017) The United States and Ethiopia should jointly sponsor a Security Council resolution to lift arms embargo imposed on Eritrea in 2009, according to a former U.S Ambassador for Africa and a former Assistant Secretary of State. “In view of UN report clearing #Eritrea of all charges related to al-Shebab, US and #Ethiopia should jointly sponsor ...

ESAT News (November 13, 2017) The Ethiopian regime blames neighboring Eritrea and Egypt for the unrest in the country. The regime also said a genocide has been committed in the recent ethnic violence in the Eastern part of the country along the border between the Somali and Oromo communities. A security plan of action document presented at the national security ...

ESAT News (November 10, 2017) An Italian court sentenced a Mayor of a city and his aides to prison terms ranging from 6 to 8 months for refusing to remove a mausoleum for Rodolfo Graziani, a fascist Italian military officer responsible for the massacre of upto a million Ethiopians and destruction of thousands of churches and homes. Mayor of the ...

ESAT News (November 10, 2017) Protests continued against the TPLF regime in East and West Shewa as several buildings were reduced to rubble. In Minjar Shenkora, North Shewa, protesters burnt a Chineses chipwood factory and disrupted a meeting by regime officials. Protesters in Chefe Donso, in East Shewa set ablaze courts, government offices, as well as the town’s municipality and ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 9, 2017) The Information Network Security Agency (INSA), Ethiopia’s spy agency, is using UN budgets and vehicles with UN tags to conduct surveillance, intimidation, arrest and to even carry out executions of dissidents in Ethiopia, according to well placed ESAT sources. The UNHCR and the Ethiopian regime have a joint programme called the Administration ...

ESAT News (November 9, 2017) I what is being described as a rare move in justice in The Hague, prosecutors demand that an Ethiopian man suspected of “war crimes” in the 1970’s “Red Terror” in Ethiopia be jailed for life. According to the AFP report, Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday called for, Eshetu Alemu, 63, a Dutch-Ethiopian national to be jailed ...