ESAT News (February 12, 2018) Towns across the Oromo region today saw the beginning of a three day stay-at-home protest to pressure the regime to release political prisoners. Residents of several towns took part in the strike to also demand that Agazi forces leave their villages.   Shashemene, Bale, Woliso, Metu, Bishoftu, Alemgena, Harar and 20 districts in Eastern Hararghe ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 12, 2018) Four people, including a local police officer, were killed on Sunday when TPLF Agazi soldiers opened fire at a camp sheltering Internally Displaced People in Hamaressa town in Eastern Ethiopia. Media controlled by the TPLF regime confirmed the death. A dozen people were also injured. The IDP camp holds some of the ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 9, 2018) Prison authorities have demanded that Eskinder Nega and Andualem Arage, two prominent prisoners among the hundreds who were “pardoned’ yesterday by the regime, to sign a document saying they were jailed because they were members of Patriotic Ginbot 7, an opposition group based abroad. Sources say the prisoners of conscience have refused ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 8, 2018) The dictatorship in Ethiopia has continued to respond, albeit rather slowly , to public pressure and pressure from the international community that the thousands of incarcerated dissidents be freed. Media controlled by the regime today reported that the prosecutor general has announced 746 political prisoners have been “pardoned” and would be released ...

ESAT News (February 7, 2017) Ethiopian activists in the Diaspora today held a one day social media campaign to encourage compatriots continue the embargo on remittances send to the country. Organizers of the campaign believe remittance was one of the ways the regime sustains itself to cling to power. The hashtag motto “StarveTheTPLFBeast” was being widely shared on Facebook and ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 7, 2018) A faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a regime ruling Ethiopia with an iron fist, has decided to depose Chief of Staff Samora Yunis, according to ESAT sources. The faction led by Sebehat Nega that came out triumphant after a marathon of meetings and infighting within the TPLF has reportedly ...

ESAT News (February 5, 2018) A court in Addis Ababa sentenced a prominent opposition figure, Bekele Gerba, Secretary General for the Oromo Federalist Congress and his colleagues for an extra six months for what it called contempt of court during the proceedings on Monday. According to witnesses who attended today’s proceedings, the judge demand that defendants rise to hear the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 2, 2017) The United States on Wednesday gave a 28 day ultimatum to the Ethiopian regime to announce its consent to allow rapporteurs for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights investigate human rights violations in the country. House majority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R) said he communicated to the Ethiopian regime that ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 31, 2018) Soldiers for the TPLF regime known as Agazi have arrested hundreds of youth in Woldia and Mersa towns in Northern Ethiopia. The towns have recently been hit by anti-regime protests and TPLF soldiers responded killing dozens of people in Woldia, Mersa, Sirinka, Kobo towns and other nearby localities. ESAT sources said that ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 31, 2018) Reports coming out of Saudi Arabia say Ethiopian born Saudi billionaire, Mohammed Al-Amoudi, has refused to hand over his money in return for his release. The billionaire and 200 other businessmen and ministers were arrested early in November in the Kingdom’s crackdown against corruption. The Middle East Monitor reported quoting a Saudi ...