By Abdirahman Hollywood San Diego, California: The 2nd annual San Diego Walk to End Genocide a worldwide campaign was held on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at the Carmel Valley’s Ocean Air Community Park in San Diego. The purpose of the event was to raise awareness, to advocate and to educate about the horrors of genocide around the world. Among the [...]
Watch the poem of the young talented members of OYSU Sweden reading poems at the Ogaden community meeting
Fleeing Ogaden refugees recount tales of terror Remote villagers were living in a happy life, performing traditional dances locally known as Daanto; children played hide-and seek; wives were making cheese and sewing clothes; men were playing chess (shax) and contesting the poems to pass time when they were not herding camels; young adults were rehearsing their [...]
“Every night, they took all of us girls to [interrogations]. They would separate us and beat us. The second time they took me, they raped me… All three of the men raped me, consecutively”. Human Rights Watch (HRW) report in Collective Punishment Along with 15 other female students, this innocent 17 year-old Ogaden Somali girl, [...]
Ogaden Online editorial: The Qatari-based Aljazeera News Network has recently reported that Ethiopian authorities are blocking its services in Ethiopia. According to Aljazeera, the Ethiopian regime resorted to this measure after the Network begun airing, in July last year, the ongoing Ethiopian Muslim protest movement. The blocking of news media sites by the Ethiopian regime [...]
An independent panel has called for an investigation into a World Bank-funded project in Ethiopia following accusations from refugees that the bank is funding a programme that forced people off their land. In a report, seen by the Guardian, the inspection panel – the World Bank’s independent accountability mechanism – calls for an investigation into complaints made by refugees from [...]
Thousands of people have fled from Ogaden Region after the Ethiopian regime unleashed a crackdown and collective punishment campaign against the civilian population in its battle with independence-seeking movement, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) especially after the ONLF asked a referendum according to the Transitional Charter of 1991. As a result, majority of the rural population [...]
The Somali political commentator Dr. Mohamed Abas has recently penned an article entitled “Jigjiga Has Shown Its Warm Hospitality to Mogadishu” published in several websites. In the article, Dr. Abas writes about the recent choreographed visit to Jigjiga by a Somali parliamentary delegation led by the speaker of the Somali parliament, Mr. Mohamed Sh. Osman [...]
In commemoration of the International Women’s Day we will refresh the last Interview of Al-Jazeera English with Mts. Fawzia Abdulkadir about the the Ethiopian army atrocities of what they called the next Darfur. After that interview, many more thousands of Ogaden civilians have been killed or tortured. In Ethiopia a separatist war is taking place [...]
Militias have been threatening the local Ogaden population to pay a “head tax” on both the civilians as well as on their livestock Since many Ogaden civilians have not much to pay for this illegal head tax, it is reported that the Tigrian militias and their local Somali cahoots, masquerading as the Ethiopian military are [...]
By Yakume: The 2013 Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD) ( Ethiopia HRD_Jan_June 2013 (1) ) covering the first half of the year (Jan-June) was launched on 28 February. The document identifies emergency requirements in the food and non-food sectors based on the findings of the joint multi-sectoral assessment conducted from 20 November to 15 December 2012, as [...]
ONLF Press Release March 3, 2013 Since mid-February, the Ethiopian Army and its Associated militia-the Liyu Police has occupied most of Ogaden well during the rainy season and has imposed draconian scheme to collect illegal money on the poor agro pastoral communities. The EA is forcing the people to pay the following amounts of Ethiopian [...]
The recent foiled abduction of two Ogaden political leaders who were asylum seekers in Kenya by Ethiopian secret service agents in collaboration with rogue elements of junior Kenyan security services has increased the worries of Ogaden refugees in Kenya and raised many questions. And the answers lead to Abdi Iley, the head of the Ethiopian [...]
On February 26 of 2013, a function of remembrance named as “February Massacre Day” was held in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city. This rememberance which hundreds of participants attended, was occurring in Nairobi’s Bin Ali Hotel at 8th street of East Leigh neighborhood. This function, had its unique magnitude, by displaying Ethiopian regime forces’ brutality or [...]
A delegation led by the Foreign Relations Secretary of Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attended the founding Congress of SORTU, which is formed to unite all section of the Basque people and lead the peaceful pursuit of the Basque people’s quest for self-determination and freedom. Hundreds of progressive organisations and individuals attended the Congress, which [...]
On Monday, February 18, 2013, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) released its latest Press Statement concerning Africa Oil Corporation (AOC) and called that company to cease its oil exploration activities in Ogaden “until a just settlement of the conflict is achieved and the people of the Ogaden are in a position to be masters [...]
Primary sponsor: McDonnell, John Sponsors: Caton, Martin, Edwards, Jonathan, Flynn, Paul, Meale, Alan That this House expresses its concern at recent reports that the Department for International Development is considering tenders to train security forces in the Somali region of Ogaden, which include the Liyu police who, according to Amnesty International, have been implicated [...]
OYSU Melbourn, Victoria Today marks the 19th Anniversary of the Wardheer Ogaden Massacre when Ethiopian armed forces opened fire on unarmed Civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly. It was indeed truly a tragic and unforgettable day. On Behalf of Ogaden Youth and Students Union (O.Y.S.U) in Melbourne we remember the victims and their family. [...]
February 18, 2013 Ogaden National Liberation Front For the last few Months, African Oil Corporation, an upstart oil company has been engaged in a propaganda stunt conspiring with the tyrannical Ethiopian regime in order to exploit Ogaden oil and try to bury and deny the documented human rights abuses committed by the Ethiopian Army [...]
“The risks posed by violent religious radicalism in Ethiopia are not imaginary,” says Jon Abbink, senior researcher from the African studies center at Leiden University in the Netherlands. “But the documentary is probably over-doing it; the susceptibility of Muslims in Ethiopia to Al Qaeda-like radicalization is slim,” he says, adding that the film would appear to “delegitimize” peaceful [...]
Ogaysiis muhiim ah oo kusocda Jaaliyadda Holland
Daawo-Waa inoo Qori afkii!! Muqaalkii ugu danbeyay ee Ciidanka Wadaniga Xoraynta Ogadenya.
Daawo shirkii Ururka Hooyoyinka Ogadenya ee lagu qabtay Minnesota Iyo Abwan Jaangoo oo ka qaybgalay.
Daawo Sawirada Sanad Guuradi 28aad oo lagu qabtay melbourne Australia
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