Mootummaan Wayyaanee Walgahii Miseensota Isaaf Magaalaa Sulultaa Irratti Taasiseen Naannoo addaa Finfinnee fi Magaalaa Finfinnee Keessatti Afaan Hojii fi Barumsaa Afaan Amaaraa Qofa Akka Tahuu Qabu Beeksise.

Gabaasa Onkoloolessa 30,2013 Finfinnee

Onkoloolessa 25 irraa kaasee godina addaa naannoo Finfinnee magaalaa Sulultaa irratti mootummaan wayyaanee guyyaa 5niif wal gayii miseensota isaa kanneen tahan hundaaf teesisee jira. Akka madda gabaasaa kanaatti kaayyoo wal gayii isaanii :

1.  Ilmaan Oromoo sabboonummaa qabanii kan miseensa isaanii tahanii jiran irratti qorannoo irratti gaggeessaa fi gaggama hojii isaanii keessa seenuudhaan wal irratti kaasuudhaan isintu iccitii mootummaa dhaaba mormitootaaf kennaa jira,keessumaa ammo dhaaba Adda Bilisummaa Oromoof(ABO)  haala mootummaa keenyaa gabaasaa kan godhu numa keessaa isini jettee miseensa isaanii keessaa kanneen sabboonummaa qaban irratti yakka kana banuudhaan hojii irraa ari’uuf murtoo irra akka jirantu gabaasaa Qeerroo aanaa kanaa irraa addeessa.

Violence, Chaos Let Polio Creep Back Into Syria And Horn Of Africa

In the border town of Wajaale, Ethiopia, a frayed, knotted rope marks the international boundary with Somalia. The rope is ignored by just about everyone.

October 30, 2013 (NPR) — Global efforts to eradicate polio have made impressive progress over the past decade. Last year there were only 223 cases anywhere in the world.

But armed conflict and chaos are making it tough for the world to wipe out the virus completely.

Polio has re-emerged in war-torn Syria after more than a decade, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday. “The original cluster of suspected cases was 22 cases,” says the WHO’s Oliver Rosenbauer. “Out of those, 10 have now been confirmed as polio. The others are still being processed in the laboratory.”

Over in the Horn of Africa, an outbreak has ballooned into more than 190 cases. The outbreak’s epicenter is Somalia, where fighting and violence have kept vaccinators from reaching hundreds of thousands of kids in the past few years.

Daba Motummaan EPRDF Oromoo irraan ga’aa jiru

     T. Kumssaa | Narobii, Kenya irraa                                                  | Onkololessa 30, 2013

Ummatni Oromoo biyyaa kessaa daba Wayyaneen hojjachaa jirun ammallee hedduu dararamaa jira.

TPLF fi Aangoo saaniis

Sagantaa Wayyaanee inni guddaa fi yaroo dheeraa: Miseensolin waraana TPLF Affaan Oromoo barreessuu fi hasawu danda`u dha. Kanaf keessumaa Tigrootni Oromiyaa keessatti dhalatan ykn ammoo guddatan sagantaa kana fiixan baasuf hedduu carraaqaa jiran. Kun ammoo malanis ta´e humnaan yoo xiqaate illee Oromiyaa bulchuun /saamun ilmaan Tigrootaa fi biyyaa saanii ittin guddisachuf sagantaa wagaa diiddamoota darbban keessa baafatan hojii irra oolchaa jiran.

Al-Shabaab rebuilds forces in Somalia as African Union campaign stalls

One of a number of propaganda photographs published on Somali websites, apparently from al-Shabaab strongholds, showing uniformed men riding on motorbikes.

October 29, 2013 (The Guardian) — A Kenyan soldier clambers up to his sentry post and stares out across vast plains of bush, acacia trees and red dust. The savanna is peaceful now, but he knows that when darkness falls the enemy will return, typically a band of 15 to 20 men armed with AK-47 rifles. “Every night they are in front of us,” the soldier says. “They shoot and go. They run away.”

Along the frontline, the Kenyans have piled clusters of green sandbags to provide cover. Behind them, a military base is protected by high walls crowned with razor wire.

NAMA FOON BEEKU SOMBAAN HIN GOWOMSAN!

