ESAT News (September 1, 2017) A 1.8 billion dollars is due this year to creditors but an empty coffer is worrying authorities in Addis Ababa who took 40 billion dollars in loans from various creditors. According to ESAT sources, it would be impossible to pay the amount due this year when the the country was able to generate only 2.9 ...

ESAT News (August 30, 2017) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) denounced the refoulement of Abdikarin Sheikh Muse, an executive committee member of the Front to Ethiopia. Mr. Sheik Muse, who lived in Mogadishu for three years, was detained by the regional security of the Galkacyo, Galmudug regional state in central Somalia on August 23, 2017, according to a press ...

ESAT News (August 28, 2017) The illegal dumping of toxic along Ethiopia’s road construction routes is resulting in higher rates of child mortality and increased rates of diseases associated with exposure to toxins, according to early research by economists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The researchers were able to link increased rates of ...

ESAT News (August 28, 2017) A former Guinean mining minister was sentenced to 7 years in jail for laundering 8.5 million dollars, money that he took as bribes from a Chinese mineral company. Mahmoud Thiam was convicted in May of taking illegal payments to help China International Fund Ltd. win exclusive rights to mine Guinea’s iron, gold, diamonds and bauxite ...

ESAT News (August 16, 2017) The legal director of an international advocacy group has said that Ethiopia’s political prisoners like journalist Eskinder Nega and Andualem Aragie are not terrorists but victims of “kangaroo courts” and unjust laws designed to criminalize fundamental rights. Kate Barth, Legal Director of Freedom Now and international advocate for Eskinder Nega and Andualem Aragie, told ESAT ...

ESAT News (August 15, 2017) A travel ban has been imposed on high level TPLF officials, family members and accomplices suspected of embezzlement as part of the ongoing campaign against corruption in Ethiopia which critics say has so far targeted small-time scoundrels and left top TPLF officials who are widely accused of pocketing millions of dollars untouchable. ESAT has obtained ...

ESAT News (August 14, 2017) Ethiopia called five ambassadors but its special envoy, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United States, Girma Birru may not return home at a time when the regime is cracking down on corruption and arresting officials suspected of high level embezzlement, according to ESAT’s sources who allege that the ambassador has a stake in a ...

ESAT News (September 15, 2016) Security forces in southern Ethiopia are forcing the displacement of Amharas in Konso, in what the locals said was a deliberate attempt by regime operatives to incite ethnic violence, according to ESAT’s sources. The displacement came as the people of Konso, who demanded self-administration, were also under attack by the forces. Unable to respond positively ...