Xalayaa Banaa Obbo Leencoo Lataa fi Dr. Diimaa Nagahoof

Raammis Mogoriin                                                       (kan barreeffame Caamsaa 5, 2012) 

Manguddoota keenya, duraan dursee kabajaa fi jaalala isiniif qabu ibsachuu barbaada. Qaama qaroo sabaa taatanii sabboonummaa Oromoo sadarkaa kanatti ol guddusuu keessatti warra lubbuun jiru keessaa qooda leencaa waan qabdaniifis galanni isiniif qabu guddaa dha. Jireenya keessan gara fuulduraa keessattis kabajaa, jaalalti fi mararfannoon ummata Oromoo baláa akka isin irraa hin fagaanne jabeesseetiin abdadha. Hayyummaa fi maqaan keessan gurra firaa fi alagaa cufaa keessatti beekamu kun ummata Oromootiif akkuma duraaniitti siidaa tokkummaa tahee itti fufuu malee summii garaagarummaatti akka hin jijjiiramnees hawwiin tiyya oláantuu dha.

Obbo Leencoo fi Dr. Diimaa, hawwii fi jaalala isiniif qabu irraa hagana eega ibsee booda gara dhimma xalayaa banaa tana isinii barreessuuf na dirqeetitti haa cehu. Akkuma quba qabnu kaluu tana oduun mooraa qabsoo Oromoo fi hawaasa Oromoo keessatti owítee deemaa jirtu dhimma keessan lamaan taatee jirti. Oduun maqaa teessan dhawattee deemaa jirtu tun daranuu Oromoo gargar oofaa jiraachuu isii dha tu yaaddoo natti naqe. Hanga ammaatitti gama keessan irraa labsa ifaa wahii miidiyaa tahe wayii irratti hin dhageenye tahu illee, wanni isin walgahii Ebla 21 fi 22, 2012 Oslo irratti geggeessitaniin akka dubbattan himamu garuu bifoota adda addaatti hiikamee ummata keessa deemaa ti jira. Namuutuu akkuma hubannoo mata mataa isaatitti hiikkatee duula walirratti baneera. Kun yaaddessaa dha. Duula Oromoon Oromoo irratti banee wal nyaatu kanaaf maqaan keessan kabajamaan sababa tahuu tu na yaaddessa. Ani qaamaan walgahii teessan san irra hin turre. Kanaafuu waan dubbatamaa jiru keessaa kam tu dhugaa, kam tu dharaa adda baafadhee dubbachuun na dhiba. Gabaabaatti garuu wanniin hubadhe, dhaaba Oromoo haaraya jaartanii biyyattiin galuufi kan jedhu. Kanuma irra dhaabadheen waan natti dhagahamu dubbadha. Read more…

Abebe Gellaw a journalist from Ethiopia, protests against Meles Zenawi

May 18, 2012 – Abebe Gellaw a journalist from Ethiopia, protests against Meles Zenawi during the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security May 18, 2012 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Yahoo Photo

Abebe Gellaw says very loud “Meles Zenawi is a murderer!”

Record Number of Africans, Most from Ethiopia, Flee to Yemen

In this image released by UNHCR, unidentified refugees rest on an undisclosed beach in Yemen in March 2007. Many Ethiopians and Somalis hire smugglers to get them to Yemen. However, many are robbed, abused and some even thrown overboard. The smugglers’ bo

May 18, 2012 (VOA News) – A record number of African refugees and migrants have arrived in Yemen this year. Most are from Ethiopia. U.N. refugee agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic says more people are crossing the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to get to Yemen.

“There are now more than 43,000 people – migrants and refugees – from the Horn of Africa who have reached Yemen during the first four months of this year. We are looking at the record figures compared to the same period last year or any other year before,” he said.

For the same period last year, 13,000 fewer people made the journey.

