by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 27, 2018) Four local officials from Benishangul Gumuz region in Western Ethiopia were killed in an ambush in Wellega, Oromo region. The officials were on their way back to Kemash Zone from a security meeting in Wellega when they were attacked by unidentified gunmen in Gimbi, West Wellega, the report by the Ethiopian Television ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 26, 2018) Ahead of the celebration of Meskel, the founding of The True Cross tomorrow, followers of the Ethiopian and Eritrean orthodox churches lit bonfires at dusk today. But the bonfire, the Demera as it is called, is more of a national festival, not just limited to followers of the church. In Ethiopia’s capital ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 26, 2018) The United Nations Secretary General says he was hopeful that peace efforts in the Horn of Africa would continue to be consolidated so that the people in the region would turn the page on war and conflict. Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Antonio Guterres, who described today’s world ...

ESAT News (September 25, 2018) A rights watchdog has called for the release of detainees that were arrested en mass last week in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Amnesty International was responding to Addis Ababa’s police commissioner Major General Degefe Bede was said yesterday that thousands were detained in a campaign of arrests by his policemen while 1,200 were sent to ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 25, 2018) A statement today by Oromo political fronts labeling other groups as enemies of the people of Oromo and claiming exclusive rights to places like Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa was reckless and destructive to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s all inclusive political reform process, says a researcher and writer on Ethiopian politics. “The statement ...

ESAT News (September 24, 2018) Security forces killed five people in Gambella, western Ethiopia in a protest demonstration by residents demanding the removal of the regional president, Gatluak Tut. Residents say the political reform reform measures at the federal level has not trickled down to their region, and hence demand changes in the local government. Federal police and defense forces ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 24, 2018) Police announced new figures in death toll in deadly violence in Addis Ababa as they carried out mass arrests over the weekend. Police said the arrests were made to fight growing crimes and lawlessness in the capital but the presence of supporters and members of opposition parties among the detainees and the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 21, 2018) Feyisa Lilesa, an athlete who used an Olympic platform to expose the plight of his countrymen under a brutal regime, will return home on Sunday after two years in exile. Lilesa crossed his forearms over his head in the finishing lines of the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he won silver, to be ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 21, 2018) Over 200 suspects of ethnic attack perpetrated last weekend outside Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa have been arraigned today before the 19th bench of the federal high court. The defendants were accused of planning and coordinating the attacks in Burayu and other districts in the outskirts of the capital where at least 58 ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 20, 2018) Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians has so far raised close to 250,000 U.S. dollars in two days to help compatriots displaced due to recent ethnic attack in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. The gofundme fundraising launched yesterday has gotten quick response from Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia in ...