by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 8, 2018) Residents of towns in Afar region took to the streets demanding the release of political prisoners and objecting interference by the neighboring Tigray region in the affairs of the Afaris. Video received by ESAT show police firing shots as demonstrators chant slogans denouncing the regional government. It was not clear if there ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 6, 2018) The meeting of the ruling EPRDF that decided to “fully accept” the ruling of the Ethiopian Eritrean Boundary Commission and the Algiers agreement yesterday, has also made a decision to open up key sectors of the economy that has so far been closed for private investors. The statement issued by the EPRDF ...

ESAT News (June 5, 2018) Ethiopia’s parliament, the House of People’s Representatives today lifted the state of emergency imposed in February. On Saturday, the cabinet of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent a draft law that lifts the State of Emergency to the Parliament for approval. Ethiopia imposed a state of emergency in February, the second martial law in two years, ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 5, 2018) Ethiopia said it would implement the Algiers peace agreement signed with Eritrea in December 2000 and “fully accept” the Ethiopian Eritrean Boundary Commission decision that came after a two year bloody war between the two neighboring countries. According to the national broadcaster, ETV, the executive committee of the ruling EPRDF has made the ...

ESAT News (June 4, 2018) Over fifty houses went up in smokes as clashes between the Guji and Gedeo communities in Southern Ethiopia resumed yesterday. The violence which has resumed after a month long lull has so far resulted in the death of over 200 people and the displacement of over 2,000 people. A recent assessment conducted by the UN ...

ESAT News (June 4, 2018) A report by the Financial Times says Chinese companies, which are the major investors in Ethiopia, are finding it difficult to get loans from their creditors to finance projects in the East African country. Chineses banks and credit insurance companies are worried about Ethiopia’s increasing debt and foreign currency crisis, according to the report. ESAT ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 2, 2018) The cabinet of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, also known as the Council of Ministers, has announced today that a state of emergency imposed in February would be lifted. The news comes in the form of a tweet by Fitsum Arega, the Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister, who wrote that the Council, ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 1, 2018) The governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has given illegal loan guarantees to the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT), a business conglomerate owned by the ruling TPLF. According to ESAT sources at the National Bank of Ethiopia, the Governor, Teklewold Atnafu, has given several guarantees of upto ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (June 1, 2018) Andargachew Tsege has been reunited with his family in London in an emotional welcome at the Heathrow Airport where Ethiopians came out in huge numbers to celebrate his release after four years of imprisonment. Upon arrival, Andy acknowledged Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for playing a key role to get him released. He ...

ESAT News (May 31, 2018) Amnesty International said today that the Ethiopian government must immediately withdraw and disband the Liyu police unit of the Somali regional state, whose members are unlawfully killing people in neighbouring Oromia region. “Members of the unit, set up by the Somali state as a counter-terrorism special force, this week burnt down 48 homes belonging to ...