“Last year, we have about 103,000 people arriving from the Horn of Africa into Yemen and that was the record year. Now should this trend of a high number of arrivals continue, this year, 2012, could sadly become another record year,” he said. Read more…

Oromia: Seife Nebelbal Radio Program, May 18, 2012

Washington DC: Oromo Community Organization’s Appeal Letter to President Obama on the Growing Repression and Human Rights Violations by the Ethiopian Government

May 16, 2012

His Excellency Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Subject: Oromo Community Organization’s Appeal Letter to President Obama on the Growing Repression and Human Rights Violations by the Ethiopian Government

Dear Mr. President Barack Obama:

I am writing this appeal letter on behalf of the Oromo Community Organization (OCO) of the Washington DC Metropolitan Area to express my deep concern about Human Rights Violations against Oromos and other Ethiopian people by the Ethiopian Government. OCO is a non-profit community organization established in 1988 to assist Oromos who came to the United States to smoothly transition, integrate, and become productive citizen in the United States of America. The Oromo people constitute the single largest national group in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Despite this, Oromos are subjected to indiscriminate killings, imprisonments and torture pursued by the successive Ethiopian regimes. Read more…

Institutions Urge Obama to Address ‘Land Grabbing’ Issue in Ethiopia

May 17 (New Business Ethiopia) – The united States-based Oakland Institute and the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SNME) call up oon President Obama to talk on the issue with Ethiopian prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who is expected to arrive Washington today.

The two institutions argue that large-scale land investments, which is often characterized as land grabbing, are violating human rights and undermining food security in Ethiopia. In an Open Letter to President Obama, the Oakland Institute and SMNE are delivering a petition signed by over 8,000 supporters of the indigenous and local communities of Gambella, Ethiopia – 70,000 people in all – who are being forcibly relocated to make land available for investment in agriculture.

Prime Minister Meles with four African leaders are set to discuss food security issues with president Obama in Camp David on May 19, 2012. Read more…

Tarkaanfiilee ummataa fi humna addaa WBOn fudhataman

Madda Oduu ABO/MOA/Caamsaa 15,2012

Caasaalee mootummaa nageenya ummataa tiksuuf dirqamni irra jiru keessaa tokko raayyaa poolisaa ti. Haa tahu malee motummootni Itophiyaa hundi humna kana akka sirna isaanii tiksuu fi tajaajilutti ijaarratuun dirqamni polisaa nageenya ummataa tiksuu irra kan ummata hiraarsuu fi dararu taasifamaa yoona gahe. Mootummaan Wayyaanee caasaalee mootummaa aangoo isaa ittiin tikfataa jiru keessaa tokko humna polisaa akka tahes ni beekama. Read more…

OROMO COMMUNITY IRELAND – HAWAASA OROMOO AYERLAAND

Trials of Politicians, Journalists Test Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Law

May 17, ADDIS ABABA (VOA News) - In Ethiopia, a series of high-profile trials is being closely watched as a test of recently-enacted anti-terrorism legislation. A three-judge federal panel is hearing the trials of as many as 150 people arrested on terrorism-related charges last year, including prominent politicians and journalists.

Almost every week for the past few months, a small group of journalists and diplomats has  gathered at Addis Ababa’s Lideta federal court complex to attend terrorism trials.

The most high-profile is the case of journalist Eskinder Nega, recent winner of the PEN America “Freedom to Write” Award, and Andualem Arage, who had been one of the rising stars in Ethiopia’s political opposition.  They are accused of collaborating with the outlawed Ginbot Seven (May 15th) political party to carry out terrorist attacks.

U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Donald Booth was in the courtroom last week when a verdict in the case was due, but the judges postponed the announcement till mid-June, saying they needed more time.

Among the other trials before the court was the case of two Swedish journalists captured in the restive Ogaden region in the company of members of the outlawed Ogaden National Liberation Front, or ONLF.  The journalists were convicted of supporting terrorism, and given 11-year prison terms. Read more…

Ethiopia, Sudan extradition agreement condemned

May 17 (The Africa Report) – Ethiopia and Sudan on Wednesday signed an extradition agreement in Addis Ababa but there are fears that this may be a ploy to persecute Ethiopian opposition exiles in the neighbouring country.

The agreement is a follow up to another one between the two countries in December 2011 in which it was agreed not to host opposition figures from their respective countries.

Thousands of Ethiopian opposition members sought refuge in Sudan following the 2005 election, which was characterised by violence, which claimed almost 200 lives.

At the beginning of 2012, the international community criticised Sudan after it deported hundreds of Ethiopian opposition figures.

The Berlin-based Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners (SOCEPP) alleged in March 2012 that Sudanese police had raided houses and rounded up Ethiopians in Omdurman and many parts of the capital, Khartoum, for forcible deportation. Read more…

Ethiopia to export half a million maids annually to Saudi Arabia

May 16, 2012 (Durame) — Ethiopia commenced sending 45,000 Ethiopian housemaids per month to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), an Ethiopian official said by phone today.