       Gabaasa Qeerroo Finfinnee irraa

Mootummaan Wayyaanee barattoota saayinsii fayyaa (medical science) baratan muummee barnoota gargaraatin Yuunivarsiitiwwan garagaraa irraa bara 2005 A.L.Htti  eebbifamaniif yeroo gargaraatti muummen addaan qoodee leenjii hojii duraa kennaafii jira.Mootummaan Wayyaanee barattoota hojii qabattachuu dura imaammataa fi tarsiimoo keenya beekuu fi beektanii fudhachuun dirqama keessan jedhee torbee darbe Onkoloolessaa 22,2013  irraa kaasee magaalaa Finfinnee kutaa magaalaa Garbii(sangaa taraa)

US couple sentenced in death of adopted daughter from Ethiopia

FILE – In a Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 file photo, Larry Williams, center, listens as Skagit County Prosecutor Rich Weyrich makes the case to the jury in the homicide by abuse trial of Larry and Carri Williams, in Mount Vernon, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Williams were sentenced Tuesday for the death of their adopted daughter Hana Williams after starving and beating her and forcing her outside as punishment.

October 29, 2013, MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) – A couple accused of starving, beating and forcing their adopted daughter outside as punishment were sentenced Tuesday to decades in prison for her death.

Larry and Carri Williams were convicted Sept. 9 of manslaughter in the death of a teenage girl they adopted from Ethiopia. Carri Williams was also found guilty of homicide by abuse.

Hana Williams was found dead May 12, 2011, in the backyard of the family home in Sedro-Woolley, about 100 kilometres north of Seattle. The autopsy said she died of hypothermia, with malnutrition and a stomach condition as contributing factors.

Norway: Bergen streets in the fight against torture

Ethiopians demonstrating against the systematic torture of political prisoners in the country

Saturday afternoon demonstrated Ethiopians against the abuse of dissidents in the country. Photo: Eirik Hagesæter

October 27, 2013, Norway (BA) – We demonstrate in order to put pressure on the Norwegian government and the international community, so they can put pressure on the regime in Ethiopia , says EBSS Tesema to BA.

Ethiopia Worest Place to be a women

October 28, 2013 (The Global Gender Report) — For five years in a row, Iceland has been rated the country with the world’s smallest gender gap by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The rating means Iceland is the country where women enjoy the most equal access to education and healthcare. It is also where women are most likely to be able to participate fully in the country’s political and economic life.

Iceland is joined at the top of the The Global Gender Gap Report, 2013 by its Nordic neighbours Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Bruker Bergens gater i kampen mot tortur

Real wildcatters go to Ethiopia to hunt for oil

Oct. 25 (UPI) – Amid East Africa’s oil and gas boom, the more adventurous oilmen are starting to gravitate toward the vast Ogaden desert region of Ethiopia, where drilling activity has been sparse since rebels attacked an exploration team in 2007, killing nine Chinese and 65 Ethiopians.

Oilmen believe Ethiopia lies on the same oil-bearing strata as the massive discovery in Kenya by British-based Tullow Oil in early 2012.

Initial estimates are that Ethiopia has oil reserves of around 2.7 billion barrels.

Sirni Awwaalchaa J/ Obsee Kabajaa Olaanaan Raawwate

                                                                                                                                   October 27, 2013 ·

Sirni Awwaalchaa Jaal Obsee Margoo

(Oromedia, 26 Onkoloolessa 2013) Sirni awwaalchaa, Jaal Obsee Margoo, bakka maatii, firoottanii ishii akksumas miseensootii fi deeggartooti qabsoo bilisummaa Oromoo heddumminaan argamanitt biyya Norwey magaala Berganitti Onkoloolessa 11, 2013 akka aadaa fi sirna amantii ishiitti raawwate

African rule of law declines despite economic gains, Ibrahim index shows

Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s annual governance appraisal calls for greater focus on justice and safety to avoid social unrest

Mo Ibrahim says that despite progress on governance, African countries must be stronger on justice and safety. Photograph: Keith Bedford/EPA

October 23, 2013 (The Guardian) — African countries have experienced widespread human development and improved economic opportunities since 2000, but the rule of law has deteriorated in a number of countries, according to the Ibrahim index of African governance (IIAG).

The annual index, published on Monday by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, was established by the Sudanese philanthropist in 2006 to chart Africa‘s development progress.

