SILENCE AND PAIN: ETHIOPIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD IN THE OGADEN

Martin Plaut  | January 31, 2014

Introduction

The Ogaden is Ethiopia’s dark, dirty secret. It is far from prying international eyes, where almost anything can be done to anyone the government does not like.

The Ogaden was conquered and forcibly incorporated into Ethiopia by Emperor Menelik II in the last quarter of the 19th century. Its Somali speaking, almost exclusively Muslim community, never really accepted an Ethiopian identity. In 1977 it was the scene of an international conflict, as Somali President Siad Barre attempted to wrest the region from Ethiopia. The Soviet Union poured arms and Cuban troops into Ethiopia and the invasion was halted. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has been fighting the Ethiopian government since 1995, and local people have been caught up in the conflict.

US delegation seeks to strengthen partnership with African Union

Speaking at the 22nd African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on Thursday, Deputy Secretary of State William Burns expressed America’s commitment to supporting the AU in its efforts to address hunger and conflict.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns addressed America’s commitment to Africa at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on January 30, 2014

AU Participants in Addis Ababa on January 30, 2014

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Jan. 31 (UPI) – U.S.Deputy Secretary of State William Burns was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week for an African Union summit, where he led a ten person delegation and spoke about America’s commitment to Africa.

No amount of doctors training can change the equation but a just system that motivates and continues to inspire the educated to serve and, serve again!

Ibrahim Elemo, M.D., M.P.H | January 30, 2014

The Difficult road in a place called Abba Roba, before crossing Segen River to reach Konso District

The following piece is in response to an article published on ayyaantuu.com about the brain drain of physicians and other skilled professionals from Ethiopia and other parts of Africa to Canada and other western countries. This is not a new story to many people. What is rather new to some of us is the Ethiopian government’s strategy to deal with this tragedy by massively producing physicians. I read this story a day after I called a 36 year school director who ended in a hospital, one hundred KM away from his home town only because he had a headache and found to have hypertension and given some medicine to control his blood pressure; where he came from there is actually a district level hospital. I spoke with the same person 2 days before, and to my best knowledge he was in good state of health.  I called him and his phone was answered by his wife, who told me that he receiving urgent care in a hospital.

Mootummaan Wayyaanee Seeraa Mirga Barattootaa Ugguru Baase.

Gabaasa Amajjii 30,2014 Jimmaa

Gaafa Amajjii 28/2014 Mootummaan EPRDF fi Ministerri Barnootaa EPRDF seera haaraa baasan irratti baratoota dhaabbilee barmotaa olaanoo kanneen akka Yuunivarsiitii, Kolleejjii, manneen barmotaa sadarkaa 2ffaa fi qopha’ina irraa baratan irraatti seeraa haaraa mirga baratoota biyyaatti sarbu dabarsee jira, seera kanas karaa dabballootaa fi bakka bu’oota mooraa dhaabbiilee barmoota keessatti maxxansuun baratootni dubbiisani jireenya sodaa keessaa of galchuun sodaachaa akka jiraatanif ta’e jedhee mootummaan abbaa irree kun mirgaa baratoota sarbaa jira.

GOOTUMMAA QOFAATU BILISUMMAA MIRKANEESSA !!!!

SEENAA Y.G (2005)   =kutaa 3ffaa | Amajjii 29, 2014

Qabsoon Oromoo gaggeeffamaa jiru, waan ykn rakkoo keessa keenyatti nu mudatee jiruun madaalamee, lakkii Qabsoon keenya duubatti harkifame ykn waa tokkollee hin hojjanne , jennee kan goolabnu yoo ta’e, dogoggora keessa jirra. Waan nu mudataa jiru hundi isaa, kan addunyaan keessa dabartee fi rakkoo qabsoo keessatti isaan mudate ykn dogoggora keessa dabran irraa baratanii , adeemsa isaanii gama hundaa sirreeffatanii injifannoo goonfachuu isaanii wayita ilaallu, dhugumayyuu haalli keessa keenyatti umame ,waan sirraa’uu ykn hiikamuu hin dandeenyedha jennee,  madaallii Qabsoo keenya isa dhumaa taasisu akka hin dandeenye hubachuun rakkisaa hin ta’u. haqi tokko garuu waan irraa barannee jirru hedduu ta’ee, sirreeffachuuf yeroo fudhachuun isaa hanqina jennee fudhachuu dandeenya. Keessattu yeroo amma keessa jirru kanatti.

