ESAT News (September 1, 2017) Over 50 people were reportedly killed in Meiso, Harar in clashes between the Somali region special police and Oromos residing on the border with the Somali region. The Oromos accuse that the Somali regional government had sent the Liyou (Special) police force in the areas bordering the two side to forcefully crush a dispute between ...

ESAT News (August 30, 2017) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) denounced the refoulement of Abdikarin Sheikh Muse, an executive committee member of the Front to Ethiopia. Mr. Sheik Muse, who lived in Mogadishu for three years, was detained by the regional security of the Galkacyo, Galmudug regional state in central Somalia on August 23, 2017, according to a press ...

ESAT News (August 29, 2017) The Ethiopian regime is to transfer the administration of disputed areas to the Sudan for a period of ten years, according to sources with access to documents and maps of the disputed areas that locals claim were historically in Gondar. The new development came after Ethiopia’s Prime Minister paid a visit to the Sudan last ...

ESAT News (August 28, 2017) The illegal dumping of toxic along Ethiopia’s road construction routes is resulting in higher rates of child mortality and increased rates of diseases associated with exposure to toxins, according to early research by economists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The researchers were able to link increased rates of ...

ESAT News (August 28, 2017) A former Guinean mining minister was sentenced to 7 years in jail for laundering 8.5 million dollars, money that he took as bribes from a Chinese mineral company. Mahmoud Thiam was convicted in May of taking illegal payments to help China International Fund Ltd. win exclusive rights to mine Guinea’s iron, gold, diamonds and bauxite ...

ESAT News (August 16, 2017) The newly minted director general of the World Health Organization and the former foreign minister of Ethiopia denies his country is one of the leading jailers of journalists. In an interview with Foreign Affairs magazine, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , who was once a member of the inner circle of the TPLF, a regime that holds ...

ESAT News (August 16, 2017) The legal director of an international advocacy group has said that Ethiopia’s political prisoners like journalist Eskinder Nega and Andualem Aragie are not terrorists but victims of “kangaroo courts” and unjust laws designed to criminalize fundamental rights. Kate Barth, Legal Director of Freedom Now and international advocate for Eskinder Nega and Andualem Aragie, told ESAT ...

ESAT News (August 15, 2017) A travel ban has been imposed on high level TPLF officials, family members and accomplices suspected of embezzlement as part of the ongoing campaign against corruption in Ethiopia which critics say has so far targeted small-time scoundrels and left top TPLF officials who are widely accused of pocketing millions of dollars untouchable. ESAT has obtained ...

ESAT News (August 14, 2017) Ethiopia called five ambassadors but its special envoy, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United States, Girma Birru may not return home at a time when the regime is cracking down on corruption and arresting officials suspected of high level embezzlement, according to ESAT’s sources who allege that the ambassador has a stake in a ...