ESAT News (December 15, 2016) A member of the European Parliament called for the European Union to end its complicity with the Ethiopian regime that kills peaceful protesters and jails journalists and political opponents. https://youtu.be/iEWeRYPdvSg Ana Maria Gomes made an impassioned plea to members of the European Union to end their silence over the crimes perpetrated by the regime. Mrs. ...

ESAT News (November 21, 2016) Illicit financial flows from Ethiopia could be much higher than those estimates by international financial institutions including the Global Financial Integrity, a former intelligence operative told ESAT. The revenue from the export of cash crops and other exports such as flower, coffee, honey, cattle, incense, among others, would just be transferred to a foreign bank, ...

  ESAT News (October 9, 2016) The TPLF-led government, shaken by widespread protests, declared Sunday a six-month long state of emergency. The titular Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said in a televised address to the nation that the state of emergence was needed to repulse what he called “the danger posed by anti-peace elements and foreign enemies on the peace, security ...

ESAT News (September 15, 2016) Security forces in southern Ethiopia are forcing the displacement of Amharas in Konso, in what the locals said was a deliberate attempt by regime operatives to incite ethnic violence, according to ESAT’s sources. The displacement came as the people of Konso, who demanded self-administration, were also under attack by the forces. Unable to respond positively ...

ESAT News (July 5, 2016) Ethiopian farmers in Tach Armacheho, North Gondar, reportedly killed five Sudanese soldiers following an incursion by the Sudanese into Ethiopian farmlands. An Ethiopian farmer, Godana Amde, was killed in the battle on Saturday that was sparked by the incursion and burning of an Ethiopian farm by the Sudanese soldiers who crossed the Guang River and ...