The 2013 edition found that 94% of people in 52 countries – Sudan and South Sudan have been excluded for a second successive year due to lack of available data – lived in a country that had demonstrated improved overall governance since the turn of the century. However, average scores in the category looking specifically at safety and the rule of law showed a marked decline.

The Untold Story of “Raggaatuu”- The Famous OLA Commander

Originally written by: Afendi Muteki

Translated by : Hambisaa Soolee

Raggaatuu

October 23, 2013 (Gulele Post) — In the history of OLA (Oromo Liberation Army), Juukii Barentoo is the most revered female martyr. Her martyrdom was so different in that she gave her life to save many Oromo fighters while she was one of the leaders of the organization. This was happened in 1984 when the special force of the Dergue army ambushed the OLF central command post at Daro-Billiqa in sounthern Daro-Labu district, Hararge province (Near Hararge-Bale border). Juukii, the first female to be elected to the Central Committee of OLF, fought bravely with the Dergue forces for three consecutive days and saved the life of many leaders and fighters of the organization including Obbo Galaasaa Dilboo, the then chairperson of OLF. When she knew that the OLF leaders and others safely crossed to Bale province, because she was wounded, she took her own life, instead of surrender.

The Dergue junta thought that the martyrdom of Juukii would cause a big morale disaster on OLF fighters and many would leave the struggle and come back to home.

WARAABESSA LEENCOME – ASOOSAMA GABAABAA WARAABESSA LEENCOME!

                                                                                                               October 22, 2013 

Beekan Gulummaa Irranaa-Oromiyaarraa | Onkololeessa 22, 2013

Ija guyyaa dhabee halkan keessa soorasaa kan funaannataa bulu waraabessi bineensa ijatti hintolle ta’uusaa bineensonni biroon yeroo mara irratti waliigalu. Kan inni okkolaa ademu ammoo bara hundumaa warreen qaama hir’ataa ta’an keessatti isa ramachiisa. Gara jabeessa bineensota biroof garaa hinlaafne ta’uunsaammoo dhiigni qulqulluun bineensota biroo hanga har’aatti fuula Waaqaatti ol iyyataa jiru kun ragaadha.

BREAKING: Last week terrorist bomb explosion in Ethiopia was planted by the regime – witnesses

EthiopianReview.com | October 22nd, 2013

Ethiopian Review has confirmed from multiple witnesses that the Oct. 13, 2013, alleged terrorist bomb explosion in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa was planted by the regime.

According to our sources, the night before the explosion, two dead bodies were taken by TPLF security agents from Menilik Hospital and placed inside the house where the explosion took place. The house was allegedly rented by Somali nationals, but it has now been exposed that the Somalis were brought from the Somali region by the regime’s security agents a few days before the incident took place and were transported back right after the explosion.

Yuunivarsiitiileen Impaayera Itoophiyaa keessaa diddaa barattootaan dhuunfatamuun gabaafame

Onkoloolessa 22,2013 Finfinnee

Yuunivarsiitiileen Impaayera Itoophiyaa keessaa gaaffii mirgaan mudda keessa seene. Gaaffiileen mirgaa mirgi namummaa fi Dimokiraasii keessatti haa kabajamu jechuun Yuunivarsiitii Dabra Maarqos, Jimmaa fi Walloo keessatti finiinaa jira. Yuunivarsiitii Hawaasaa keessatti bulchinsootni yuunivarsiitii humna waraanaa dabalinsaan barbaaduu isaanii ibsatanii jiran. Yuunivarsiitiilee mara keessatti gaaffiileen wal fakkaataan sirni bulchinsa mootummaa wayyaanee sirrii miti jechuun diddaan dhageessifamaa jira.

Ethiopia: Torture in the heart of Addis, even as leaders gather in gleaming AU building

Laetitia Bader

October 21, 2013 (HRW) — Many journalists and diplomats who attend events in Addis Ababa’s gleaming new African Union building are probably unaware that it rests on the site of one of Ethiopia’s most notorious prisons. While that prison was torn down in 2007, its legacy of torture and abuse continues today at the heart of the capital.

Over the past year, I have spoken to dozens of people who were held in a detention centre called Maekelawi in central Addis. They described dire conditions and a range of abusive interrogation methods to extract information and confessions.

Are Oromos Singled Out and Disproportionately Tortured in Ethiopia?