Global Voices: Stemming the African brain drain – out of 3700 Medical Doctors on 700 stay

Oromia: A group of men carry a malaria victim, seriously ill, to get medicine from the nearest town, over 15km away, but no doctor is there

January 29, 2014 (Times Colonist) — Last year the Canadian health-care system managed to save $400 million — by poaching trained doctors from the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world.

A recent study by the University of Ottawa indicates that even as Canadian aid programs help Africa to build better health-care systems, our health-care system is taking away their doctors.

According to Canada-based CUSO International, between 1990 and 2006, Ethiopia trained 3,700 doctors. Only 700 of them stayed to work there. Africa’s health-care system isn’t the only sector hemorrhaging skilled workers — there are more African-born engineers and scientists living in Canada and the U.S. than in all of Africa.

Police investigating alleged abduction of two Ethiopians in Nairobi

January 29, 2014, Nairobi, Kenya (Standard Digital) : Kenyan police are investigating alleged abduction of two top officials of Ethiopia’s Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) from outside a popular restaurant in Upper Hill, Nairobi.

The two who were identified as Mr Sulub Ahmed and Ali Hussein were members of the ONLF negotiation team that was in Nairobi for a proposed third round of talks. Other officials said the two were members of ONLF central committee.

ONLF officials who asked not to be named claimed security agencies from Ethiopia and Kenya were involved in the kidnapping. They had been invited for a lunch date at a restaurant near TSC headquarters on Sunday afternoon when they were abducted by men who were in three waiting cars.

One of the cars, a black Toyota Prado was seized and detained at the Turbi police station on Monday but the two were missing amid speculation they had been taken across to Ethiopia. Moyale OCPD Tom Atuti said there had been complaints of abduction of the two officials but they were yet to confirm who were behind it.

Ibsa Maadhee Biiftuu Barii Jidduu Galeessa Oromiyaa Irraa Kenname

Hin Sobamnu Fakkaataa Goobanaa Daaccetiin, yeroo ammaa maqaa ABOtin eegalee maqaa ADO moggaafatee saba oromoo bittaa irratti jabeessuuf motummaa wayyaaneetti firooma tahee sammuu uummata oromoof asii fi achi laaqaa kan jiru,oromoo kaayyoo hin jijjiirree fi dhaaba kaayyoo isaa ganamaatti cichee qabsoo irra jiru humna isaa laaffisuuf kae jiru kana irratti hundoofnee nuti maadheen Iftuu Barii siyaasni diinaan wal qabatee mala daldalaan hidhannoo uummata oromoo gabrummaatti hambisuuf kae kana dura dhaabbachuuf sababa godhachuudhaan hara Amajjii 27 wal geenyee ibsaa fi kaayyoo keenya

The Ever-increasing Crime of TPLF/EPRDF Brutal regime

By Getinet Dinkayehu | Januray 27, 2014

The continuous arrests, detention, torture and disappearance of people in Oromia should indeed be a cause for concern to every Oromo people living in the country and abroad. The past 22 years have been the most painful period in Oromia. A week hardly passes without someone being picked up and detained by the TPLF security agents for one unexplained reason or another. The Last couple of weeks I have received a lot of messages from Oromo nationalists residing in western parts of Oromia through my emails, which I preferred not to mention their names here because of their security. Here is the message I received from one friend in “Afaan Oromo” and I wanted to put it in English as follows; “I am in deep tensions and annoyed because of the case associated with my family. My father was a respected businessman in our local area. Now about two weeks are passed since my father left his home and his whereabouts still unknown. Following his disappearance the TPLF Trojan horse better known as OPDO imprisoned one of my family members and coercing to reveal where my father is.

South Sudan Rebels Say Fighting Has Worsened Since Cease-Fire

January 27, 2014 (Bloomberg) — Rebels say fighting in South Sudan has intensified since a cease-fire that was intended to suspend a five-week conflict that has killed thousands of people and driven half a million from their homes.

Government forces allied with fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement, or Jem, “wiped out everything” when they burned administrative buildings and nearby villages in Koch County in the Unity region today, Lul Ruai Koang, a spokesman for the insurgents, said in a phone interview from Nairobi, Kenya.

“It has flared up, it has actually intensified,” he said about the fighting since a truce came into effect on the evening of Jan. 24. “I think the government wanted to take advantage of the cessation of hostilities to encroach on our territory.”

