Regime carries out brutal crackdown in Ambo, Ethiopia
The Horn of Africa Human Rights League released a report that government security forces had recently committed gross human rights abuses in Ambo, Ethiopia. Around 50 students from the nearby secondary...
View ArticleSouth Sudan and Ethiopia to block rebel movements
Sudan Tribune reported that South Sudan and Ethiopia held an urgent meeting to block the movement of the rebel forces in both countries. Even if Ethiopia and South Sudan made an agreement to close all...
View ArticleConflict in Gambella claims lives
Eyewitnesses told ESAT that a skirmish at Mite, Godere, in Gambella claimed the lives of five citizens. Two individuals severely injured were reportedly being treated in a hospital. The conflict...
View ArticlePeaceful struggle in Ethiopia dead, a section of AEUP leaders declared
Just two weeks remaining for the National Elections to be held in Ethiopia, the main opposition parties claim that the political space is near complete closure. Semayawi party spokesman, Ato Yonatan...
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A young detainee was murdered at Zewai Prison, Ethiopia
ESAT News May 18, 2015 Sisay Teshome, 25, who spent eight years at Zewai and Kaliti prisons, has purportedly been murdered by Zewai prison scourges. A senior commissioner of Zewai prison,...
View ArticleSeveral households refuse to pay annual television service fee in Ethiopia
ESAT News May 18, 2015 A baseline study that the state owned television, Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), conducted reveals that several households refused to pay annual television fee...
View ArticleTension high in North Ethiopia ahead of National Election
ESAT News May 19, 2015 ESAT received reports that the majority of Ethiopians believe that there will be violence in the Northern part of the country in relation to the upcoming general election to...
View ArticleOpposition rebel fighters sign bilateral cooperation agreement
ESAT News May 16, 2015 Opposition rebel groups fighting against the Ethiopian government signed a consensual cooperation agreement that would culminate in eventual unification. In a press statement...
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Election as a tool to legitimize authoritarian regime in Ethiopia, Washington Post Commentary According to a commentary posted on Washington Post, the upcoming election to be held on Sunday in Ethiopia...
View ArticleArmed Ethiopian opposition Groups sign cooperation agreement
Opposition rebel groups fighting against the Ethiopian government have signed a cooperation agreement that they say would culminate in eventual unification. In a press statement sent to ESAT on May 15,...
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PM Haile-Mariam warns opposition parties, leaders on election riot
ESAT News May 21, 2015 Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Haile-Mariam Dessalegn, sent a strong warning to opposition parties in EPRDF controlled parliament. He did not particularly name the parties. The Prime...
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