By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 30, 2018) House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Chris Smith and Rep. Mike Coffman demanded that the Ethiopian regime should allow UN human rights rapporteurs to investigate human rights violations in the country. The call by the congressmen came at a meeting held between representatives of Ethiopian civic and political groups with majority leader ...

ESAT News (January 29, 2018) Protests have continued in towns in Northern Ethiopia where scores of people have been shot and killed by TPLF soldiers. The nearby town of Sirinka joined the anti-TPLF protest yesterday. Protesters torched cars and closed roads with rocks and logs. Some of the roads leading to the town of Mersa were closed. TPLF forces shot ...

ESAT News (January 29, 2018) Some 857,000 people had been displaced in Eastern Ethiopia as a result of  what a joint report by the regime’s disaster management and a UN humanitarian coordination offices called conflict between the Somali and Oromo communities. The figures released last week by the National Disaster Risk Management Commission and the UN Office for the Coordination ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 27, 2018) Protests against the TPLF regime continued for the third day in Kobo town, a bustling town in Northern Ethiopia, as people in the nearby town of Robit blocked roads preventing the progress of TPLF Agazi soldiers that killed at least nine protesters on Wednesday. A store for a local beer agent that ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 26, 2018) A deputy bishop for a diocese in Northern Ethiopia says he thinks the Epiphany day killings in Woldia town last week were premeditated.   The deputy bishop, Abun Ermias told Hara Tewahido, a religious website, that the office of the diocese has specifically informed the local authorities that security forces should not ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 25, 2018) Soldiers for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) that operate under the guise of the national army of Ethiopia shot and killed at least nine people in Kobo town, Northern Ethiopia. (TPLF soldiers entering Kobo town January 25, 2018) Residents of Kobo, a town sitting on one of the major routes to ...

ESAT News (January 24, 2018) Unidentified men have thrown a bomb into the Addis Zemen Hotel in Metema town, North Gondar injuring two individuals working for the regime’s intelligence and security. Three officials with the regional intelligence and security were holding a meeting when the grenade was thrown at about 8 pm Tuesday, according to ESAT sources. Sources said the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 24, 2018) One of the thirteen people shot and killed last Saturday by TPLF security forces on Epiphany day religious festival in Woldia, a town on a major transportation route in Northern Ethiopia, was shot five times. According to accounts of his brother who spoke to the BBC Amharic service in Addis Ababa, he ...

ESAT News (January 23, 2018) Reports reaching from Woldia show that tensions remained high in the town that has seen the killing of 13 people while celebrating the annual Epiphany celebrations this weekend. The weekly Tuesday market in the town was cancelled to mourn the deceased. In the nearby Hara town residents set a truck on fire and according to ...

ESAT News (January 23, 2018) TPLF security forces shot and killed three people in Alem Tena, East Shewa today while holding a sit in protest at a flagpole to mourn the death of protesters in Woldia and Moyale in the weekend. The deceased had lowered the flag to a half-mast to mourn the death of protesters this weekend. Security forces ...