US Congress against Land Grabs-Related Forced Evictions in Ethiopia

January 27, 2014

Oakland, CA – In a historic move, the US Congress has taken a stance on land grabs-related human rights abuses in Ethiopia. The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill contains provisions that ensure that US development funds are not used to support forced evictions in Ethiopia.

The bill prevents US assistance from being used to support activities that directly or indirectly involve forced displacement in the Lower Omo and Gambella regions. It further requires US assistance in these areas be used to support local community initiatives aimed at improving livelihoods and be subject to prior consultation with affected populations. The bill goes further and even instructs the directors of international financial institutions to oppose financing for any activities that directly or indirectly involve forced evictions in Ethiopia.

In the company of Oromiya region wolves

January 27, 2014 (Financial Times) — I stood in my room in bathing trunks, looking out over the lake 100 metres away, anticipating the feel of the cool water on my skin.

There was just one small problem: the large, male Anubis baboon blocking my door. He was being groomed by a female. I tapped on the glass and did a little theatrical cough. Our eyes locked. He rolled back his top lip to reveal incisors like daggers. I wanted my swim; he wanted his grooming. They say a baboon can rip a man’s arms out of his sockets. My swim, I decided, could wait.

The Filthy Pond of Corruption That TPLF And Its Authorities Baptized In

By Mekonenn Elalla Fekadu | January 27, 2014

The current dictatorial regime of Ethiopia which imposes the supremacy of one race is making a prominent chapter in the history of the country by destroying public resources and ransacking financial assets. In its twenty-two years of power life, the regime’s administration has been earmarked with two distinctive traits: corruption and laceration of the nation into pieces with sharp blade of race. Right from the onset, TPLF based itself on racial aristocracy, wide spread corruption, and excessive power abuse to safeguard its members who are extravagantly wasting the public resource as personal heritage. As racism and corruption are closely knitted with the authoritarian rule, one can not be explained in the absence of the other. The dictatorial regime of TPLF is simply a Petri dish to cultivate corruption bacteria that destroys the socio political system of the country from top to bottom.

Amhara’s far right Fundamentalist ‘Moresh’ leaders officially declare war on Oromo!

Moderator, Sidama National Regional State Information Net Work

January 25, 2014

A highly controversial far right fundamentalists Amhara organisation advocating to reclaim its lost hegemony officially declares war on the largest Ethiopia’s Oromo Ethnic nationals, on January 24, 2014 in its officially dispatched press statement in Amharic. Known under its Amharic name ‘Moresh Wogene Amhara Dirjit’ dispatched its unpalatable, unbalanced, uncivilised and potentially venomous propagandas against the Oromo nationals –erroneously blaming them for causing death and destruction to others Ethiopian nations and nationalities; more essentially accusing them of attempting to destroy the concept of Ethiopianism created by Abyssinian king ‘Atse Menelik II’ who had colonised nations and nationalities of Ethiopia to create today’s Ethiopian Empire’s geo-political shape.

Half An Ethiopian Village At Risk Of Blindness

January 26, 2014, Canada (Updated News) — In the village school of Kuyu, in the heartland of Ethiopia’s Oromia region, more than 20 children put up their hands when asked if anyone in their family has eye problems.

“My mother has lost vision in one eye and the other is causing her big problems,” says one boy. “She can’t see where she’s going.”

Another child says her grandmother is blind in both eyes and is forever pulling out her eyelashes. “She rubs and rubs them,” explains the nine-year-old girl. “They give her terrible pain.”

Mandela’s Long Walk to Ethiopia

A statue of Nelson Mandela outside the South African embassy in Washington DC, US. Photograph by Ted Eytan.

As a founder of the ANC’s armed wing, Mandela was deeply drawn to Ethiopia, specially Oromo. His time there tells us a lot about the young leader.

ARTICLE | 25 JANUARY 2014 | BY JOSEPH HAMMOND

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:

The death of Nelson Mandela last month elicited tributes from around the globe as the life of the man who negotiated with South Africa’s apartheid rulers to bring about majority rule. But despite the commemorations focusing on his capacity for forgiveness in the 1990s, and his ability to make peace with the regime that had imprisoned him, the Mandela of the early 1960s was a very different man. He was a guerrilla, not a peacemaker, and in 1961 had co-founded the armed-wing of the African National Congress (ANC), the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) or ‘Spear of the Nation’.

