ESAT News (September 19, 2017) The Human Rights Watch said it found evidence that security forces of the regime “not only triggered the stampede that caused many deaths but subsequently shot and killed some members of the crowd.” In a report released today in connection with the one year anniversary of the death of hundreds of festival goers in Bishoftu, ...

ESAT News (September 18, 2017) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said today that unless there is opening up of the political space in Ethiopia, the country is doomed to fail. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein was speaking in Washington, DC to members of the press and the human rights community, where he recalled that his team of human rights ...

ESAT News (September 15, 2017) A court in Kenya ordered the repatriation of about 40 Ethiopians who were in the country illegally. Kenyan media reported that the Ethiopians will be repatriated after completing a one month prison sentence or pay a fine of 800,000 Kenyan shillings. Sixty-seven Ethiopians were brought to court today and pleaded guilty for violating the immigration ...

ESAT News (September 15, 2017) Thousands of people are being displaced from the Somali region in Eastern Ethiopia, a region that has seen deadly violence this week. Locals blame the TPLF regime for igniting the killings in arming both the Somali Liyou Police and Oromo militias. There has been a lull in the killings today but ESAT sources say thousands ...

ESAT News (September 14, 2017) A landfill landslide in the outskirt of the capital Addis Ababa on Thursday killed at least one person. A witness told ESAT that up to four people are feared dead and several others wounded when the pile of trash collapsed for the second time in a year. In March over 130 people were killed and ...

ESAT News (September 14, 2017) Officials of the Oromo and Somali regional administrations traded accusations and counter accusations amid the death of scores of people on both sides in a new wave of violence. The Somali administration said in a statement that in Aweday town alone, a commercial hub in Eastern Ethiopia, over 50 Somalis were killed in the last ...

ESAT News (September 14, 2017) The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has built “clandestine eavesdropping outposts designed to listen in on the communications of Ethiopians and their neighbors across the Horn of Africa in the name of counterterrorism,” according to an investigative report by The Intercept, a news organization that covers national security, international affairs, technology and criminal justice among ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) Kenyan police say they have arrested 60 Ethiopian immigrants from a residential estate in Nairobi. According to a report by the Xinhua News Agency, Kenyan security officers said the Ethiopians were found hiding in a house at Mihang’o area in Kayole, east of capital city. The report said the Ethiopians were being fed with bread ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) At least a dozen of people have reportedly been killed in Eastern Ethiopia as violence continues on Wednesday and hundreds of Oromos forced to leave the Somali region. Deder and Aweday are two towns that have seen the deadliest so far since new waves of violence began on Monday following an ongoing border dispute between ...

ESAT News (September 13, 2017) Somalis residing in U.K. held a protest rally at the Ethiopian Embassy in London to express their anger against the extradition of a leading member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). Somalia last week handed over Abdikarin Sheikh Muse to Ethiopia. The extradition of Sheik Muse sparked uproar among the Somali community at home ...