Ethiopia: Arrests Upstage Kerry Visit

9 Bloggers, Journalists Held Before US Official Arrives
(Nairobi, April 28, 2014) – The Ethiopian authorities should immediately release six bloggers and three journalists arrested on April 25 and 26, 2014, unless credible charges are promptly brought, Human Rights Watch said today.
United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who is scheduled to visit Ethiopia beginning April 29, should urge Ethiopian officials to unconditionally release all activists and journalists who have been arbitrarily detained or convicted in unfair trials, Human Rights Watch said. The arrests also came days before Ethiopia is scheduled to have its human rights record assessed at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s universal periodic review in Geneva on May 6.
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LAFEE OROMOO CACCABSITEE NYAATAA?*

Taammanaa Bitimaa irraa | Ebla 16, 2014

QALBEEFFACHIISA: Yaa dubbiftoota walaloo kanaa jaalatamoo fi kabajamoo, walaloon kun bara 2011, ji’a Caamsaa keessa mandheewwan Oromoo kanneen addaddaa irratti baafamee ture. Ani kaleessa mandhee “bilisummaa.com” oggaan banen, kurfeessitoota mandhee tanaatiin ammas deebifamee baafuu isaa arge. Dubbiin ennaa san walaloon kun irratti xiyyeeffame dubbii daran cimtuu, tan lafaa fi lafee uummata keenyaa waan taateef, obboleewwan keenya deebisanii gabbaasani. Akkuma harra mandhee Oromoo isa “gadaa.com” jedhamu irratti dubbiftan, warri abbaa qawwee kunoo ijuma teenya duratti: Aannolee Lammaffaa fi Calanqoo Lammaffaa akka biraatti adeemsisaa jira. Habashoonni Tigraay humna qawwee fi humna abbootii qabeenyaa kanneen warra alaatti hirkachuun, Oromiyaa teenya akka dullacha masqalaatti qircatanii qircisiifachaa jiru. Kan nama dhibu warra isaan akka diina tokkoffaatti ilaalaa turan, nafxanyoota haareyyii fi moofeyyii kanneen Habashoota Amaaraa waammachuun, lafa lafee Oromoo tahe: Ambo irraa hamma Malkaa Jabduu fi Dirree Dhawaatti, Jimma irraa hamma Kombolcha Warra Qaalluu fi Baatii isaan Wallo keessaatti saammachaa, warreeni fi firoottan isaanii badhaasaa, waraabeyyii akka isaanii kanneen baargamaatti gurgurachaa jiru. Hubaddhaa! Awwaallan haadholii fi abbootii keenyaatu, dabreeyyuu kan jagnoota keenyaa kan akka Tufaa Munaa, Birraatuu Goolee, Waamii Garoo, Shabbuu Bordee fi Ilaansoo Halloo faatu buqqifamaa jiraa! Laggeeni fi harawwan Oromiyaatu summii fi xurii-ajaawaa gabroomfatoota Habashaatiin faalamaa jiraa! Daa’immaan Oromootu summii kanan dararamaa jiraa, itti-dabaleetuu dararamuuf deemaa! Yeroon iyyinee iyyadabarsinuu fi, ee akka Oromoota Kurnan Gullallee bara Minilik sanii: “uu uu qabi dhayi” jennu abadan ammuma! Hayyee tokkummaa, tokkummaa! Karaa hundaan ijaaramuu, ijaaramuu! Karaa hundaan hidhachuu, hedhachuu dha mallisaa! Read more…

Oromo Voice Radio broadcast on April 14, 2014

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Looking back into the Oromo history, the case of Gujii-Borana

 By Rundaasaa Asheetee | April 12, 2014

When we look back into the Oromo history, we find several sorrowful chapters of clan conflicts and it’s tragic consequence that we feel today.  To put this conflicts to sleep, the Oromians must understand their own history very well. For example, the Gadaa constitution stipulates that even a criminal will be treated with diginity and respect. That’s where Mogaasaa and Gudifacha becomes very important.