Credit Suisse approves $1.4 billion loan for Ethiopian Railway project

Ethiopian Railway Project (Photo credit: arup.com)

January 25, 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (EthioSport) - The Harro market railway project secured a loan facility in the past week for USD 1.4 billion from Credit Suisse, a Switzerland-based financial group.

The line stretches from Awash to Weldia, both in the Amhara Regional State, and is part of the national railway project that extends from Mekele, the capital of the Tigray Regional State, to Djibouti, via Semera, in the Afar Regional State.

The loan agreement will be signed on Wednesday (29) by officials from Credit Suisse and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), sources told The Reporter.

Ethiopia: Relatives Fear for Missing Political Prisoners from Jail Ogaden, Reports

The notorious Prison locally known as “Jail Ogaden“, about 80 kilometers Eastern of the city of Harar, has been the scene of repeated atrocities carried out by the Ethiopian prison guards.

January 25, 2014 (Mathaba) — The Prison, which is jailed about several thousand political inmates that live in unbearable living conditions and systemically starved and beaten. This jail ,with its 20 unclean cells overcrowded with prisoners that experience lack of proper jail food services, lack of jail exercise yard, and has only two toilets that serve several thousand prisoners, moreover the Ethiopian guards constantly intimidate, severely torture including beating with strong sticks, electric shock, and suffocating with pouring buckets of ice water over the heads of the prisoners for confession during the interrogation.

Ethiopia rule supreme in Dubai Marathon

Moni Mathews | 24 January 2014 (Khaleej Times)

18-year-old Tsegaye Mekonnen Asefa returns best time ever for juniors.

Tsegaye Mekonnen Asefa of Ethiopia, touching the finishing line during the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon at Umm Suqeim Road in Dubai on Friday, January 24, 2014. KT photo by Juidin Bernarrd

Mulu Seboka Seyfu of Ethiopia, touching the finishing line during the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon at Umm Suqeim Road in Dubai on January 24. KT photo by Juidin Bernarrd

Ethiopia claimed the top five positions in the men’s section and the top nine spots in the women’s category in the 15^th Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday.

Kaleessa WBO Hidhannoo Guutuu Waliin Hiriirsanii Karaa Baalee Ganan; Har’a Ammoo Suufii fi Saamsoonaayitaan Karaa Boolee Galan

‘Waraabessi Biyya Isa Hin beekne Dhaqee Kaldhoo Naa Afaa Jedhe’

(Argan Beeko) | Amajji 24, 2014

Mammaaksi akka mata duree barruu kanaatti dhihaate kun dubbii warra ODF ibsuuf karaa gabaabsa. Murni namoota yeroo adda addaatti badii adda addaa raaw’atanii ABO keessaa ari’aman yookiis fottoqanii bahan irraa walitti dhufe kun, daandii faallaa fedhii ummata Oromoo irratti kan argamu tahuun isaa amma hundaafuu ifee jira. Namoonni baay’een dhalachuu murna kanaa waggaa tokko qofatti gabaabsanii hubachuu malu. Haa tahu malee murni kun akka murnaatti dhalachuuf kan karaa eegale waggaa jaha dura. ODF jechuun murna ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhamee bara 2008 keessa ABO irraa fottoqe irraa dhalate. Murna kana gochaa fi kaayyoo isaa irraa ka’uun namoonni baay’een ‘Micciirama’jedhuuni. Ani garuu barruun kun arrabsoo karaa irraa akka hin fakkaanneef jecha maquma isaan moggaafataniin ‘Jijjiirama’ jedhee waamuun filadhe.

Bekele Gerba kept in prison for bureaucratic reasons

January 24, 2014

Ethiopia’s opposition politician Bekele Gerba is not legible for release until next month and may not be released until next year, Horn Affairs learnt.

Bekele Gerba, former dep. Chairperson of Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), was detained in August 27, 2011. He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment on charges of “provocation crimes against the state” and collaborating with the Oromo Liberation Front, an organization designated as terrorist by Ethiopian Parliament.

The sentence was reduced to three years and seven months after Bekele appealed to the Federal Supreme Court.

There have been claims on social media that Bekele was supposed to be released on probation last weekend, but has been kept in prison for bureaucratic reasons.

Public Relations officer of the Federal Prison Administration Commission contradicted the claims.

