by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 5, 2018) Ethiopians living in the DC metropolitan area have come out in huge numbers and flocked at the U.S. Department of State and Congress to denounce the state of emergency declared in their home country and urge the United States to dissociate itself from a brutal regime. The demonstrators have also submitted a ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 5, 2018) Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of the 48 district of California and a critic of the Ethiopian regime said the state of emergency had “failed” at the Ethiopian Parliament. Rohrabacher said in a tweet on Sunday that the 346 votes in favor of passing the martial law fell short of the 359 minimum two-third ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 5, 2018) Towns in the restive Oromo region of Ethiopia has continued to defy a state of emergency declared in mid-February as a three-day “stay-at-home” strike began on Monday. The new wave of strikes in some parts the Oromo region had actually began last Friday when Parliament ratified the decree. The vote tally at ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 3, 2018) Residents of towns in the Oromo region used rocks and burning tires to block roads and shut down transportations and businesses as soon as Ethiopia’s Parliament on Friday ratified, in a controversial tally of votes, a six-month state of emergency that gives absolute power to the military. Agazi soldiers of the regime ...

U.S. Secretary of State travels to Ethiopia amid political turmoil: State Department announces by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 1, 2018) U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, will travel to Ethiopia next week amid political crisis in the country as nationwide protests call for the demise of 27 years of dictatorship and as a rule by state of emergency decree ...

ESAT News (March 1, 2018) A delegate from the United States was told by TPLF officials that the state of emergency was necessary to “prevent a takeover of power by the military,” according to ESAT’s diplomatic sources. A diplomatic mission led by Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu was in Washington, DC few days before the declaration of the martial law on ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (ESAT News March 1, 2018) Corruption has continued to worsen in Ethiopia and the country still continues to be one of the ten African countries where illicit financial flows is rampant. According to the annual corruption perceptions index of 2017 recently released by Transparency International, Ethiopia is still one of the countries at the bottom ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 1, 2018) Ana Gomes, a Portuguese member of the European Parliament say the recent statement put out by the European Union regarding the state of emergency in Ethiopia was a “shame.” She called on the Parliament to bring the issue with the High Representative for Human Rights and take a position that respects the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 28, 2018) TPLF army generals as well security and intelligence personnel had visited houses of MPs from door to door, threatening members of Ethiopia’s rubber stamp parliament not to vote against the state of emergency declared on February 16, 2018. Members of Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives, who are in recess, are holding an ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 27, 2018) A statement issued today by the “Command Post”, the military and security committee overseeing a martial law declared in Ethiopia last week, says the military has been ordered to “take all measures necessary” against civilian protesters demanding political reforms. The statement specifically mentioned the renewed protest in the country’s Oromo region, where ...