ESAT News (September 12, 2018) 1.4 million new internal displacements have already been recorded in Ethiopia, surpassing both Syria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, says the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). “IDMC’s mid-year report shines light on Ethiopia, where new conflict broke out in Gedeo and West Guji zones in the south of the country earlier this year, ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 11, 2018) Leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea spent New Year’s day in the border towns of Bure and Zalambessa, two places that have seen the brunt of a two year trench warfare in 1998-2000. Ethiopia’s young and reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki have officially reopened roads linking the two ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 9, 2018) Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, says he hopes the new Ethiopian year will be a year of forgiveness, reconciliation, and love. Speaking in Addis Ababa on the eve of the Ethiopian New Year today, Dr. Ahmed called on Ethiopians to work together to bring about tangible political and economic changes in ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 10, 2018) Returning home from exile after 11 years, the leader of Patriotic Ginbot 7 said the country should give priority to stability, maintaining reforms and building institutions necessary for the functioning of a democratic process. Speaking to thousands of supporters and residents of the capital Addis Ababa who came out to welcome the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 7, 2018) Federal police investigating the killing of an engineer for Ethiopia’s corruption tainted hydro electric dam said he committed suicide. Simegnew Bekele was found dead on July 26, 2018 in his car parked at the central Meskel Square in Addis Ababa with a pistol on his side. Federal Police Commissioner, Zeinu Jemal, told ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 6, 2018) Ethiopia has reopened its Embassy in Eritrea, after twenty years hiatus sparked by a border war. The thawing of diplomatic relations between the two countries began in July when Ethiopia’s Prime Minister made a historic visit to Eritrea after he announced that his country had accepted a boundary commission decision to resolve ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 6, 2018) Djibouti has agreed to Ethiopia’s proposal to end its dispute with neighboring Eritrea over a territory on the Red Sea. The breakthrough has come after the leaders of Somalia and Ethiopia met Eritrea’s leader Isaias Afwerki in Asmara yesterday and the foreign ministers of the two countries met Djiboutian leaders today. According ...

ESAT News (September 6, 2018) A tripartite declaration has been signed in Asmara today by leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia to strengthen economic, security and political cooperation in the Horn of Africa. A statement issued by Eritrea’s Ministry of Information said considering the three countries share common “geography, history, culture and religion as well as vital common interests,” they ...

ESAT News (September 5, 2018) Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed and Somalia president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, are in Eritrean capital Asmara for talks on tripartite issues. “The three leaders will hold a tripartite Summit this evening on enhancement of regional ties of friendship/partnership,” tweeted Yemane G. Meskel, Eritrea’s Minister of Information. Details of talks were however not revealed. Abiy Ahmed ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 4, 2018) Ethiopia’s Ministry of Defense has sent 13 generals to retirement in a letter signed by Chief of Staff, Seare Mekonnen. It was the first time for members of the top brass to retire in such large numbers. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had said in July that there would be reform measures to ...