by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 8, 2018) Ethiopia’s President says despite positive changes in the country’s political landscape, rampant lawlessness has threatened the supremacy of the law. Mulatu Teshome said it would be the priority of his the government, at all levels, to ensure that justice prevails as the country makes political and economic reforms. Dr. Mulatu Teshome was ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 5, 2018) Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), re-elected the incumbent Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed as its chairman until the next Congress. The decision by the Congress of the four party coalition will, by default, allow Ahmed to continue in his position as the Prime Minister. The re-election of ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 4, 2018) There has been growing concern that soldiers for the separatist Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), that have recently returned to the country from neighboring countries, were still remained armed. Other armed groups that have returned to Ethiopia after peace overtures by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government have been disarmed and made to settle ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 4, 2018) A drunk federal police officer opened fire and killed two colleagues in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa in the subdivision of the city called Wollo Sefer. A petty spat turned deadly as the drunken police officer opened fire and killed two federal police officers. A team of other officers who arrived at the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 3, 2018) As a historic congress of Ethiopia’s ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) kicks of today in the Southern city of Hawassa, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who is also the coalition’s chairman said federalism was the way to go for Ethiopia considering historical and current realities in the country. Dr. ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 2, 2018) Administrators in three peripheral but pivotal regions in Ethiopia have been pushing against changes being made by a reformist Prime Minister; and the old guards in Gambella, Afar and Benishangul-Gumuz regions have continued to violet and repress the people in their regions, according to leading rights activists. Obang Metho, Director for the ...

ESAT News (October 2, 2018) Deadly ethnic violence in areas bordering the Oromo and Benishangul-Gumuz region in Western Ethiopia left at least 40 dead and displaced over 70,000 people. The violence was sparked last Wednesday when four officials from Kemashi Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz were killed in the Oromo region. The officials were killed on their way back from a joint ...

  ESAT News (October 1, 2018) At least 20 people have been killed and about 50,000 displaced over the weekend in areas bordering the Oromo and Benishangul Gumuz regions. The weekend violence followed the killing of four officials from Benishangul region in an ambush in the Oromo region on Wednesday. The officials were returning home from a joint security meeting ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 28, 2018) The Human Rights Council says the mass arrest carried out by police in Addis Ababa last week was unlawful. The Council said it was troubling that over 1,200 people were detained at a military camp without charges, while they should have been arraigned before the court in 24 hours of the arrest ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 28, 2018) Ethiopian federal prosecutors today charged five individuals with planning, coordinating and executing an assassination attempt on the life of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at a rally on June 23, organized to show support for the reformist Premier. Getu Girma, Birhanu Jafar, Tilahun Getachew, Bahiru Tolosa and Dessalegn Tesfaye were charged with terrorism, ...