Addisu Tedros told Horn Affairs today that:

South Sudan, Rebels Sign Cease-Fire

Associated Press (AP), FINFINNE, Ethiopia January 23, 2014

South Sudan’s government and rebels signed a cease-fire deal Thursday that leaders hope will put a pause to five weeks of warfare that has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians.

The peace deal represents the first real progress since political friction turned violent Dec. 15, fueling countrywide battles with ethnic overtones. But questions were immediately raised about whether all fighters in South Sudan would abide by the agreement, and how long others would follow it.

The military spokesman for South Sudan cautioned that a group of rebel fighters from the former vice president’s Nuer ethnic group — thousands of armed youths known as the “White Army” — may not want peace.

Obbo Lenco Lata’s party is registered for 2015 election

Rundassa Asheetee | January 23, 2014

There is no doubt that CIA is crowing victory by obbo Lenco Lata’s party returning to Finfinnee.  Mean time, the TPLF bosses too will be satisfied by the pleasure they harvest from Lenco Lata’s return to Finfinnee.  For the CIA, it is a matter of botching an unprecedented opportunity to control the horn of Africa, and for the TPLF, the return of Lenco Lata’s party is a matter of gaining more legitimacy that it is a democratic government with an Oromo president and a Walayita prime minister.  Obviously no other governments of empire Ethiopia had ever installed two fake men in power, one from the marginalized majority Oromo, and the other from the most demeaned and looked down upon small tribe known as Walayita. 

Ethiopia Has a Terrible Human Rights Record – Why Is the West Still Turning a Blind Eye?

By Eleanor Ross, Writer and journalist based in London

January 23, 2014 (The Huffington Post) — Some disappeared, others were given lengthy prison sentences. One thing all thirty men arrested in 2012 in Ethiopia had in common was that they had criticised the state and the policies of the former Premier, Meles Zenawi.

And yet last week Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a group of Japanese business leaders met with the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn to discuss further support for Ethiopia at “government and private sector level.”

The former Meles Zenawi was a staunch supporter of American counter-terrorism policy while at the same time overseeing a country with a violent human rights record.

Waamicha Kabaja Guyyaa WBO, Washington, DC, Amajjii 25, 2014.

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Move over quinoa, Ethiopia’s teff poised to be next big super grain

Rich in calcium, iron and protein, gluten-free teff offers Ethiopia the promise of new and lucrative markets in the west

by Claire Provost and Elissa Jobson in Addis Ababa

Mounds of teff dry in fields in Ethiopia. The gluten-free grain is used to make flour for injera, the national dish. Photograph: Julio Etchart/Alamy

January 23, 2014 (The Guardian) — At Addis Ababa airport, visitors are greeted by pictures of golden grains, minute ochre-red seeds and a group of men gathered around a giant pancake. Billboards boast: “Teff: the ultimate gluten-free crop!”

Ethiopia is one of the world’s poorest countries, well-known for its precarious food security situation. But it is also the native home of teff, a highly nutritious ancient grain increasingly finding its way into health-food shops and supermarkets in Europe and America.

Teff’s tiny seeds – the size of poppy seeds – are high in calcium, iron and protein, and boast an impressive set of amino acids.

Quick peace eludes S. Sudan leaders, despite Army victories

A splintering military and deep-seated rivalries among former adversaries are hobbling efforts to reach a ceasefire at sputtering talks in neighboring Ethiopia.

By Will Davison and Jason Patinkin

January 23, 2014 (Christian Science Monitor) – The month-old civil conflict in South Sudan has claimed some 10,000 lives, with major towns razed to the ground and half a million people displaced. Amid the fighting, negotiators have been holding peace talks in neighboring Ethiopia.

Ethiopian AMISOM Membership Scrutinized

Ethiopian troops in Baidoa in 2012
Ethiopian troops have been in and out of Somalia for many years

January 23, 2014 (VOA News) — A former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia says he thinks it’s a “mistake” for Ethiopian troops to join the AMISOM force in Somalia. AMISOM is the African Union Mission in Somalia.

David Shinn is an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He said it could be of particular concern “if Ethiopian forces are expected to go beyond the immediate Ethiopia / Somalia border area. Everyone knows that they have been crossing the border into Somalia for some time now confronting al-Shabab forces or any hostile forces for that matter.”

AMISOM has driven al-Shabab from the capital Mogadishu, but the militant group still controls areas of the country.

