BY ADDIS STANDARD Ethiopia has finally released Andargachew Tsige, the co-founder, and secretary-general of Arbegnoch Ginbot 7 (AG7), Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy. In the same day, the Attorney General confirmed that active criminal charges against Dr. Berhanu Nega, leader of AG7 were dropped.
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By ESAT News, Ato Neamin Zeleke today announced that he is resigning from his Managing Director position at the Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT) effective from January 1, 2016. Burdens from other commitments and to make room for other responsibilities is the reason for his sudden departure. ESAT Board of Directors, in the meantime, […]
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By ESAT News, Ambassador Herman Cohen, a veteran US diplomat who had worked in Sudan, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Angola said a minority regime could never achieve economic development. “Ethiopians cannot invest if they don’t belong to the minority regime,” the ambassador said in an interview he gave to ESAT’s Assegid Habtewold, referring to the investment […]
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By ESAT News, The management of the Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT) announced that it would soon stop transmitting its news and programming via the Russian AM44 satellite, one of its two satellites, due to pressure from the Russian government. The management said, however, that ESAT will continue its transmission to Ethiopia via its […]
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By ESAT News, On Synday October 18, 2015, ESAT and Vision Ethiopia organised a one-day highly successful conference on the present and future relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea at Georgetown Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC. The panelists range from former United States diplomats and State Department officials to former Ethiopian government officials, senior academics, authors, […]
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By ESAT News, In a desperate attempt to silence an independent Ethiopian TV and radio broadcasting service, the Ethiopian government has reportedly sent a high level delegation to Russia. It was found that the primary mission of the delegation was to demand the Russian government to drop from its satellite the broadcasting of news and […]
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By Yohannes Kifle, Given the local weather condition, to the vast majority of Eritreans and Ethiopians residing in the Washington, D.C metropolitan area, Sunday, October 18th might have been a gloomy day. However, for those of us who chose to attend the panel discussion that was organized by ESAT and Vision Ethiopia to discuss future […]
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By Vision Ethiopia and ESAT, On Sunday October 18, 2015 a successful one-day long conference was held at Georgetown Marriott Hotel, in Washington, DC. The theme of the conference was on the present and future relationship between Eritrea and Ethiopia and had conflict prevention and resolution threads. The panelists range from former United States diplomats […]
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