October 21, 2013 (Oromo Press) — You may ask people in Oromia, what is the language most widely spoken in Ethiopia’s prisons? Who are the ethnic groups singled out and subjected to extreme torture in Ethiopia’s notorious torture facilities? The answers to both questions are Afan Oromo (the Oromo language), and Oromo people respectively. People have pointed to this time and again to the point that torture and political imprisonments are almost becoming synonymous with one ethnicity in Ethiopia, the Oromo people.

ONLF fighters attack Kebridahar Airport

Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Demeke Mekonnen and his delegation lands at Godey Airport

October 21, 2013 (Ogadentoday Press)- Ogaden National Liberation Front “ONLF,” official have claimed that their fighters attacked on Kebridahar town Airport on last week.

Our aim for this attack was to disrupt the visiting delegation in Ogaden and send a clear message to the puppet administration that serves only the colonial agendas in our people and land. The official said to Ogadentoday Press on the phone.

Speaking on the attack the official said that they have killed several Ethiopian Troops at the airport and destroyed two vehicles.

This was a co-ordinated attack and went successfully, the official said.

The puppet administration was hiding the attack but the military leaders informed the delegation, said the official citing their intelligence in the Ogaden.

I can confirm to you that, it was midnight and they have been waiting to welcome the federal delegation in the morning.

Ethiopia’s first marathon draws crowds to ‘land of runners’; Gudissa Shentema wins

Gudissa Shentema, born on June 20, 1980, in Dendi, Oromia

October 20, 2013, Hawassa, Ethiopia (AFP) – The sun had barely risen but the cool morning air was buzzing with excitement: 350 participants had gathered in Ethiopia, the land of runners, for the country’s first international marathon organised by athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie.

Sunday’s race, which drew 150 elite Ethiopian athletes and about 150 foreign “fun runners”, promises to boost professionalism in a country that has produced scores of world-class runners, many of whom started running barefoot along dusty country roads.

“Believe me, we can produce more big names, we can produce more marathon runners, more Olympic champions, world champion and world record holders,” said Gebrselassie, two-time marathon record-breaker and 10,000 Olympic champion.

Race organisers sought to draw Ethiopia’s top athletes to the race in Hawassa, 275 kilometres (170 miles) south of Ethiopia’s capital, by offering the largest cash prize in Ethiopian racing history — close to $5,300 (3,855 euros) each for the top man and woman competitors.

Ethiopian completes fastest marathon run in Canada; Tola wins Beijing Marathon

October 20, 2013, Canada (CBC News) — A pair of women each broke a 28-year-old record at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Sunday, while an Ethiopian runner clocked the fastest marathon time on Canadian soil.

Lanni Marchant of London, Ont., finished the marathon in 2:28:00, just over a half-minute ahead of Krista DuChene of Brantford, Ont., who clocked a race time of 2:28:32.

Both times beat Sylvia Ruegger’s previous record of 2:28:36, which had been set in Houston in 1985.

Call for a Peaceful Rally Bergen, Norway

We Oromo communities residing in Bergen Norway, neighboring communities and friends of Oromo are very concerned about human rights violations particularly against the Oromo in Ethiopia. Therefore we have a plan to have a peaceful rally against the dictatorial regime in Ethiopia on October 25, 2013.

Time and Place:

The demonstration will be held on the 25^th October 2013 from 13.00 to 15.00. We will gather at the bluestone, and we will head through the gallery, pass along the exhibition center and move all the way to the police station and thereby deliver a letter to the person in charge.

Madda Walaabuu Media Foundation is to Launch a New Program to Oromia

October 18, 2013 (ayyaantuu.com) — In September 2013, after extensive consultation, over several months, with various segments of Oromo society, a group of community leaders, human rights activists, feminists, journalists and attorneys who are committed to the principle of democracy, human rights, freedom and justice, formed the Madda Walaabuu Media Foundation (MWMF).

Hawaasa Oromoo biyya Uganda: Gabaasa haala ayyaana Irreechaa 2013

Okonkoleesa 17, 2013

Ayyaanni irreechaa Oromoo biratti ayyaana guddaa fi kabajamaa sadarkaa biyyoolessatti kabajamuu ta’uun isaa nama hin gaafachiisu. Waan hunda caalaa ammoo ayyaanni kun yeroo ammaa kana kan ittiin Oromoon addunyaatti beekamuu fi meeshaa guddaa ittiin haala Oromoo bifa waliigalaan addunyaatti ibsu ta’eera.

