ESAT News (May 3, 2018) An Ethiopian housemaid in Beirut, Lebanon, was viciously attacked and left on the streets to die until a good samaritan contacted authorities who took her to a hospital. Awi Gudeta had been in Beirut for ten months as a housemaid but her employer has never paid her salary. She said she was beaten by her ...

ESAT News (May 2, 2018) Hundreds of Amharas who have been displaced from Benishangul Gumuz region have come to the city of Bahir Dar demanding the Amhara regional government to resettle them back to their birth places. The displaced say they escaped an attack by Gumuz. Most of the 527 people displaced over the past few days live on the ...

ESAT News (May 2, 2018) People living near a gold mine in Southern Ethiopia have continued protest demonstrations for the third day against the extension of contracts for MIDROC Gold, a company that has been extracting gold for the last two decades. Residents say chemicals released from the gold mine have posed health hazards and are responsible for many ailments ...

ESAT News (May 1, 2018) Residents living near a gold mine in Southern Ethiopia took to the streets for the second day in protest against the extension of a contract for MIDROC mining company for another ten years. The residents say the dangerous chemicals released from the mining project, which has been going on for twenty years, has resulted in ...

ESAT News (May 1, 2018) Ethiopia and Sudan have reportedly agreed to set up a joint military force to protect Ethiopia’s mega hydroelectric dam which Egypt fears will cut into its water supply. Negotiations over the share of the water among the three countries have failed last month. While Egypt is wary of the consequence of the dam on downstream ...

ESAT News (April 27, 2018) Dwindling imports of wheat has resulted in scarcity of bread in the capital Addis Ababa and the price of a loaf of the staple has doubled. Authorities say the crisis was a result of the foreign currency crunch facing the country. Long lines at bakeries in the capital is a regular scene and owners of ...

ESAT News (April 26, 2018) Students of Ambo University held protest demonstrations demanding the revocation of the state of emergency and the release of fellow students imprisoned due to the martial law. The students ignored the state of emergency that prohibit any gatherings and took to the streets to stage protest demonstrations. The students have also demanded the security forces ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (April 26, 2018) Members of the opposition and journalists who were recently released from prison had held talks with UN human rights chief and gave firsthand account of the human rights violations in the country. Ethiopian authorities allow UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, to take a closer look at the ...

ESAT News (April 24, 2018) Long queues at gas stations and disruption of public transportations hit cities in the Amhara region as provisions of fuel has dwindled in recent weeks. Gondar, Bahir Dar, Debre Tabor, Woldia and Debre Markos are some of the cities where public transportations has been disrupted. Customers who tried to fill up their jerrycans in a ...

ESAT News ( April 24, 2018) A crisis smouldering in Ethiopia’s Eastern Somali region might have gotten more fuel from the formation of a new cabinet by the regional president, Abdi Illey. His security forces have reportedly detained over a hundred people in the last few days. Abdi fired his deputy, Abdihakim Igal, sparking street protests in Shilille, his constituent ...