7-Eleven Store clerk, Yosef Tulu, robbed and killed in Garland convenience store

by MARCUS MOORE and SEBASTIAN ROBERTSON

Convenience store clerk Yosef Tulu was murdered during a robbery at a 7-Eleven store in the 2500 block of Firewheel Parkway in Garland on January 21, 2014

January 21, 2014, GARLAND Texas (WFAA ABC) — Police in Garland say a store clerk found dead Tuesday morning inside a convenience store was shot multiple times.

According to investigators, the victim was found by a delivery man inside a 7-Eleven store at 2509  Firewheel Parkway just after 3:30 a.m. Police say the victim was Yosef Tulu, a 31-year-old man from Dallas.

Garland police said surveillance cameras captured the shooting, but the shooter’s face was covered. Video shows him enter the store with a rifle and then moments later run out with a bag in hand. Police say the gunman robbed the store and fled the scene.

S Sudan rebel-held town of Bor destroyed

January 20, 2014, Bor (AP)- Bor is a ghost town. Every shop is looted and empty. Bodies lie on the ground, and English-language graffiti curses the ethnic group of the South Sudanese president.

Weellistuu Almaaz Tafarraa Isin Yaamaa Jirti

(Oromedia, 20 Amajjii 2014) Weellistuu Almaaz Tafarraa haalan dhukkubsatee tajaajila wal’aansaaf kan oolu gargaarsa lubbuu ishii baraaru akka barbaadaa jirtu gabaafame.

Maddeen keenya Oromiyaa Bahaa irraa akka gabaasanitti, Almaaz Tafarraa yeroo ammaa kanatti dhukkuba ulfaataan qabamtee rakkina guddaa keessatti argamti.

Baroota dheeraaf Afaan Oromoon weellisaa kan jirtu Artisti Almaaz Tafarraa, seenaa muuziqaa Oromoo keessatti hojii gurguddaa hojjachuun kan beekamtuu dha.

Akak gabaasaan keenya ibsetti,  hundeeffama baandi Afran Qalloo irraa kaassee haga ammaatti keeysaafuu baroota afaan Oromoon wallisuu fi dubbachuun raadiyoo fi kaaseeta cabsa ja’emee ture keessatti hojii ummata Oromoo boonsu hojajchuun kan beekamtuu dha.

ሌንጮ ባቲ “ኦቦ ሌንጮ ፊንፊኔ አልገቡም፤ ኖርዌይ ነው ያሉት፤ በቅርቡ በግልጽ እንገባለን” ሲሉ የአዲስ አድማስን ዘገባ አስተባበሉ

(ዘ-ሐበሻ) የኦሮሞ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ግምባር የሕዝብ ግንኙነት ኃላፊ አቶ ሌንጮ ባቲ ከዘ-ሐበሻ ጋር በስልክ ባደረጉት ቃለ ምልልስ የድርጅታቸው መሪ አቶ ሌንጮ ለታ አዲስ አድማስ ጋዜጣ ዛሬ እንደጻፈው ኢትዮጵያ አልገቡም፤ ኖርዌይ ነው ያሉት አሉ። ዛሬ ኦቦ ሌንጮ ባቲን ኖርዌይ ደውዬ በስልክ አዋርቻቸዋለሁ ያሉት አቶ ሌንጮ ኢትዮጵያ የምንገባው በድብቅ ሳይሆን በግልጽ ነው ብለዋል። ድርጅታችን ሃገር ቤት ገብቶ መታገልን የወሰነው አሁን አይደለም ያሉት አቶ ሌንጮ ባቲ በቅርቡ ኢትዮጵያ እንደሚገቡ፤ የአዲስ አድማስ ወሬ መሠረተ ቢስ ነው ሲሉ አስታውቀዋል።

ከዘ-ሐበሻ ጋር ያደረጉትን አጭር ቃለ ምልልስ ለማድመጥ ይኸው ሊንኩ

የአዲስ አድማስ ጋዜጣ እንደወረደ ዘገባ የሚከተለው ነው፡-

በኢትዮጵያ መንግስት “ሽብርተኛ ተብሎ የተሰየመው የኦሮሞ ነፃ አውጪ ግንባር /ኦነግ/ ከፍተኛ አመራር የነበሩት አቶ ሌንጮ ለታ፣ አዲስ ያቋቋሙትን ፓርቲ ይዘው ሰላማዊ መንገድ ለመታገል አዲስ አበባ መግባታቸውን ምንጮች ገለፁ፡፡

No universal Ethiopian hero or history: a rejoinder to Al Mariam

January 20, 2014 (OPride) – Menelik II, Ethiopia’s brutal 19th century king, has made a sudden return to the Ethiopian media spotlight over the last two months. Much has been written, from opposing viewpoints, in connection with a centennial intended to mark the 100th year of his death.

