by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 2, 2018) Media controlled by the regime in Ethiopia have reported that the Parliament has passed the six-month state of emergency declared by the Council of Ministers on February 16, 2018. There are, however, uncertain and different figures reported as to how many of the members of Parliament voted in favor of passing the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 28, 2018) TPLF army generals as well security and intelligence personnel had visited houses of MPs from door to door, threatening members of Ethiopia’s rubber stamp parliament not to vote against the state of emergency declared on February 16, 2018. Members of Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives, who are in recess, are holding an ...

ESAT News (January 8, 2018) A member of the Ethiopian parliament says over 10,000 people were killed in and around the border regions of Oromo and Somali in a violence which a parliamentary report said was perpetrated by the Somali Region Special Police, local police and militia. Tesfaye Robela was challenging a parliamentary committee that was set up to look ...

ESAT News (December 20, 2017) Oromo and Amhara MPs representing the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO) and the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM) have boycotted the Ethiopian Parliament saying the Prime Minister need to address the ongoing ethnic clashes and political crisis in the country. The Parliament did not hold its regular session last Thursday and yesterday as the absence ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (October 12, 2017) Speaker of the Ethiopian parliament, Abadula Gemeda, who submitted his resignation last week has presided today over a regular session of the House of People’s Representatives. Gemeda’s announcement of resignation last week sparked speculations and debate whether the onetime defense minister and president of the Oromo region has real power to shake ...

ESAT News (October 9, 2017) News of the resignation of Abadula Gemeda, Speaker of the Ethiopian Parliament over the weekend and his brief televised statement on Sunday gave no clues as to the real reasons for his resignation. Seen as a rubber stamp speaker by many, but a force to be reckoned with by his supporters, the former defense minister ...