ESAT News (November 23, 2017) The International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, has admitted he did not raise the case of a British father on death row in Ethiopia at an official meeting with the Ethiopian Prime Minister earlier this month, according to Reprieve, an international human rights organization that is following the case. Asked directly about the case of Andargachew ...

ESAT News (November 23, 20-17) The Ethiopian regime has issued an international tender to buy about 70,000 tons of milling wheat, European traders said. The tender deadline is Dec. 5, according to UkrAgroConsult, a Ukrainian agricultural consulting company. The report said the country also made a major purchase of 400,000 tonnes of wheat in early November. Finance for the 70,000 ...

ESAT News (November 21, 2017) A search for a group of soldiers whose numbers is estimated to be at least 30 has continued in Southern Ethiopia along the country’s border with Kenya, according to ESAT’s sources. The group of soldiers lost communication with their base and disappeared on Monday. A search operation by two teams have not bear fruit thus ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) Initial reports reaching ESAT say unknown number of soldiers with the 10th division of the Ethiopian regime’s army disappeared Monday along the country’s border with Kenya. A search is underway after the soldiers lost radio communication with their base in Southern Ethiopia, according to ESAT sources. A search in Borena and Yabello towns along the ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) People in Southern Ethiopia are protesting the regime for keeping them in poverty and political and economic marginalisation. They also reject a billionaire whom they said had extracted gold for over 20 years but did nothing for the community. Residents of the town of Dima followed the footsteps of those in Shakiso and Adola and ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) University students in the east, south and south west of Ethiopia continue to leave their campuses en mass protesting the intervention of the regime in their academic as well as daily lives. Students of Haromaya University in Eastern Ethiopia have reportedly left their campus today after their demands to the school administration fell on deaf ...

ESAT News (November 20, 2017) A Somali parliamentary inquiry found that the rendition to Ethiopia of a leader of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) in August was unlawful. The Parliament also declared that the ONLF is not a “terrorist” organization. The Ethiopian regime, which declared ONLF a terrorist organization, had sent its security forces to Mogadishu in August and ...

ESAT News (November 17, 2017) An armed group opposing the Ethiopian regime claimed responsibility for an attack on a military camp in Northern Ethiopia. Patriotic Ginbot 7, which has been carrying out sporadic attacks on regime targets in Northern Ethiopia, said its forces have made a surprise attack on a military camp in Azezo, North Gonder. A statement from the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 17, 2017) Residents of towns near a gold mine in Shakiso, Southern Ethiopia, took to the streets in tens of thousands opposing the extension of a contract to a billionaire digging gold on their turf. One of the organizers of the demonstration who spoke to ESAT said the locals object the 10 year extension ...

ESAT News (November 16, 2017) The Minister of Education today warned students over holding any protest rally against the regime. University students especially those in the Oromo region of the country have been protesting against the minority regime calling for its demise. The students demand political and economic rights for everyone, which they said is now available only to the ...