By Buri Waddesso

In his latest, rather nauseatingly lengthy, foray into the polarizing and heated debate about the king, Alemayehu G Mariam, who teaches politics atCalifornia State University, tried to recount Menelik’s “many accomplishments” and dismiss Menelik’s detractors as a deluded, irrational, and unenlightened bunch undeserving of being heard.

In a convoluted effort to rationalize his fetish for the greatest murderer of the Oromo and South, Al Mariam accused those he disagreed with of being government puppets. As a critic of the current dictatorial Ethiopian regime, for much longer time than Al Mariam, I would like to point out the follies of the likes of Al Mariam in trying to present a sanitized version of Menelik and the long past, which they desperately strive to resurrect to replace Ethiopia’s dismal present. 

Full Speech of the OLF Representative, Dr. Shigux Geleta, on the Frankfurt Horn of African Solidarity Conference (Jan. 4, 2014)

Amajjii/January 20, 2014 ·                                                                                                Finfinne Tribune |

The Frankfurt Horn of African Solidarity Conference (January 4, 2014)

Dear Mr. Chairman,

Dear Honorable Representatives of the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), and beloved members of the Oromo, Ogadenian and Eritrean communities as a whole! It is a great privilege and honor for me to be among you today representing the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).  First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Organizing Committee for having organized such a timely and important conference supposed to assess the social, political and economic situations of the Horn of Africa with a special emphasis on the Ethiopian empire.

Which country has the healthiest diet? Netherlands takes the number one spot – while the U.S. doesn’t even make the top 20

• The rankings are based on the food availability, affordability, quality, and the rate of diet-related illnesses in each country
• The Netherlands, France and Switzerland are the best places to eat
• Chad, Angola and Ethiopia are the worst countries to eat in
• The UK came 13th in the rankings, and the U.S. came 21st

The Netherlands was the best place to eat because the food is affordable and nutritionally diverse

By EMMA INNES

January 16, 2014, UK (Daily Mail) — The Netherlands is the best place in the world to eat, according to new research.

In contrast, people in Chad are the worst off when it comes to their food consumption.

The UK only made number 13 in the survey while the U.S. came in at 21 on the table of the best countries to eat in terms of nutritional value and availability.

Manni adabaa bakka yakkamaan itti amala isaarraa sirratu dhamoo,kan biraa?

Ittaanaa Guuttataa                                                                                          | Amajji 17, 2014 

Seenaa misooma impaayera itiyoophiyaa keessatti, erga mootummaan wayyaanee gara aangootti dhufe bara 1983 asitti jijjiiramni addaa ta’eera yoo jedhame ragaan kanaa firootaafi miseensota waayyaanee qofa. Qotee bulaan ooyiruusaarraa beebyaa tokko malee ijaarsi gamoowwanii, daandiiwwaniifi kkf dhugaatti saffiseera. Hireen qotee bultoota kanaas ilmaan isaanii waliin daandii bukkee ta’aanii harka isa ol darbuufi gad bu’uu ilaaluu, jecha dhaga’ee inbeenneen buusii kadhachuu, gaddee kofalchiisuu, rakkatee duuromsuu dha. Manneetiin barnootaa fi yaalaa, bu’araaleen misoomaafi wirtuuwwan hayyootniifi dargaggootni Oromoo masaanuuwwan wayyaanee akka korbeessa re’ee itti hidhaman manneetiin adabaa sadarkaa isaanii hineegganne haalaan baballataniiru. Abishaalichi mootummaa wayyaanee MB 1fi manneetii adabaa 2, kellaawwan fayyaa 2fi wirtuulee ilmi oromoo itti mirga namummaa isaa sarbamu baballisuun karooraa guddinaafi tiraanisfoormeeshinii keessatti xiyyeeffannaa addaa argateera. Odeeffaannoowwan garaagaraa akka eeranitti Impaayera Itiyoophiyaa kessatti kan hidhamee jiruu 86% Ilmaan oromoo ta’uun isaa kan isaaf falmuu tokko ille akka hin jirree ta’uusa ni ragaasiisa.

