by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 25, 2018) The anti-corruption commission for the Oromo regional administration says 79 officials have been arrested for their alleged involvement in massive embezzlement in the region that resulted in the loss of 71 million birr ($2.6M). The suspects include supervisors and managers for the regional saving and loans program, procurement office, roads authority and ...

ESAT News (August 21, 2018) Authorities in Ethiopia’s restive Oromo region have arrested 171 people accused of inciting deadly violence and ethnic motivated attacks in the region. Head of political affairs with the regional party, OPDO, Addisu Arega told local media that the suspects were arrested in several towns in the region accused of killings, inciting violence and looting. Among ...

ESAT News (May 31, 2018) Amnesty International said today that the Ethiopian government must immediately withdraw and disband the Liyu police unit of the Somali regional state, whose members are unlawfully killing people in neighbouring Oromia region. “Members of the unit, set up by the Somali state as a counter-terrorism special force, this week burnt down 48 homes belonging to ...

=========================================== by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 27, 2018) Ethiopia’s ruling coalition, EPRDF, elects Dr. Abiy Ahmed as the new chairman of the Front, according to the national broadaster, EBC. The election of Dr. Abiy Ahmed as chairman of the Front will by default make him the Prime Minister. He is expected to be officially ordained as the Prime Minister when ...

ESAT News (October 12, 2017) Security forces opened fire and killed six people in Borena, south Ethiopia, while 20 others were seriously injured as anti-government protests that began yesterday in the Oromo region continued today in various towns across the region. Witnesses told ESAT that a convoy of soldiers heading to the Somali region was confronted by residents of Dire ...

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 ...