January 31, 2015

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Sochii Bilisummaa Oromoo fi Jaarmota Bilisummaa | Oromo Liberation Movement and Liberation Organizations
By Ibsaa Guutamaa | Amajjii 27, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Gootonni Oromoo Salaaleetti Seenaa Agarii Tulluu Haaromsan, Gootummaanis Wareegaman.
Suurri argaa jirtan kun GOOTOTA ilmaan Oromoo roorroon hammaannan Wayyaanee fuuldura gootummaa dhaan falmaa dhaabbatanii utuu lolanii kanneen harka diinaatti gaafa kufan wayyaaneen gochaa suukaneessaa akkanaatiin uummata yaamtee raawwii akkasii jiilchaf ilmaan Oromoo kanneen irratti raawwatte. Oromoo diina isaa ajjeessaa, falmaa du’uun ykn wareegamuun kabajaa guddaa dha. Bakki gochaan fashitii Wayyaanee kun itti raawwatame godina SALAALEE, aanaa Darraatti baatii dabre gaafa 09/12/2014 ture.
Sababiin gootonno Oromoo kunneen itti bosona seenaniifis roorroo warri ergamtuu wayyaanee OPDO, dabballoota aanaa saniitirraa irra gahaa ture waan dadhaabaniif jiraachuus waan dadhhabaniif tahuutu gabaafama. Maqaan gooticha kanaa KATAMAA WUBETUU kan jedhamu erga dhiirummaasaa fi gootummaasaa loltoota wayyaanee 4 fi foolisoota hedduu galaafatee booda harka diinaatti kufuudhaan gaafa guyyaa 09\12\2014, aanaa Darraa, magaalaa Gondo Masqaal irratti wayyaaneen gochaa gara jabummaatiin uummata keenya jiilchuu fi sodaachisuuf hiriyaa isaa walin fannifte.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
UK government accused of sponsoring human rights abuses in Ethiopia
International Consortium for Investigative Journalists | Washington, DC, January 2015.
Anuak children in Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan. Many Anuak fled Ethiopia during a government relocation campaign called “villagization”. Photo: Andreea Campeanu/ICIJ.
Leaked Report Says World Bank Violated Own Rules in Ethiopia
Leaked Report Says World Bank Violated Own Rules in Ethiopia
Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) is the primary sponsor of the World Bank’s foreign aid initiative, supposedly set up to improve basic health, education and public services in Ethiopia. It has attracted over £388 million in UK taxpayer’s money to date.
According to a leaked report, obtained by the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, the seemingly benign aid program is facilitating a controversial resettlement scheme driven by the Ethiopian government.
Friday, January 23, 2015
‘Ethiopia’s media crackdown is bad news for Africa’
Without a free press in Addis Ababa, Africans are being locked out of the important decisions being made in their de facto capital, writes Simon Allison
“Ethiopia’s media should be playing a crucial role in the May elections, but instead many journalists fear that their next article could get them thrown in jail.”
January 23, 2015 (The Guardian) — It’s not easy being a journalist in Ethiopia. In fact, it’s nearly impossible, according to a new 76-page Human Rights Watch report that documents the scale of the state’s censorship apparatus. As a journalist, it makes for highly disturbing reading.
“Ethiopia’s government has systematically assaulted the country’s independent voices, treating the media as a threat rather than a valued source of information and analysis,” says Leslie Lefkow, the organisation’s deputy Africa director.
“Ethiopia’s media should be playing a crucial role in the May elections, but instead many journalists fear that their next article could get them thrown in jail.”
The authors of the report spoke to 70 Ethiopian journalists, many in exile, who painted a dismal picture of the state of Ethiopian media. The government exerts control in many different ways – some subtle, some quite the opposite.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Ethiopia: Media Being Decimated
Legal, Policy Reforms Crucial Prior to May Elections
The 76-page report, “‘Journalism is Not a Crime’: Violations of Media Freedom in Ethiopia,” details how the Ethiopian government has curtailed independent reporting since 2010. Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 70 current and exiled journalists between May 2013 and December 2014, and found patterns of government abuses against journalists that resulted in 19 being imprisoned for exercising their right to free expression, and that have forced at least 60 others into exile since 2010.
“Ethiopia’s government has systematically assaulted the country’s independent voices, treating the media as a threat rather than a valued source of information and analysis,” said Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director. “Ethiopia’s media should be playing a crucial role in the May elections, but instead many journalists fear that their next article could get them thrown in jail.”
