by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (April 16, 2019) A spat between two inmates at the Gambella prison in western Ethiopia led to a brawl between two clan groups, offering a rare chance for 92 inmates to escape. Local media reports said the prison had few police officers who were busy breaking up the fight, which gave an opportunity for 92 ...

ESAT News (September 24, 2018) Security forces killed five people in Gambella, western Ethiopia in a protest demonstration by residents demanding the removal of the regional president, Gatluak Tut. Residents say the political reform reform measures at the federal level has not trickled down to their region, and hence demand changes in the local government. Federal police and defense forces ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (May 18, 2018) Ethiopia is to issue citizenship to hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees in line with the government’s commitment to the New York Declaration. But the news does not bode well for the Anuak community in Gambella. There are about 485,000 south Sudanese refugees in Gambella, the largest number of refugees in ...

    “Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas” to be screened tonight in DC By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 8, 2018) “Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas,” a documentary film on land grab in Ethiopia will be screened for the second time in Washington, DC tonight. The investigative documentary particularly focuses on land grabbing in the fertile Gambella region of Ethiopia ...

ESAT News (January 9, 2018) A South Sudanese General was arrested by Ethiopian authorities after he entered Ethiopia illegally, Radio Tamazuj quoted a senior official loyal to Taban Deng as saying. The radio report said David Dang Kong, head of the SPLM-IO office for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia said today that Brigadier General Mun Gach Thoch was arrested at ...

ESAT News (September 22, 2017) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday that the number of refugees who had fled renewed conflict in South Sudan since September 2016 topped 100,000. The refugees from the world’s youngest nation are being assisted in Ethiopia. According to a statement from IOM, since ...