Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 20, 2019) The Ministry of Defense said Ethiopian troops had attacked al-Shabaab bases in Somalia and killed 66 militants a day after reports said the insurgent group claimed that it had killed several Ethiopian soldiers on Friday. The Ethiopian troops, who are in Somalia as part of the AMISOM mission, also destroyed 9 Land Cruisers ...

ESAT News (March 16, 2018) The crisis in Ethiopia is catching the headlines in Kenya media and analysts in the nightly television warn of the regional consequences if the country implodes. At least 40,000 Ethiopians fled to Kenya after the army killed a dozen people last Saturday in the border town of Moyale in what Ethiopian regime officials say was ...

ESAT News (March 15, 2018) The Kenya Red Cross said the number of people coming to the country seeking asylum has continued to increase after Ethiopian military killed 13 and injured dozens of people last Saturday in Moyale, a town bordering the two countries. The Kenya Red Cross announced in a press release that 8,500 people have arrived at Marsabit, ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 15, 2018) An official has been detained in Ethiopia for denouncing the regime and demanding justice for the killing of 13, maiming and displacement in Moyale town, in Southern Ethiopia. Taye Denda’a, communication head with the Oromia regional Justice Bureau is the sixth Oromo official to be detained by the regime for decrying the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 12, 2018) About fifty-thousand people are estimated to have fled the town of Moyale in Southern Ethiopia and crossed into Kenya after security force killed at least ten people on Saturday. One person was killed and another injured on Sunday, sources told ESAT. The Mayor of Moyale, Aschalew Yohannes, told the Deutsche Welle Amharic ...

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 6, 2017) Kenyan police said they have arrested 132 Ethiopian nationals whom they said have entered the country illegally The Xinhua report said the arrest was carried out in a security operation at a residential estate in Nairobi. The report quoted area police commander Joseph Gichangi as saying the Ethiopians had sneaked into the country from Moyale ...

ESAT News (October 10, 2017) Staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nairobi, Kenya have been accused by Ethiopian political refugees of demanding bribes and even sexual favors to facilitate their applications for refugee status. In a damning article published on The Star of Kenya, Ethiopian refugees gave accounts of how staff at the UNHCR office ...

ESAT News (September 21, 2017) Human Rights Watch said it has documented numerous cases of harassment and threats against Ethiopian asylum seekers in Kenya and elsewhere since 2010. Horn of Africa senior researcher for the watchdog group, Felix Horne, wrote in a report titled “The Long Arm of Ethiopia Reaches for Those Who Fled,” that Ethiopian asylum seekers were “assaulted, ...

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 ...