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
H&M cuts cotton ties with Omo Valley of Ethiopia
January 21, 2015, WAKEFIELD (ECOTEXTILE) – H&M has become the second major retail brand to tell Ecotextile News that it will not be using anyTV4 exposed Al Amoudi and H&M cotton in its clothing which has been sourced from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. H&M’s announcement follows closely on the back of Tchibo’s statement last week in which the German company said that Ethiopian Cotton Made in Africa will now be its only source of Ethiopian cotton in its products due to concerns about cotton projects in the Omo Valley. Ayka Investment, the Turkish business heavily involved in the Ethiopian textile industry, is now withdrawing its investment in cotton production in the Lower Omo Valley on the advice Tchibo.
Ethiopia: human rights groups criticise UK-funded development programme
Leaked World Bank report rejects claims from the Bank’s management that no link existed between their programme and villagisation.
A traditional homestead in Gambela, Ethiopia. The country’s government denies driving indigenous people from their homes in order to make way for commercial projects. Photograph: Ariadne Van Zandbergen / Alamy/Alamy
January 21, 2015 (The Guardian) — A major UK- and World Bank-funded development programme inEthiopia may have contributed to the violent resettlement of a minority ethnic group, a leaked report reveals.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Jatani Ali Tandhu: Life & Legacy of a Borana Statesman
Title: Jatani Ali Tandhu: Life & Legacy of a Borana Statesman
Author: Tadhi Liban
Paperback: 298 pages
Publisher: Vivid Publishing (November 2014)
Language: English
Author: Tadhi Liban
Paperback: 298 pages
Publisher: Vivid Publishing (November 2014)
Language: English
Description: From time to time, certain individuals who display courage and self-sacrifice for the greater good emerge to make a lasting impact on the lives of entire communities. The late Jatani Ali Tandhu (“Shaalaqa”) was such a figure, born into a Borana family in southern Ethiopia.
Jatani Ali Tandhu: Life & Legacy of a Borana Statesman is a biographical account of an outstanding and much-loved former governor of Borana Administrative Region of southern Ethiopia, from his birth to the fateful day of his assassination in Nairobi in 1992.
The biography gives readers a glimpse into the life and work of a distinguished Borana, Oromo and Ethiopian leader. It is hoped that many young people from these communities will be inspired to follow in his footsteps in aiming to lift their people out of demeaning poverty, years of misrule and hopelessness. An everlasting monument to Jatani is not a statue cast from a bronze but the legacy that lives on in people’s lives and minds, to inspire current and future generations to follow his example, in having the education, dedication and courage to serve their communities honourably.
Monday, January 19, 2015
TV Oromiyaa MT Kabajaa Guyyaa Ayyaana WBO Konyaa BC; OromoProtestes collection
TV Oromiyaa MT Kabajaa Guyyaa Ayyaana WBO Konyaa BC | World media reports on Oromo protests collected altogether OromoProtestes |
Sad News: Five Oromo refugees die on the Sudanese-Libya border
Report by Boruu Barraaqaa | January 18, 2015
Dungujee Ittanaa (from her facebook profile)
According to a close source, five Oromo refugees have reportedly died and other wounded after they just crossed the border into Libya. The report didn’t identify the exact date and time of the accident, but confirmed that it happened in the last week.
More than half a dozen Oromo refugees were carried on the back of an old Toyota pickup owned by human traffickers when the accident happened. The car was heading from Khartoum to Tripoli, crossing the dangerous Sahara Desert with the haphazard fast speed.
The reason that caused the accident was also said to be driving with the highest speed in attempt to escape from the border police.
The source identified Dunguje Itana, a sister of Feven Itana, a famous spiritual (Christian) singer in Afan Oromo was one of the victims. Dunguje, who was a businesswoman and had her own house in Finfine had gotten her house being demolished by government forces under the pretext of ‘illegally built house’, said the report.
She was left with no compensation for her demolished house, moreover, previously she had been experienced prolonged persecution by government militias in Finfinnee due to her allegiance to being OLF supporter, added the report.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Oromo in Steinkjer, Norway, Demonstrate Against Oppression
Oromo in Steinkjer demonstrate against the government in their home country.
Alisee Fira Aynagee from Oromo people organized demonstration in Steinkjer, Thursday.