Diddaan Gootota Barattoota Oromoo Yuniversitii Jimmaa Jabaachuu Irraan Wayyaaneen Doorsisa Eegaluun Gabaafame

Gabaasa: Amajjii 15/2014 Yuunivarsiitii Jimmaatti baratootni
Oromoo nagaan humnota tikaa fi poolisotaan doorsifamaa jirachuun ibsame jira. Haala kanaan Poolisotni Mooraa Yuunivarsiitii Jimmaa fi bulchitootni dabballoonni Wayyaanee Mooraa Yuunivarsiitii Jimmaa keessa jiran baratoota Oromoo sadii irratti beeksisa waajjira dhimma nageenya poolisa mooraa yuunivarsiititti akka dhiyaattan jechuun baratoota Medicine lama fi barataa Afaan Oromoo Folklorii tokko irratti beeksisa baasuun bulchiinsi wajjira poolisii Mooraa Yuunivarsiitii Jimmaa kan baratoota Oromoo dararuu qofaaf dhaabbate, ni arii’amtu jechuun balleessa tokko malee baratoota Oromoo doorsisaa jiraachuun gabaafamera. baratootni haala kanaan dorsifamaa jiran:

EBS TV: An Abyssinianism Version of the so Called ‘Nations and Nationalities’ (EPRDF) Government

By Yahya Jamal                                                             | January 15, 2014

While I was considering writing this short piece, my eyes went instinctively to the TV screen in my room. A controversial song video known as ‘’Tkur Sew’’ was playing on one of Woyyane-controlled media, EBS TV (Ethiopian Broadcasting Service Television). The song ended with a bold title goes,‘’Yehuwalaw keliele aynorim yefitu’’, roughly to say, ‘If there is no past there is no future’.  I was not much embarrassed, even though this event happened only after a week, since the historic #Boycott Bedele Beer victory.  During a short course of the boycott I have realized from different sources that the EPDRF government was not directly against the campaign launched by Oromo youth elites to condemn glorification of Menilik II. Even a number of their recruited agents were working hard in some Diaspora-based e-forums frenziedly to push the quarrel to the boiling point. They have been pretended to be pro rights of nations and nationalities by countering the Neftegna element’s bid to canonize Menilik’s war against the then sovereign southern nations of the empire. One who witnessed this stance might be embarrassed when he/she watch such a paradigm shift event by an EPRDF-controlled media, just after a week.

China condemns Japan leader on visit to Ethiopia

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, sits between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, right, and Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission Erastus Mwencha, left, during Abe’s visit to the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. The visit comes at the end of Abe’s weeklong African tour designed to restore Japan’s global

January 15, 2014, ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — China’s diplomatic assault on Japan’s prime minister moved to another continent Wednesday, as China’s top official at the African Union called the Japanese leader a troublemaker just after his three-country visit to Africa.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Ethiopia over the last week, pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and trying to shore up relations on a continent where China has made deep inroads in recent years.

Abe’s Africa trip follows his visit last month to a World War II shrine in Tokyo that China views as a memorial to war criminals who assaulted the Chinese people.

Xie Xiayoan, China’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and its envoy to the African Union, said Abe’s visit to the Yasakuni Shrine was offensive and he called the prime minister a “troublemaker” in Asia.

Outcome of persecution in Ethiopia: 3,000 to 5,000 Oromo Homeless Kids in Hargeisa

ARE DESPISED AND ABUSED BY JUST ABOUT EVERYONE THEY MEET

By Sean Williams

Mukhtar stands outside the Ethiopian café where he shines shoes every day

January 14, 2014 (Vice) — On an ordinary night, after the sun sets over Hargeisa, Somaliland, Mohamed packs up his shoe-shine kit and heads to the storm drain where he lives when he’s not working. All things considered, it’s a good spot for the 12-year-old to sleep—the discarded snack wrappers and plastic bottles help keep him warm, and when the sun creeps in each morning the shadow of a nearby skyscraper shields him from the heat.

The skyscraper, which was built in 2012 and houses a company whose business is to bring high-speed internet from neighboring Djibouti, is one of the many symbols of Hargeisa’s relative wealth. The city itself is the crown jewel of Somaliland, a self-declared republic in northwest Somalia.