ESAT NEWS (July 2, 2016) The UN Human Rights Council on Friday rejected a resolution to refer Eritrea to the Security Council, but instead passed “a watered-down” resolution against the East African country, according to reports. A UN Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea last month recommended that the human rights situation in that country be referred to the International Criminal ...

ESAT News (July 2, 2016) A local administrator in Aweday, East Hararge shot and killed three, two of them children as police opened fire on residents who had gathered for a fund raising event for two individuals whose businesses were gutted by fire. Residents of Aweday told ESAT that they were holding a fundraising for a barber shop and a ...

ESAT News (July 1, 2016) The TPLF regime in Ethiopia has been moving its army and heavy military equipment in large numbers to the north of the country, according to eyewitness accounts. The witnesses said public transport buses, as per the instructions given by the regime, have been transporting large numbers of the army from south and central regions of ...

  ESAT News (June 22, 2016) Ambassadorial and other diplomatic positions in most of the countries with significant diplomatic ties to Ethiopia have now been taken by senior members of the TPLF, it was learnt. The minority regime is replacing Ambassadors and diplomats from other ethnic groups with Tigrians. According to sources, Girma Biru, an Oromo, and ambassador of the ...

  ESAT News (June 22, 2016) Six children have sustained serious injuries following a grenade explosion in Adama Woreda, East Shewa Zone, local media reported on Wednesday. The six children ranging from 5 to 17 and three other women sustained the injuries when one of the children, unbeknownst to her that it was a grenade, tried to sell it to ...