January 16, 2015, Steinkjer, Norway (Trønder-Avisa – Google Translation) — Thursday could hear slogans chanted throughout the square in Steinkjer. The reason was that a group of Ethiopians demonstrated against what they perceive as a dictatorial regime in their homeland.
Being persecuted:
– We belong to the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, with around 40 percent of the population. The Government of Ethiopia is dominated by minority tribe that makes around 6 percent of the Ethiopian Population. Oromo being pursued by this government – including putting journalists and politicians from our group of people in jail, telling Alisee Fira Aynagee, who organized the demonstration.
– You are far away from Ethiopia now. What do you hope to achieve?
– We hope that some of the residents in Steinkjer come to hear our message, and we hope to arouse the Norwegian government, which supports the regime in Ethiopia, says Aynagee.
– We belong to the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, with around 40 percent of the population. The Government of Ethiopia is dominated by minority tribe that makes around 6 percent of the Ethiopian Population. Oromo being pursued by this government – including putting journalists and politicians from our group of people in jail, telling Alisee Fira Aynagee, who organized the demonstration.
– You are far away from Ethiopia now. What do you hope to achieve?
– We hope that some of the residents in Steinkjer come to hear our message, and we hope to arouse the Norwegian government, which supports the regime in Ethiopia, says Aynagee.
Woyane Sentences Three Britons to Jail on Terrorism Charges
Note: Is this true or false? You judge from Woyanes’s past performance.
Two Britons have been jailed in Ethiopia over terrorism
January 15, 2014 (Bloomberg) — An Ethiopian court sentenced three British citizens to prison after finding them guilty of trying to establish Islamic rule in the country through acts of “terrorism,” according to a Justice Ministry official.
Ali Adorus was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in Ethiopian prison, while Somalia-born Mohammed Ahmed and Ahmed Elmi were each given jail terms of four years and eight months, Fekadu Tsega, coordinator of the federal center of prosecution, said by phone yesterday from the capital, Addis Ababa.
“They were accused of trying to unconstitutionally change the government and introduce Islamic government in Ethiopia by terrorism,” he said.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Ethiopian Opposition Faces Difficulty in Entering Upcoming Elections
January 14, 2015, ADDIS ABABA (VOA News) — Ethiopian opposition parties say they are facing roadblocks in their efforts to register for the May elections. The parties say the National Election Board is complicating procedures for no good reason, and raising doubt that the elections will be free or fair.
The Unity for Democracy and Justice party has the only opposition member in Ethiopia’s 547-seat parliament. But it is unclear if the party will be allowed to participate in the May elections, as the National Election Board has rejected UDJ logos.
Wondimu Golla of the National Election Board said it was not about the logos, but about procedural rules.
“According to their bylaws it says, the president of the party shall be nominated or elected by the general assembly. But they nominate by some few persons, the high officials there. So we oppose this. They have to strictly follow the bylaws, their own bylaws,” said Golla.
The National Election Board has given UDJ two weeks to organize a general assembly, and if its conduct is approved the party will be allowed to participate in the May elections. But the UDJ has decided to not hold another general assembly.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Afrikaa Kibbaa Keessatti Guyyaan WBO Sirna Howwaan Kabajame
Afrikaa Kibbaa Keessatti Guyyaan WBO Sirna Howwaan Kabajame
Amajjii 13, 2015
Sagantaan Teenya akkuma Aadaa teenyaa Eebba manguddootaatiin eegallee Yaadannoo Qabsaawoota QBO irratti wareegamanii fi Faaruu Alaabaa,
Ibsa Dhaabaa fii seenaa Guyyaa WBO fi Amajjii,Maalif akka kabajuun barbaachisee fi yoom akka eegale,
Draamaa Haala yeroo ammaa mootummaa Abbaa irree wayyaaneetiin Ummata oromoo irratti geggeeyfamaa jiru agarsiisu,
Draamaa Haala yeroo ammaa mootummaa Abbaa irree wayyaaneetiin Ummata oromoo irratti geggeeyfamaa jiru agarsiisu,
Agarsiisa WBO fi QEERROO bakkuma jirrutti akka Draamaattii Qopheessine agarsiisuu fi Gumaacha Addaa gaafachuun tinnisa WBOf argamsiisuu fi Caalbaasiin wal booharsuutu ture.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
MINNEAPOLIS MAY SOON GET A COMMEMORATIVE OROMO STREET
January 10, 2015 OPride) — The Minneapolis City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Jan. 12 to decide on Council Member Abdi Warsame’s application for commemorative street names along the city’s Cedar riverside area. Warsame’s proposal calls for 4th Street South between Cedar Avenue and 15th Avenue South to be named “Oromo Street,” and for the stretch between 6th Street and Cedar Avenue to 15th avenue South to be called “Somali Street.”
