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 ...
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Ethiopia suffers dramatic decline of internet freedom
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 ...
Read More »Ethiopia: Group says leaked security doc shows regime on brink of collapse
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 ...
Read More »Herman Cohen says U.S., Ethiopia should lead efforts to lift UN embargo on Eritrea
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 ...
Read More »Ethiopian regime says genocide has been committed; holds Egypt, Eritrea responsible for unrest
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 ...
Read More »Italian court gives prison terms to Mayor and aides for refusing to remove Graziani mausoleum
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 ...
Read More »Ethiopia: Chinese factory, several buildings set ablaze as protest against TPLF continues
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 ...
Read More »Ethiopia: Spy agency use UN budget, vehicles to persecute dissidents
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 ...
Read More »Dutch prosecutors demand life in prison for Ethiopian war crimes suspect
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 ...
Read More »Probe finds $100bn embezzled in Saudi Arabia
ESAT News (November 9, 2017) Saudi Arabia’s attorney general says at least $100bn has been embezzled through systemic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades. The BBC report quoted Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb, the attorney general as saying that 199 people were being held for questioning as part of a sweeping anti-corruption drive that began on Saturday night. The attorney general did ...
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