ESAT News (January 29, 2018) Some 857,000 people had been displaced in Eastern Ethiopia as a result of  what a joint report by the regime’s disaster management and a UN humanitarian coordination offices called conflict between the Somali and Oromo communities. The figures released last week by the National Disaster Risk Management Commission and the UN Office for the Coordination ...

ESAT News (January 9, 2018) The announcement by Ethiopian regime authorities that they would investigate and crackdown on Qero, a network of youth in the country’s restive Oromo region that is behind the anti-TPLF protest for over two years, has drawn backlash from Oromo political leaders and activists. Reports show that the TPLF regime, through its security apparatus that is ...

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 (January 3, 2018) Protests have continued today in a number of towns and villages in the country’s Oromo region despite an announcement by the regime that some political prisoners would be freed. Tensions remained high in West Arsi and West Shewa with protesters denouncing the regime from Shashemene to Kofele and Arsi Kokosa. Clashes with security forces have ...

ESAT News (December 29, 2017) Four students were injured in Bule Hora University as anti-TPLF protesters clashed with regime supporters. Classes have been disrupted and the pro-TPLF students have reportedly left the campus. In the the town of Ambo, the epicenter of anti-TPLF protests, security forces arrested 50 students of Ambo University. Security forces accused that the students have coordinated ...

ESAT News (December 25, 2017) One of Ethiopia’s prisoners of conscience, Bekele Gerba, has been denied to see a doctor despite his repeated request to the prison administration. His daughter, Bontu Bekele, who told Deutsche Welle that her dad is suffering from hypertension said he is also suffering from other ailments and has been demanding prison administrators to see his ...

ESAT News (December 22, 2017) Local police force and militia in areas bordering the Somali and Oromo regions in Eastern Ethiopia have been ordered to stay away from the region. According to information obtained by ESAT, TPLF generals have given orders to the police and militia on both sides of the Somali and Oromo border regions to leave immediately or ...

ESAT News (December 2, 2017) At least two members of the Agazi forces, special kill squad of the TPLF, have been killed in an ambush in Haberu Wacheti, Hararghe as they were heading to quell anti-TPLF protests in the area.   Some sources put the number of soldiers killed at four. No party took responsibility for the killings but sources ...

ESAT News (December 20, 2017) Recurring reports of violence in several universities and clashes in different parts of Ethiopia are deeply worrying, in particular as regards their increasingly ethnic nature, the European Union said in a statement today. The statement by Catherine Ray, the Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy pointed out the recent incidents in Oromia-Somali regions, which ...

ESAT News (December 19, 2017) Reports reaching ESAT say regime security forces killed 7 civilians on Monday in Southern Ethiopia as anti-TPLF protests intensified in the region and beyond. In towns stretching from Yabello to Moyale, Agazi forces of the regime carried out extra-judicial killings against protesters, particularly targeting the Oromos, according to sources. The road from Yabello to Moyale, ...