Aadaan guddaa fi jaalatamaan kun baroota dheeraaf akka ukkamamuu ta’ee haaturu iyyuu malee, dhiiga ilmaan Oromoo qaqqaliin itti gabbaramee har’a ayyaannii kun sadarkaa addunyaatti beekamee jira. Hawaasi Oromoo bakka jiru hundaatti kabajamaa jira. Bifuma kanaan hawaasi Oromoo biyyaa Yugandaa waggaa shan fuuldura ayyaana irreechaa biyyaa Yugandaatti kabajachuu eegale. Waggoota shanaan darbe kana keessatti kabajaan ayyaana kanaa waggaatti gara waggatti dabalaa fi guddataa deeme.

Wallaggaa,Aanaa Hawaa Galaan Keessatti Ayyaana Masqalaan Wal Qabatee FDG Gaggeefameen Oromooti Hidhaman.

Onkoloolessa 18,2013 Dambi Doollo

Gabaasaa godina Wallaggaa annaa  Qellem,Hawwaa Galaan irraa boodana nu dhaqabe akka addeessuttti Fulbaana 27,2013 ayyaana masqalaa sababeeffachuun uummanni Oromoo jiraattota Hawaa Galaan ta’an walitti dhufuun sirboota aadaa Oromoo fi  qabsoo dhageessisuudhaan tokkummaa uummataa fi sochii warraaqsaa deemsisaa waan turaniif dabballootaa fi bulchitoota Wayyaanee naannichatti argaman garaa gubaa akka turan gabaafamee jira.

Kenya, Ethiopia Mediating Omo River Water Controversy

Editor’s Note: No one is talking for the people living in the Omo valley on the Ethiopian side. Like the people who are dying around Lake Koka, the people who live in the Omo River Basin are facing an environmental disaster that could push them not only to hunger, starvation, dislocation and conflict, but potentially to extinction through habitat destruction. A massive hydroelectric dam and associated land grabs for plantations threaten the tribes of the Lower Omo River. The tribes have lived in this area for centuries and have developed techniques to survive in a challenging environment. They have not been consulted about the dam or the plantations and stand to lose their livelihoods based on the river’s natural flood cycle [Survival International]

Indigenous populations at Loarengak in remote northwest Kenya surrive on fish and cattle in region where survival depends on access to water from the Omo River in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is building a hydro dam that Kenyans fear threatens Kenyan livelihoods

October 17, 2013, WASHINGTON (VOA News) — An environmental controversy surrounding the construction of Gilgel Gibe III Dam in Ethiopia’s Highlands appears to be close to resolution. Kenyan authorities have raised concerns about the dam because it is being built along Ethiopia’s Omo River which is the major source of water for Kenya’s Lake Turkana.

The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) has been working with Kenyan and Ethiopian governments on developing a joint project on sustainable development of the basin.

An agreement between the two water ministries may be signed in November, said an official for UNEP in Nairobi. The draft agreement proposes joint management of all natural resources in Lake Turkana and its river basin which extends upstream into Ethiopia.

USS San Antonio Rescues 128 Migrants in the Mediterranean

By James Mackenzie, Reuters

October 17, 2013, ROME (NBC News)  - A U.S. Navy ship rescued 128 men from a raft after it was spotted in the Mediterranean Sea by a Maltese patrol aircraft, U.S. authorities said, the latest incident in the growing migrant crisis.

Index: Nearly 30 million people in slavery

Index says 10 countries, including India, China, and Pakistan, account for 76 percent of the people living in slavery.

They are forced into sex work, domestic servitude, or low-paid jobs [Getty Images]

October 17, 2013 (Aljazeera) — Nearly 30 million people are living in slavery across the globe, many of them men, women and children trafficked by gangs for sex work and unskilled labour, according to a global slavery index.

The index, released on Thursday by anti-slavery charity Walk Free Foundation, ranked 162 countries on the number living in slavery, the risk of enslavement, and the strength of government responses to combating the illegal activity.

It found that 10 countries accounted for 76 percent of the 29.8 million people living in slavery – India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Ethiopia’s pastoralists struggle with harsher weather

by E.G. Woldegebriel

October 16, 2013, DUBULKE, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Dida Gemechu is in his sixth decade, and he has never seen life as tough as it is now.

