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 ...

ESAT News (March 9, 2018) Ethiopian authorities deported a foreign correspondent for the Bloomberg News and The Guardian. British journalist William Davidson was based in Ethiopia since 2010. He said in his Facebook post that authorities have refused to renew his accreditation despite his attempt to use his connections in higher offices to renew his permit. Some criticize the journalist ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 9, 2018) Ethiopian regime security detained a prominent blogger and university professor on the day U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson was in the capital Addis Ababa and had commended the release of political prisoners last month. Seyoum Teshome is known for his sharp wit and criticism against a repressive regime that has no ...

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 ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 7, 2018) Five officials of the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO) have reportedly been imprisoned by the Command Post, which has been given the power to execute the state of emergency declared on February 16, 2018. Their arrest and detention violates their immunity as members of the regional administrative council. They were accused of ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 7, 2018) Ethiopia’s ruling coalition will meet on Sunday to elect its chairman, who will, by default, be annointed Prime Minister. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic (EPRDF), made up of four parties formed along ethnic lines, is considered by critics and the opposition as a quasi coalition since it is run behind the scene ...