by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (April 9, 2019) Ethiopian security forces reportedly shot and killed a pregnant woman and wounded another young man in Eastern Ethiopia last night bringing the death toll to five since a new PM was appointed last Monday. According to a Facebook post activist Jawar Mohammed, the woman named Ayantu Mohammed Shanko was walking home when ...

ESAT News (April 6, 2018) Authorities are now recruiting paid militia to disarm the people in the Amhara region as several earlier attempts by the regime to take weapons away from the people in the region has failed. Attempt by regime security forces to disarm individuals in the last few months ended up deadly. At least ten regime soldiers were ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (April 4, 2018) Security forces have continued arrest and intimidation in various parts of the country using a state of emergency imposed for the second time and for celebrating the election of a new Prime Minister. Reports reaching ESAT show that regime security forces known as Agazis have arrested and detained several people in Dire ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (April 4, 2018) One of Ethiopia’s opposition party, the Blue Party, called on the newly elected Prime Minister to give priority to bring together all opposition parties and civic organizations at home and in the Diaspora to arrive at a national consensus and pave the way for the formation of a government elected by the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (April 2, 2018) Abiy Ahmed, who swore in today as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, said that the country needed to respect human rights, freedom of expression and assembly in the spirit of the constitution, which has been routinely violated by the regime.   In a speech that called for healing, reconciliation and unity in a country ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 30, 2018) The re-arrest of Eskinder Nega is inhumane and an outrageous attack on the right of free expression in Ethiopia, Pen America, a press watchdog said in a statement. The statement by the Pen America came after authorities in Ethiopia rearrested journalists and bloggers last Sunday for what the authorities allege was holding ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 28, 2018) The Ethiopian People’s Democratic Front (EPRDF) had elected a new chairman yesterday in the person of Abiy Ahmed, leader of the Oromo party in the four group coalition, the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO). Apparently, it is the first time that an Oromo assumed the highest position in the coalition, which has ...

ESAT News (March 27, 2018) The International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies said 100 Ethiopian households were migrating to Kenya and projected that the population could reach 15,000 by the end of this month. The figure does not include those migrants who are under the care of relatives on the Kenyan side. About 40,000 people fled to ...

ESAT News (March 26, 2018) Nineteen people have reportedly been arrested in the city of Bahir Dar on Saturday by the orders of the Command Post, the authority in charge of the state of emergency declared in Ethiopia. They were accused by the Command Post of planning to form an Amhara political party, but the detainees say they had a ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 22, 2018) The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the core of the ruling coalition, has demanded the dismissal of those Members of Parliament at the House of People’s Representatives who voted against the reimposition of a state of emergency saying they had stood against the position of the ruling EPRDF, according to ESAT sources. ...