ESAT News (November 28, 2017) The Borena Zonal administration said in a letter to the prime minister and other government offices that regime’s army members had shot and killed three in a locality called Sodo in Dire district, while nineteen other were wounded. The letter published by several media outlets say the regime’s army had carried out the killings last ...

ESAT News (November 24, 2017) As search for soldiers who are said have deserted from the army in Southern Ethiopia continued, new reports indicate that one soldier was killed in a shootout between a commander and soldiers who were dispatched to search for the deserters. Thirty-eight soldiers with the 10th division of the army in southern Ethiopia disappeared Monday along ...

ESAT News (November 24, 2017) TPLF special forces that were deployed to Borbor, near Moyale, in the country’s southern border, have reportedly launched deadly attacks against locals killing at least 27 people. The TPLF forces have been accused of pitting ethnic Somalis against Oromos who share common resources in Southern Ethiopia. The forces have reportedly used a dispute over land ...

ESAT News (November 23, 2017) The International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, has admitted he did not raise the case of a British father on death row in Ethiopia at an official meeting with the Ethiopian Prime Minister earlier this month, according to Reprieve, an international human rights organization that is following the case. Asked directly about the case of Andargachew ...

ESAT News (November 23, 20-17) The Ethiopian regime has issued an international tender to buy about 70,000 tons of milling wheat, European traders said. The tender deadline is Dec. 5, according to UkrAgroConsult, a Ukrainian agricultural consulting company. The report said the country also made a major purchase of 400,000 tonnes of wheat in early November. Finance for the 70,000 ...

ESAT News (November 22, 2017) A federal police commander for the north west region of Ethiopia was killed Tuesday night in Bahir Dar. Commander Desalegn Lijalem was stabbed and killed by unknown assailants at his residence at about 11 pm yesterday, according to a source. Residents hold the commander responsible for the loss of lives in the anti-government protest in ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) Initial reports reaching ESAT say unknown number of soldiers with the 10th division of the Ethiopian regime’s army disappeared Monday along the country’s border with Kenya. A search is underway after the soldiers lost radio communication with their base in Southern Ethiopia, according to ESAT sources. A search in Borena and Yabello towns along the ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) People in Southern Ethiopia are protesting the regime for keeping them in poverty and political and economic marginalisation. They also reject a billionaire whom they said had extracted gold for over 20 years but did nothing for the community. Residents of the town of Dima followed the footsteps of those in Shakiso and Adola and ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) University students in the east, south and south west of Ethiopia continue to leave their campuses en mass protesting the intervention of the regime in their academic as well as daily lives. Students of Haromaya University in Eastern Ethiopia have reportedly left their campus today after their demands to the school administration fell on deaf ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) A Somali parliamentary inquiry found that the rendition to Ethiopia of a leader of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) in August was unlawful. The Parliament also declared that the ONLF is not a “terrorist” organization. The Ethiopian regime, which declared ONLF a terrorist organization, had sent its security forces to Mogadishu in August and ...