The hearing is scheduled to take place at 4:30 p.m in Room 317 City Hall, 350 S 5th street in Minneapolis, Minn. The proposal is backed by the city’s Department of Public Works and the Department of Community Planning and Economic Development, according to the Commission’s website. The Commission’s decisions are final unless appealed.
For a city that boasts the largest population of both Oromo and Somali immigrants, such recognition would be a welcome development. The Cedar Riverside neighborhood is jokingly called little Mogadishu because of its large Somali residents while Minnesota is widely known as “Little Oromia” among Oromos. Home to the largest Somali population in the U.S., Minnesota has an estimated 40,000 Oromos. The Oromo are the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, constituting nearly half of the country’s 94 million population.
Ethiopian opposition says electoral body blocks party registration
January 9, 2015 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s sole opposition member of parliament said on Friday the country’s electoral board had turned down all four election logos his party had submitted, preventing it from registering for the May election.
Girma Seifu said his Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) and the board had been haggling over the logo for months.
“From the very beginning, (government) activities have not been free and fair,” Girma said.
“They do not want us to participate. It is a tactic.”
Girma said however that the UDJ would not boycott the poll.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Widespread Repression: State Terrorism in Ogaden, Ethiopia
By GRAHAM PEEBLES
January 9, 2015 (CounterPunch) — Ethiopia is being hailed as a shining example of African economic growth. Principle donors and devotees of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank development model (an imposed ideological vision which measures all things in terms of a nations GDP) see the country as an island of potential prosperity and stability within a region of failed states and violent conflict. “Economic performance in recent years has been strong, with economic growth averaging in double-digits since 2004,”states the IMF country report. The economic model (a hybrid of western capitalism and Chinese control) adopted by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government is a centralised system that denies democracy – consultation and participation in “development plans” is unheard of – ignores and violates human rights.
Labsa Tokkoomuu ABO fi KY – ABO
Amajjii 9, 2015
Kanneen hidhaa diinaa jalaa miliqan barnootarraa arihamuu fi biyyoota ollaa keessatti alloolamuurraa bilisa tahuu hin dendeenye. Miidhaa fi darara ar’aan tana ummata keenya akka ummataatti irratti raawwachaa jiraniin alatti Oromiyaa qircachuu/ciranii hiratuudhaan balleessuuf saganteefatani jiru. Kana malees, Oromummaa sammuu Oromoo keessaa haquudhaaf tattaaffii godhamaa jirtu ofirraa faccisuudhaa fi mirgaa fi eenyummaa Oromoof caalaatti wabii tahuudhaaf maloottan jiran keessaa malli inni tokko Oromoon akka sabaatti; jaarmoonni siyaasaa Oromoo fi Oromummaa akka dhaabaa fi gurmuutti wal tahuudhaan diina innikkaa dura dhaabbatuun tarkaanfii murteessaa fudhachuun barbaachisaa dha.
New Book Announcement from Qeerroo Bilisummaa
Amajjii 8, 2015
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Biyya Saudi Keessatti, Abbaan Duulaa Gammadaa Barattooti Oromoo Ajjeefamanii fi Oromoonni Mana Hidhaa Wayyaanee Jiran Hundi Yakkamtoota Jechuun ibsa Keene ilaachisee, Qeerroon Bilisummaa Balaaleffate
Amajjii 6, 2015 Ergamaan Wayyaane A/Duulaa Gammadaa (Minaaseen waldee Goorgiis) olola diinummaa butachuun hawwaasa Oromoo saawudi Arabia jiran dura dhaabbachuun yakki ajjeechaa fi hidhaa akkasumas saaminsa Mootummaan abbaa Irree Wayyaanee EPRDF/TPLF fudhachaa jiruun tarkaanfii sirriidha jechuun yakka lammaffaa kan dhiifama hin qabne ilmaan Oromoo irratti dalagee jira.
Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo olola diinummaa Abbaan Duulaa gaggeessaa jiru kun uumata Oromoo biraatti yakka ulfaataa Wayyaanee EPRDF/TPLF/OPDO’n uummata Oromoo irratti rawwate jabeessuun kan itti fufsiisa jiru ta’uu hubachuun jabeessee balaaleffachuun Qeerroon gadi jabeessee ibsa.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
The people pushed out of Ethiopia’s fertile farmland
By Matthew Newsome
After waiting several weeks for letters of permission from various Ethiopian ministries, I begin my road trip into the country’s southern lowlands.
I want to investigate the government’s controversial plan to take over vast swathes of ancestral land, home to around 100,000 indigenous pastoralists, and turn it into a major centre for commercial agriculture, where foreign agribusinesses and government plantations would raise cash crops such as sugar and palm oil.
After driving 800km (497 miles) over two days through Ethiopia’s lush highlands I begin my descent into the lower Omo valley. Here, where palaeontologists have discovered some of the oldest human remains on earth, some ancient ways of life cling on.
ETHIOPIA: Oromo Voices from Ethiopia Prisons
HRLHA Urgent Action
January 6, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
Guyyaan WBO Meelboorni Awustraaliyaa keessatti sirna ho’aan kabajame
Amajjii 4, 2014
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Deggarsa Ijaaramuu Qeerroo Idil-Aduunyaa
Deggarsa Ijaaramuu Qeerroo Idil-Aduunyaa
Ibsa Gabaabaa Qeerroo Bilisummaa
Finfinnee
Jarmayaan “Dhaabbata Deggersa Qeerroo Idil-aduunyaa – International Qeerroo (Youth) Support Group dhabbatuu isaa fi seeraan galmaawee akka socho’u beeksisa bahe yeroo arginu gammachuu guddan nutti dhagahame.
Akeeka eebbifamaa jarmyaa kanaa Oromootni biyya alaa fi keessaa akka cinaa dhaabbatanii fi irratti gargaartan waamicha keenya isiniif dabarsina.
Ummanni Oromoo miga dhalanamaa fi saba cunqurfamaa Oromoof jecha deggersa dandeessan kannaa jirtan martuu waliin hojjatnee waliin rakkina akka sabatti qabnu keessaa akka baanu waamicha keenya.
Dargaggoonni Oromoo fi Ilmaan Oromoo jarmyaa akeeka eebbifamaa Deeggarsa Qeerroo Idil-addunyaa gadi dhaabdan hojii irratti milkii cululuqaa waliif hawwina. Qeeroon akeeka keessan milkaawuuf waan irraa eegamu hunda akka raawwatu gamanumaa mirkaneessina.
Dargaggoonni Oromoo fi Ilmaan Oromoo jarmyaa akeeka eebbifamaa Deeggarsa Qeerroo Idil-addunyaa gadi dhaabdan hojii irratti milkii cululuqaa waliif hawwina. Qeeroon akeeka keessan milkaawuuf waan irraa eegamu hunda akka raawwatu gamanumaa mirkaneessina.
Injifatnoo Ummata Oromoof!
Gadaan Gadaa Bilisummaa dha!
Qeerroo Bilisummaa
Qeerroo Bilisummaa
Finfinnee
Amajjii 01,2015
Thursday, January 1, 2015
HRLHA Holds Public Meetings with Oromo Community Members
January 1, 2015
BEEKSISA: Dhaabbata Deeggarsa Qeerroo Idil-aduunyaa
“Dhaabbata Deeggarsa Qeerroo Idil-aduunyaa” biyyaa Amerikaa Magaalaa Guddoo Washington DC keessatti seeraan bu’aa fi siyaasaa irraa walaba ta’uun hundaa’ee hojii eegaluuf haal-duree xumuree jiraachuu isaa gammachuun isiniif ibsina. Kaayyoo hundeeffama isaa qabatnee uummata Oromoo fi deeggartoota kaayyoo kanaa kan taatan mara yeroo dhihoo keessatti isin bira waan geenyuuf qophiidhaan akka nu eegdan kabajaan isin beeksifna.
Koree qindeesituu irraa
ANNOUNCEMENT
This is to inform you that the “International Qeerroo (youth) Support Group” has officially established in Washington DC, USA as nonprofit and nonpolitical organization and completed preparations to reach out to you. The founders kindly request all Oromo people and the supporters of the purpose of the organization to work with them.
The organizing committee
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