Ethiopia: ONLF burns An Ethiopian Army Vehicle , Commander Abdullahi Yassin Says

Commander Abdullahi Yassin

July 12, 2014 (Suna Times) — The Ogaden National Liberation Army’s commander told Qorahay Media that his army burned an Ethiopian military truck, which soldiers were on board in an ambush between Denod and Qorille on Thursday.

Abdullahi Yassin said that the fighting between the Ethiopian soldiers,and the Ogaden Army occurs every time, everywhere in the Ogaden region, and that the number of Liyu Police was reduced in the fight,and now work as guides and interpreters as they know the terrain and the Somali language as well as pointing fingers to individuals that suspected of their family members in the military service of the ONLA.Read more…

Ethiopian maid throws herself over a bridge in Jeddah suicide attempt (s)

June 9, 2014 (Akhbaar24) — Proceeded maid of African nationality to attempt suicide threw herself from the top of a bridge on the road to King Abdullah in Jeddah, today (Sunday), but she was only several injuries quoted on the impact to the hospital.

A media spokesman for the Red Crescent in Mecca that the operations room of the Red Crescent in Jeddah received a report stating the fall of Ethiopian maid nationality of one of the bridges accidentally King Abdullah, which resulted in her injuries and fractures in the limbs and face.

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Ethiopia Recruits Bloggers to Attack Oppositions and the Eritrean Government

ESAT | June 7, 2014

Regime in Paranoia? From Jamming satellite transmissions, blocking websites, criminalise using Skype and arresting bloggers to recruiting paid online attackers and arresting bloggers to training paid social media recruits?

IN an attempt to reduce online criticisms and shower positive image of itself, the Ethiopian Government recently started to train and recruit paid attackers on the web to anything critical of its administration, the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT) reported.

In the the second round of new recruits, 235 bloggers were trained in Adama town, focusing on how to shape public opinion on Facebook and other social media technologies by posting comments and documents that support the regime.

The training was given to selected people from different ethnic groups who support the regime, and that the trainees report directly to government officials, ESAT said.

So far, the trainees have opened 2,350 Facebook, Twitter and blog accounts to show the Ethiopian regime in a favorable light, and to criticize anti-government articles, websites, the Ethiopian opposition and the Eritrean government.

With a dismal one percent of people having access to the internet in Ethiopia, the likely intended target of the regime’s online strategy are the Ethiopian and Eritrean Diasporas, an observer noted.

Many Saudi-deported Ethiopians ‘caught trying to return’

In December of last year, Saudi deported more than 160,000 Ethiopians working in the kingdom on grounds that they lacked the necessary documentation

May 21, 2014 (World Bulletin) – Ethiopian authorities have been alarmed by a surge in the number of people previously deported by Saudi Arabia who are trying to return to the oil-rich kingdom despite a government ban on traveling there for work.

Over 1200 would-be migrants were arrested recently as they tried to cross the border into Somaliland, from which traffickers had promised to take them to Yemen by boat and from there to Saudi Arabia, Tassew Chalew, Harari regional state police commander, told Anadolu Agency.
“They were caught in the 30 days since a day before,” Chalew said. “Just three days ago, their number stood at 700.” Read more…

Diaspora speaks for deliberately silenced Oromos Ethiopian government responds to UN review

By Amy Bergquist, The Advocates for Human Rights

May 20, 2014 (Twin Cities Daily Planet) — When students in Ethiopia started protesting last month against the Ethiopian Government’s proposal to annex territory from the state of Oromia to facilitate the expansion of the capital city Addis Ababa, diasporans mobilized to show their solidarity. As federal “Agazi” security forces cracked down, opening fire on peaceful protesters, placing students on lock-down in their dormitories, and conducting mass arrests, Oromos around the world staged rallies and hunger strikes to raise international awareness and to call on the governments of the countries where they live to withhold aid and put pressure on the Ethiopian Government to respect human rights. Read more…

XALAYAA BARATTOOTA OROMOO MANA HIDHAA JIRAN IRRAA DHUFE

“Amma Maaloo Dammaqaa Yaa Ilmaan Oromoo!!!!” Caamsaa 20, 2014

Kan barreeffame Caamsaa 16, 2014 –Egaa amma maaloo dammaqaa yaa ilmaan Oromoo. Ijoolleen Oromoo hedduun isaanii mana hidhaa keessatti yeroo ammaa kana dararamaa jiru. Yaa saba Oromoo maaloo wal irratti hin callisiinaa dhugaa isiniin jechuuf hidhaan nu irra gahe kun haala kanaan itti fufnaan isin irras gahuun isaa hin oolu.

Hidhamuuf Du’uun keenyaa isiniif malee ofii kenyaaf miti, lakki yaa saba kenyaa. Dhiigni Kenya akka tasaa dhangala’aa jiru kun isinitti haa dhaga’amu. Oromoon durii kaasee hanga amma kanaatti Dhiitamaa, Hidhamaa, D¬ u’aa, biyya isaa keessaa Ari’amaa jira… Isiniif haa galtu maaloo carraan hidhamuu keenya har’aa kun bor immoo keessan ta’uuf deemtii. Sin hara’a mana keessan teessanii kolfuu, taphachuun, hirriba nagaa rafuun keessan wanta nuffii fi, tuffiin jiruuf malee wanta mootummaan wayyaanee isin kabaje isinitti hin fakkaatiin!!!!!!!! Read more…

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U.N. expecting to feed 6.5 million Ethiopians this year

Hunger in Ethiopia again

May 13, 2014 (Reuters) – The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall.

“We are concerned because there is the beginning of a locust invasion in the eastern part of the country, and if it’s not properly handled it could be of concern for the pastoralist population living there,” WFP spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.

“And in the northern part of Ethiopia there has been less rain than average for the third or fourth consecutive year.” Read more…