Jaal Obsee Margoo Addunyaa Kanarraa Boqotte

Jaal Obsee Margoo

Onkoloolessa 15, 2013 (Oromedia) Haadha Warraa Hayyu-duree ABO, Jaal Daawud Ibsaa, kan ta’an Aadde Obsee Margoo dhukkuba akka tasaatiin addunyaa kana irraa darbuun  gabaasame.

Maddeen keenya Norwey, Bergen, irraa akka ibsanitti, haati warraa Jaal Daawud Ibsaa dhukkuba akka tasaa  mudate akka wal’aanamtuuf gaafa 08/10/2013 galgala gara mana yaalaa “Haukeland sykehus” biyya Norway magaalaa Bergen itti argamutti geeffamte.

Oromiyaa keessatti gaafa 29/11/1976 kan dhalatte Jaal Obseen, mana yaalaa geeffamte keessatti wal’aansa fayyaa otuu fudhachaa jirtuu gaafa 11/10/2013 addunyaa kana irraa du’aan boqotuun ishii beekamee jira.

Hawaasa Oromoo biratti hedduu jaalatamtuu fi kabajamtuu kan turte Jaal Obsee Margoo, bakka deemte maratti eenyummaa fi Oromummaa mul’isuudhaan akka mararfannoo guddaa qabaachaa turte kanneen dhiyeenyatti beekan ragaa bahu.

Election dispute leads to violence outside Battersea Ethiopian church

By Alexandra Rucki

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, in St Philip Street

October 17, 2013 (Your Local Guardian) — Violence erupted at the re-consecration of a church as a long-running rift between rival worshippers saw a protest turn ugly.

Police arrested five people as the protest, which had begun on Saturday escalated to all out combat on Sunday outside the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, in St Philip Street, Battersea

It is believed the dispute, ongoing for 10 months, is over the election of trustees to run the church.

The church closed in April this year to clear the air and was reconsecrated on the weekend by two bishops who flew over from Ethiopia.

Oromo Refugees Use Veil for Protection, Disguise

By Peri M. Klemm

The adoption of the veil among this group in Kenya’s refugee communities is a new thing, says Peri M. Klemm in this excerpt from “Veiling in Africa.” While there are many reasons for this push, Islam isn’t a motivation for covering up.

October 13, 2013 (WOMENSENEWS)– The adoption of the veil among Oromo refugees living in Eastleigh, Kenya, one the largest urban refugee communities in Africa, is a recent phenomenon.

Women feel increasing pressure to cover their heads and bodies in accordance with the practices of their Somali neighbors and fellow refugees. More and more, as instability and violence escalate, Oromo women are choosing to adopt full hair, head and body covering as a kind of urban camouflage with which to conceal their ethnicity.

STOP THE SUFFERING OROMO PEOPLE

  By  Mekonenn Elalla Fekadu                                                                      | October 14, 2013

Mekonenn Elalla

The tribal TPLF regime which spent 17 years of guerrilla fighting in jungle before coming to power in 1991 to govern the country for the last 22 years does not seem to have any concern or knowledge for the internationally accepted human right protocols leave aside to abide by the rules and regulations. By its very nature, TPLF is a jungle born tribal party which is incapable to administer Ethiopia in respect of contemporary, civilized thinking of governance. Its inadequacy to lead the country has proved itself in these 22 years when it induces the rule of jungle, force and terror to stay in power. Here after, no one expects TPLF to realize the importance of freedom and democracy to govern a sovereign country. If one thinks that the time is still early for this tribal regime to update itself and respect civilian rights, he or she must be the one who dreams the sun to rise on west and set in the east. No one is optimist to any form of positive change as long as this government is on power.

Bomb blast in Ethiopian capital kills two: state radio

  By Aaron Maasho

October 14, 2013 (Reuters) – A bomb blast in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa killed two people on Sunday, state radio said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, but Ethiopia says it has thwarted plots of attacks in the past two years and blames rebel groups based in the south and southeast, as well as Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents.

“A bomb blast occurred at a residential house in the Bole district and killed two unidentified individuals,” a report on national radio said, quoting the National Security and Intelligence Service.

Distinguished Purdue professor Gebisa Ejeta appointed to U.N. advisory board

Purdue University professor Gebisa Ejeta has been named to the United Nations secretary-general’s Scientific Advisory Board. / File photo/Journal & Courier

October 14, 2013 (Jconline) – A distinguished Purdue University agronomy professor and World Food Prize laureate has achieved another international honor.

