Caamsaa 31, 2013 | M. Seenaa Irraa
Afaan Ingilizin Duubisuuf Addana Tuqaa
Duulli Duguungsa Sanyii mootummoota Habashaatiin ummata Oromoo irratti gaggeeffamu tooftaa fi bifti isaa haa geeddaramu malee, jaarraa tokkoo oliif osoo wal irraa hin cinne gaggeeffamaa jira. Akkuma irra deeddeebifamee seenaa keessatti kaafamu Oromoon weerartoota Habashaa osoo ofirraa loluu humna meeshaa hammayyaan caalamee cunqursaa jalatti kufe. Erga gaafa cabee biyyi isaa weeraramee bulchiinsa alagaa jalatti kufee hanga har’aatti tasgabbii argatee hin beeku. Mootummoota humnaan cabsanii isa weeraraniin goochi duguugnsa Sanyii seenaan hin daganne irratti raawwatameera. Loltoota Minilik irraa kaasee hanga hidhattoota Wayyaanee har’aatti. Gochaa gara jabinaan guutame hedduutu Oromoo irratti raawwatame.Kanneen baroota dheeraa dura raawwataman akkuma seenaatti olkaawwannee wantoota bara mootummaa Wayyaanee kana keessa raawwatamanii fi hanga har’aan tanaatti raawwatamaa jiran haa laallu. Continue Reading
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By Dr. Beyan H. Asoba | May 30, 2013
Dear Dr. Fikre Tolossa/Tolassa, Xalayaa Dr. Asobaaf katabame
I was travelling when the open letter your addressed to me appeared on a number of websites and was thus not in the position to respond sooner. In this response, I will address only those aspects of your open letter that personally concern me. The Oromo Democratic Front will have to respond on the general content of your writing.
Dear Dr. Fikre,
Let me start my comment by making a brief observation on how you spell your last name. I checked as many of your published works as possible and they are all signed by Fikre Tolossa. That is how your name appears on your University of Bremen dissertation of 1983 and numerous subsequent publications. And it is also how you spell your name on your Facebook. To my knowledge, it is only in the open letter addressed to me that you not only spelled your name as Fikre Tolassa but also added apparently your grandfather’s name, Jigsa. Continue Reading
May 30, 2013
The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA)would like to express its deep concern regarding the current situation of nine Ethiopian refugees arrested and detained in the neighboring country of Djibouti.
According to HRLHA correspondent in Djibouti, the nine Ethiopian refugees (listed below) were arrested on the 22nd of May, 2013 in front of the UNHCR Office, Djibouti branch, where they had been for the renewal of their refugee identification cards. Until the time of the issuance of this URGENT ACTION, families and friends of those refugees have not been able to see and/or communicate with them since they were arrested and detained. Continue Reading
CAIRO, May 29 (Xinhua) — Egypt’s Foreign Ministry summoned Ethiopian ambassador to Cairo Wednesday to discuss Ethiopia’s recent move of diverting the course of the River Nile for the construction of its Renaissance Dam, state-run Ahram news website reported.
Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Ali al- Hefni and other officials met with Ambassador Mahmoud Dardir to convey Egypt’s rejection of the prior measures taken by Ethiopia to build the dam before reaching an agreement with the downstream countries Egypt and Sudan.
On Tuesday, Ethiopia started diverting the Blue Nile, a tributary of the River Nile, as a first preparatory step for building its aspired Grand Renaissance Dam, the move which raised concerns in Egypt over its share of river water as a downstream country. Continue Reading
Oromo Community Ireland | May 29, 2013
This week African Union (AU) celebrated its Golden Jubilee of what it calls the 50th years of achievement celebration under the headline of strengthening Pan-Africanism and African renaissance. But for the Oromo community in Ireland the story was different. On the day of the African Day Celebration the Oromo’s stall tells a different story, a story that questions the very importance of the existence of the AU; the story that tells the inability of the AU to deal with the issues of its people; the story of Oromo’s years to years true life, the story of slavery in the country the AU celebrate what it says the past good days. Continue Reading
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May 28, 2013 | The Telegraph
By Roger Thurow At an international hunger summit in London next month, experts will seek to tackle the long-term impact of childhood malnutrition and its consequences for struggling nations
People queue at an emergency feeding tent during Ethiopia’s famine in 2003 |
In the first-year classroom of Shemena Godo Primary School, in Boricha, Ethiopia, three dozen children study the alphabet. On a black chalkboard, teacher Chome Muse highlights the letter B and writes the combination with each vowel. Ba, be, bi, bo, bu.
The pupils, crowded two or three to a desk, listen to the sounds. I am watching one boy in particular, Hagirso, who sits at the back of the room. He copies the letters in his tattered notebook and proudly shows me his first attempts at writing, a triumphant milestone in early childhood development. Hagirso, though, is no child. He is 15 years old. I first met him 10 years ago during the Ethiopian famine of 2003. He was in an emergency feeding tent, on the verge of starvation and weighed just 27lb when his father carried him to the clinic. The doctors and aid workers feared he wouldn’t live. Continue Reading
May 28, 2013 | Bloomberg
By William Davison
Ethiopia’s government said it won’t cooperate with a probe into whether the World Bank violated its own policies by funding a program in which thousands of people were allegedly relocated to make way for agriculture investors.
Ethnic Anuak people in Ethiopia’s southwestern Gambella region and rights groups including Human Rights Watch last year accused the Washington-based lender of funding a program overseen by soldiers to forcibly resettle 45,000 households. The Inspection Panel of the World Bank, an independent complaints mechanism, began an investigation in October into the allegations, which donors and the government have denied Continue Reading
Dr Shek Muhammadrashad conducted research in wide range of academic and religious fields. He produced a detailed theological and historical development of Islam in East Africa. He has also written extensively on the History of Horn of Africa especially that of Oromo, Afar and Somali people in relation to the competing Islamic and Christian powers. He spent over 15 years conducting research on the Oromo and Somali languages which later became the focus of his thesis for PhD in linguistic studies which he received from the UK. Continue Reading