The occasional trouble that our Oromo clans suffer started because of many reasons. Some times when one is temptation to raid Herds of cattle from the other side and the other time when the other side raids settlements. These attitudes may have resulted in serious outbreaks that involve losses of property and life. In general though, in view of the vast territory that the Oromo settled, there had been very little trouble among the Oromo, especially compared to the Habashas conflicts that led to the fight of Gojamee against Gondare, the Tigrai against the Amharas. Read more…

Oromo Farmers, Including 80-Year Old Farmer, Evicted from Ancestral Land – Document Shows Oromo Farmers Evicted from Land in Kilinto, Oromia (Near Akaki)

April 11, 2014 (gadaa) — The TPLF-led Ethiopian Habesha Government controlling Oromia militarily is stepping up its abuse of the Oromo people. Read more…

Britain funds human rights abusers in Ethiopia

• The UK government is providing financial aid to human rights abusers in Ethiopia through funding training paramilitaries, who perpetrate summary killings, rape and torture in the impoverished African country, local media reported. 
  Through its foreign aid budget, the UK government provides financial support to an Ethiopian government security force known as the “special police” as part of its “peace and development programme”, which would cost up to £15 million in five years, The Guardian reported. 
  
  The Department for International Development warned in a leaked document of the "reputational risks” of working with organizations that are “frequently cited in human rights violation allegations", according to the report. 
  
  The Ethiopian government’s counter-insurgency campaign in Ogaden, a troubled region largely populated by ethnic Somalis is being enforced by the 14,000-strong special police. 
  
  This is while police forces are repeatedly accused by Human Rights Watch of serious human rights abuses. 
  
  Claire Beston, the Amnesty International's Ethiopia researcher, said it was highly concerning that Britain was planning to work with the paramilitary force.

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sorus http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/09/357842/britain-funds-criminals-in-ethiopia/

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Some Policy Considerations Regarding the Ethiopian Outmigration

By Seid Hassan and Minga Negash | April 4, 2014

Ethiopia claims that it has enjoyed double-digit real economic growth for about a decade and that it is a stable nation. But the massive outmigration of its people points to a different reality

IN OUR 19 December 2013 article entitled ‘Explaining the Ethiopian outmigration: incentives or constrains’ we alerted readers and policy makers in Ethiopia about the push, pull and mediating factors of outmigration in general and outlined the factors as they relate to Ethiopia. In this short article we aim to discuss further the incompatibility between macroeconomic growth and outmigration and close the piece by outlining potential mitigation strategies.

By the end of 2013 and early 2014 the world witnessed yet another shame of Ethiopians. Voices of men, women and children in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Southern Europe and Southern Africa are instantly being transmitted across the globe through the use of advanced information technology. Saudi Arabia alone deported at least 165,000 Ethiopians within the span of few weeks. Demonstrations were held in Kuwait and Israel against African immigrants. The European Union has erected various forms of fences against immigrants from Africa. AsEmnet Assefa of Addis Standard, a journalist in one of the local newspaper noted, “[o]ver the last few years, news of young Ethiopian men and women found dead inside jam-packed containers loaded on heavy duty trucks has become a routine media exercise both locally and in many parts of the continent.” Read more…

Urban Centers in Oromia: Consequences of Spatial Concentration of Power in Multinational Ethiopia

Professor Asafa Jalata, University of Tennessee – Knoxville

Abstract

This paper examines the essence and characteristics of cities and urban centers in Oromia and the major consequences of the centralization and spatial concentration of Habasha (Amhara-Tigray) political power in a multinational Ethiopia. It speci!cally demonstrates how the integration of indigenous Oromo towns into the Ethiopian colonial structure and the formation of garrison and non-garrison cities and towns in Oromia consolidated Habasha political domination over the Oromo people. Ethiopian colonial structure limited the access of Oromo urban residents, who are a minority in their own cities and towns, to institutions and opportunities, such as employment, education, health, mass media and other public services. In addition to exclusion, the Oromos have been prevented from developing autonomous institutions, organizations, culture, and language, and have been subordinated to the institutions and organizations of the Habasha colonial settlers in their own cities, towns, and homeland.

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