Gebisa Ejeta was appointed to the U.N. secretary-general’s new Scientific Advisory Board, which will give advice on science, technology and innovation regarding sustainable development to United Nations organizations.

The board, which is comprised of 26 members representing natural, social, human and agricultural sciences, aims to make sure that scientific findings are reflected in policy decisions made throughout the U.N. Ejeta is the agricultural scientist on the board, according to Purdue.

“It is a great honor and responsibility to have the chance to work at the highest level of global science policy and diplomacy,” Ejeta said.

Ethiopia: millions of Oromo and Somali suffering genocide

by Thomas C. Mountain

October 10, 2013 (For what we are they will be) — Most of the millions of Ethiopians forced into the global limbo of displacement are Oromo or ethnic Somali from the Ogaden, victims of the Ethiopian regime’s genocidal policies. During the recent devastating drought, “all of Oromia and the Ogaden affected by this catastrophe were prevented from receiving food and medical aid by the Ethiopian regime” – one of Washington’s closest allies in Africa.

“At one point up to 1,000 people a day, mostly women, children and the elderly, were dying of hunger.”

Old wounds, deep scars: US intervention in Africa

Recent US special forces raids in Libya and Somalia are the latest examples in a long history of intervention in Africa.

by Mark LeVine

“Soldiers of the al-Shabab militia beat back a US helicopter and an amphibian attack on a safe house reportedly containing one of their leaders, Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir,” writes LeVine [AP]

October 10, 2013 (Aljazeera) — In the long run, it doesn’t really matter which arch-terrorist was taken out and which one got away. The War on/of Terror will continue, especially in Africa, as it stands, US special operations forces managed to capture Abu-Anas al-Libi (real name: Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai), the alleged mastermind behind the deadly 1998 US Embassy attack in Kenya and Tanzania, without firing a shot.

In Somalia things apparently didn’t go nearly as well. Soldiers of the al-Shabab militia beat back a US helicopter and an amphibian attack on a safe house reportedly containing one of their leaders, Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, A Kenyan of Somali heritage who is believed to have plotted attacks on the Kenyan Parliament and local UN headquarters in Nairobi. It also is considered the last known address for Ahmed Abdi Godane, purported leader of the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall last month.

Ethiopian Government Choking Muslim Unrest

By Ed McKenna

Ethiopia’s Muslim community has been taking part in major demonstrations over the last two years against the country’s ruling regime for alleged interference in its religious affairs. Credit: Ed McKenna/IPS

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 10 2013 (IPS News) - The refusal by the Ethiopian government to redress grievances harboured by the Muslim community here, which comprises about 34 percent of the country’s 91 million people makes this Horn of African nation vulnerable to extremism.

“If legitimate grievances are not met there is a risk that extremist violent elements will exploit those grievances to further their own aim,” Mehari Taddele Maru, head of the African Conflict Prevention Programme at the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies, told IPS.

Ethiopia’s Muslim community has been taking part in major demonstrations over the last two years against the country’s ruling regime for alleged interference in its religious affairs. The majority of Ethiopians are Christian.

The mass protests have been non-violent but the Sep. 21 terror attack by the Somali extremist group Al-Shabaab on Kenya’s Westgate Shopping Mall raises questions about the spread of Islamic extremism here, as there are growing concerns that radicalists could exploit grievances if they are not addressed.

Naannawa Finfinnee magaala Darbaatti Uummatni Oromoo waarshaa Simmintoo Darbaa irratti diddaa jabaa kaase.

Onkoloolessa 10,2013 Fifinnee

Saaminsi lafaa mootummaa Wayyaanee gaggeessuun qotee bulaa Oromoo qe’ee dhabeessa taasisaa ture lakkaawamee waan dhumu miti. Godina addaa naannawa Finfinnee Caancoo magaala Darbaa keessattis ilmaan Oromoo qe’ee isaanii irraa buqqisuun lafti waarshaa Simmintoo Darbaaf kennamee ture. Waarshaan kun akkuma dhaabbateen uummataaf waadaa garaa garaa qacarrii, manneen barnootaa dhaabuu, tajaajila bishaanii, fayyaa fi kanneen kana fakkaatan ijaaruuf waadaa galee ture.