by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 2, 2018) Media controlled by the regime in Ethiopia have reported that the Parliament has passed the six-month state of emergency declared by the Council of Ministers on February 16, 2018. There are, however, uncertain and different figures reported as to how many of the members of Parliament voted in favor of passing the ...

U.S. Secretary of State travels to Ethiopia amid political turmoil: State Department announces by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 1, 2018) U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, will travel to Ethiopia next week amid political crisis in the country as nationwide protests call for the demise of 27 years of dictatorship and as a rule by state of emergency decree ...

ESAT News (March 1, 2018) A delegate from the United States was told by TPLF officials that the state of emergency was necessary to “prevent a takeover of power by the military,” according to ESAT’s diplomatic sources. A diplomatic mission led by Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu was in Washington, DC few days before the declaration of the martial law on ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (ESAT News March 1, 2018) Corruption has continued to worsen in Ethiopia and the country still continues to be one of the ten African countries where illicit financial flows is rampant. According to the annual corruption perceptions index of 2017 recently released by Transparency International, Ethiopia is still one of the countries at the bottom ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 1, 2018) Ana Gomes, a Portuguese member of the European Parliament say the recent statement put out by the European Union regarding the state of emergency in Ethiopia was a “shame.” She called on the Parliament to bring the issue with the High Representative for Human Rights and take a position that respects the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 28, 2018) TPLF army generals as well security and intelligence personnel had visited houses of MPs from door to door, threatening members of Ethiopia’s rubber stamp parliament not to vote against the state of emergency declared on February 16, 2018. Members of Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives, who are in recess, are holding an ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 27, 2018) A statement issued today by the “Command Post”, the military and security committee overseeing a martial law declared in Ethiopia last week, says the military has been ordered to “take all measures necessary” against civilian protesters demanding political reforms. The statement specifically mentioned the renewed protest in the country’s Oromo region, where ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 27, 2018) One person was killed and 20 others wounded when snipers of the TPLF/Agazi forces indiscriminately shot at protesters in the city of Nekemte, Western Ethiopia. Abebe Mekonnen, was shot by sniper fire this morning at the central square of Nekemte, a city that has seen renewed protest demonstration against the TPLF regime ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 26, 2018) Gebeyehu Fantahun, a political prisoner serving a four year term under trumped up terrorism charges, had died on Sunday. Fantahun was held in a dark cell and had repeatedly been tortured at the Central Investigation Bureau in the capital Addis Ababa, according to friends and family.   Security forces arrested Gebeyehu Fantahun ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (February 26, 2018) The city of Nekemte was covered with plumes of smokes today as protesters burnt tyres and blocked roads angered by the detention and ban on leaders of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), who planned to meet their supporters in the city last Saturday. Prominent Oromo political leaders including Dr. Merera Gudina and ...