ESAT News (February 11, 2019) The bodies of four Ethiopians killed Saturday when a military helicopter crashed inside the compound of the UN peacekeeping mission in the disputed region between South Sudan and Sudan arrived home on Sunday. According to a statement by the United Nations, 23 passengers were on board when the helicopter crashed during a routine reconnaissance flight ...

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 ...

ESAT News (May 14, 2018) The government of South Sudan today accused neighboring Ethiopia of allowing rebels use its territory as a “launching pad.” The report by Nyamilepedia quoted Col. Dickson Gatluak Joak, the military spokesman of the forces loyal to the country’s first vice president Taban Deng Gai, as saying that the rebels are using Ethiopian territory as a ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 22, 2018) Ethiopia and a faction of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement led by Riek Machar opposed the proposal by the South Sudanese government earlier this week that the venue for upcoming peace talks should be moved outside Ethiopia citing ongoing political crisis in the country. Both Ethiopia and Juba also called “fake news” ...

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 (December 28, 2017) Gunmen killed eight South Sudanese refugees, including women and children at Dima Refugee Camp in Gambella region of Western Ethiopia over the weekend, Radio Tamazuj reported quoting a camp leader. Children were among the dead in the attack by unidentified gunmen that came on Christmas eve. The Radio quoted Andrew Kaka, chairman of Zone B ...

ESAT News (December 21, 2017) A landlord for the South Sudanese Embassy in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa had been taken to court over rental arrears, the South Sudanese Radio Tamazuj reported today. John Sefo, the landlord who rented his building to South Sudan Embassy in Addis Ababa, told Radio Tamazuj today that he has sued the South Sudanese Embassy over ...

ESAT News (October 6, 2017) The leader of SPLM-IO, Riek Machar met with Ethiopian and Sudanese foreign ministers in South Africa and discussed peace in South Sudan. Sudan Tribune, quoting a statement from the Sudanese foreign ministry, Workneh Gebeyehu of Ethiopia and his Sudanese counterpart Ibrahim Ghandour met with Riek Machar as part of the High- Level Revitalization Forum of ...

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 ...