by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2018) A former deputy head of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) was brought to a court in Addis Ababa today accused of corruption as well as torture and a range of human rights abuses against innocent citizens and suspects. Police told the court that Yared Zerihun, on orders of his former ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2018) A former head for the power and engineering department at the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), an industrial complex at the center of Ethiopia’s corruption scandal, has been arrested at his office in Addis Ababa, accused of wasting over $55.6M. According to charges read at a court in Addis Ababa today, Colonel ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 15, 2018) “Ethiopia should not be a country where some steal in millions of dollars while others scavenge for food in dumpsters,” Ethiopia’s Prime Minister said in his written statement today. Dr. Abiy Ahmed has vowed that his government would continue crackdown on officials suspected of corruption and human rights abuses. Scores of army ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 15, 2018) [Edited to correct errors in nick names] Ethiopia’s regiment commander in Somalia, Colonel Gebregziabher Alemseged “Gen. Gebre”, who was also a former political advisor for the Secretary General of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has been arrested, according to ESAT sources. He was reportedly sacked from his IGAD position last June. ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 14, 2018) A United Nations technical team is in Ethiopia discussing election laws and technicalities with leaders of political parties and community representatives, according to ESAT sources. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been funding Ethiopia’s past elections against international uproar that the elections were rigged by the TPLF regime. In the 2015 ...

  by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 14, 2018) The United Nations Security Council has today lifted a nine year old sanction on Eritrea in a unanimous vote. The arms embargo and other targeted sanction on Eritrea was imposed in 2009, accusing the East African country of aiding a Somali jihadist group, al-Shabaab. The sanction involves an arms embargo, travel ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 13, 2018) A retired army Major General who led the country’s military engineering and industrial complex for eight years has been arrested in Ethiopia’s border town of Humera as he tried to flee the country. Maj. Gen. Kinfe Dagnew has been arrested, picked up by a helicopter and flown into Addis Ababa soon after ...

  by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 12, 2018) Court warrants have been issued for the arrest of former CEO of the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), Maj. General Kinfe Dagnew and a former director general of the state owned sugar corporation, Abay Tsehaye, according to ESAT sources, who also revealed that the Tigray regional government has refused to handover ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 12, 2018) The general prosecutor said the former head of the National Intelligence and Security Services Agency was the person who coordinated the foiled assassination attempt against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June. Berhanu Tsegaye, the prosecutor general told a gaggle of reporters in Addis Ababa that his office and the police have done ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 10, 2018) The Reporter Newspaper published in Addis Ababa broke the news this morning of the arrest of over 40 officials of the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) and members of the Ethiopian security and intelligence. Established in 2010, METEC, the country’s military industrial complex, was run by army generals of the Tigray People’s ...