The controversial recruitment strategy will send 500,000 Ethiopian women annually to a country long known for abusing housemaids and foreign nationals in the strict Sharia-governed Kingdom.

Amid tougher restrictions for housemaids working in KSA by the Philippines, Indian, Sri Lankan, Indonesian and Kenyan governments, Ethiopian housemaids have been in high demand by families in Saudi Arabia.

With little to no support from the Government of Ethiopia, many Ethiopian women are often exploited by Saudi families, working grueling 16-hour days and having their passports and earnings withheld to prevent them from running away. Read more…

Another Indian horticulture farm to sprout in Ethiopia this year

Addis Ababa, May 17 (NY Daily News) — A second Indian company, Esimo Flower & Agro Industries Plc, is investing $100 million in Ethiopia to produce flowers, fruits, and vegetables for the European, Russian and Middle Eastern markets.

The company has acquired a 71-hectare farm in Debre Brehan, northeast of capital Addis Ababa. It will start planting flowers in July and has constructed a pack house, where harvested flowers are to be processed for export in 2012, according to Sanjaye Bangali, owner and general manager of Esimo.

Debre Berhan Mayor Getaneh Zeke also confirmed this. Esimo is set to become the second flower farm in Debre Brehan after ASK Flowers and Greens Plc, run by another Indian, Shahab Khan.

Producing flowers is a high-risk but high-profit business and Bengali thinks his company has a good opportunity to succeed within a few years. Read more…

Food security talks must address Africa’s lack of free press

By Mohamed Keita/CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator

May 16, 2012 (Huffington Post) – Timely and accurate information about conditions of drought  and famine in Africa’s Sahel could save lives. But if the press is unable to  report freely, how does a country build consensus on tackling national food  security and ensure that official policies are the result of broad consultation  with all segments of society? What happens when leaders of a nation respond to  this caprice of nature by deliberately downplaying the extent of the crisis,  limiting journalists’ access to sensitive areas, and censoring independent coverage  of the problem, in the name  of protecting the country’s image?

Today, in a public letter,  the Committee to Protect Journalists asked President Obama to consider these  questions as he prepares to host the Group of Eight and discussions  on food security with four leaders from Africa, including Prime Minister  Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia.

Meles has introduced large-scale agribusiness and  land-leasing practices in an effort to increase Ethiopia’s food output. But  without a free press, it’s impossible for citizens, aid groups, or  international donors to contextualize official claims about the impact of these  reforms. Read more…

Ethiopia charges 10 suspected ‘al-Qaeda’ members

Note: The Meles regime is known to bomb itself and blame on others. To extend its life in power, specially at this time, it is doing every thing it can to get support from the West.  This allegation cannot be different. It is very hard to trust the Meles regime at all.   It needs independent and neutral investigation to justify the truth.

Ten suspected Al Qaeda members were on Tuesday been charged for plotting to carry out terror attacks in Ethiopia.

A Kenyan citizen was charged along with 9 Ethiopians after they were arrested last month in the southern parts of Ethiopia on allegations of “organising, providing training and educating recruits with assistance from a East Africa Al-Qaeda group”.

The group were also allegedly in contact with Al-Qaeda militant cells in Kenya, Sudan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

Police recovered email exchanges between the group and the external bodies and this will be used as evidence against them.

Only four of the suspected terrorists appeared in front of the Federal High Court on Tuesday, facing 11 counts of espionage, while the others were charged in absentia. Read more…

U.S. trains African soldiers for Somalia mission

May 16, KAKOLA, Uganda (The Washington Post) — The heart of the Obama administration’s strategy for fighting al-Qaeda militants in Somalia can be found next to a cow pasture here, a thousand miles from the front lines.

Under the gaze of American instructors, gangly Ugandan recruits are taught to carry rifles, dodge roadside bombs and avoid shooting one another by accident. In one obstacle course dubbed “Little Mogadishu,” the Ugandans learn the basics of urban warfare as they patrol a mock city block of tumble-down buildings and rusty shipping containers designed to resemble the battered and dangerous Somali capital.

“Death is Here! No One Leaves,” warns the fake graffiti, which, a little oddly, is spray-painted in English instead of Somali. “GUNS $ BOOMS,” reads another menacing tag. Read more…