ESAT News (September 20, 2017) The spread of water hyacinth that has threatened the ecosystem of the country’s largest lake, Tana, is also spreading on the Abay River at an alarming rate. Experts say the water hyacinth has covered 25 hectares on the Abay River and locals blame federal authorities for not responding to the threat posed by the pollutant ...

ESAT News (September 18, 2017) Ethiopians in the metropolitan Washington, DC area and elsewhere took to the streets today in support of H. RES. 128, a human rights bill by the U.S. congress on Ethiopia. HR – 128 resolution, among others, calls for the Ethiopian regime to investigate the killings and excessive use of force against protesters in the Oromia ...

ESAT News (September 14, 2017) A landfill landslide in the outskirt of the capital Addis Ababa on Thursday killed at least one person. A witness told ESAT that up to four people are feared dead and several others wounded when the pile of trash collapsed for the second time in a year. In March over 130 people were killed and ...

ESAT News (September 14, 2017) Officials of the Oromo and Somali regional administrations traded accusations and counter accusations amid the death of scores of people on both sides in a new wave of violence. The Somali administration said in a statement that in Aweday town alone, a commercial hub in Eastern Ethiopia, over 50 Somalis were killed in the last ...

ESAT News (September 14, 2017) The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has built “clandestine eavesdropping outposts designed to listen in on the communications of Ethiopians and their neighbors across the Horn of Africa in the name of counterterrorism,” according to an investigative report by The Intercept, a news organization that covers national security, international affairs, technology and criminal justice among ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) Kenyan police say they have arrested 60 Ethiopian immigrants from a residential estate in Nairobi. According to a report by the Xinhua News Agency, Kenyan security officers said the Ethiopians were found hiding in a house at Mihang’o area in Kayole, east of capital city. The report said the Ethiopians were being fed with bread ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) At least a dozen of people have reportedly been killed in Eastern Ethiopia as violence continues on Wednesday and hundreds of Oromos forced to leave the Somali region. Deder and Aweday are two towns that have seen the deadliest so far since new waves of violence began on Monday following an ongoing border dispute between ...

ESAT News (September 7, 2017) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said an executive member of the Front, Abdikarin Sheikh Muse, who was handed over to Ethiopia last week was not a terrorist as described by the cabinet of the Somali government. Hassan Abdulahi, a senior member and spokesperson of the ONLF, was responding to statementents by the Somali government ...

ESAT News (September 4, 2017) Ethiopians took to the social media to express their anger over the cancellation Sunday of Teddy Afro’s album release party by authorities who have also banned his new year concert. Lyrics by Ethiopia’s king of reggae preaching unity and peaceful coexistence do not bode well for the ominous agenda of the ethnocentric regime that divide ...