Reports reaching the Ogaden Online News Desk confirm the burning down of the town of Budle, Shabelle province by the Woyane army. Eyewitnesses indicate that the Woyane militias first looted all valuables in the town. Prior to torching the town, the marauding Woyane militias also took two young girls with them. We couldn’t confirm the [...]
Reports reaching the Ogaden Online service desk from the city of Diridhaba in the province of Shiniile confirm the existence of a recent pitched battle that took place between the Tigrian People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) militias stationed in the area and the local citizenry.
It is reported that towards the end of last week, the civilians [...]
WORRIES about Ethiopia’s election, due in May, are growing. Aid-giving Western governments hope it will pass off without the strife that followed the last one, in 2005, when 200 people were killed, thousands were imprisoned, and the democratic credentials of Meles Zenawi, despite his re-election, were left in tatters.
Though poor and fragile, Ethiopia carries a [...]
Written by: AlertNet correspondent
LONDON (AlertNet) – Amid frequent headlines about conflict-ridden Somalia, Afghanistan and Sudan, it is easy to overlook less well publicised emergencies in other parts the world. Yet some of these forgotten crises are likely to intensify in 2010, aggravating human suffering.
Here is a selection of some of the under-reported humanitarian emergencies at [...]
Anti-Somalia, Anti-Ogaden Falsehood of Western Academia: Fabrication of Fake Ethiopian History
Jan 10
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Most of the troubles attested in Eastern Africa are not due to the racist and barbaric elites of the Amhara and Tigray-ruled Abyssinia. By themselves, the rancorous, hatred-promoting, Monophysitic (Tewahedo) Abyssinians would never be able to expand their influence outside the small and arid land which is theirs, and which will be [...]
One of the most common and great truths of our time is that freedom requires international vigilance. The free people of the world cannot enjoy the full benefit of being free when the freedom of 80 million Ethiopians is egregiously violated by a regime that enjoys the full support of the free world. In Ethiopia, [...]
Asmara 3 January, 2010: In continuation of the interview he conducted tonight with the national media outlets, President Isaias Afwerki underscored that the TPLF regime’s ploy of dividing, weakening and sowing seeds of division among the Ethiopian people is a capital strategic error.
Stating that all peoples manage to build nationhood only through consummating the political [...]
Eritrea says its forces have killed 10 Ethiopian soldiers during clashes in a border town.
The Eritrean Information Ministry says soldiers from Ethiopia’s TPLF party launched successive attacks on the town of Zalambesa January 1. It says the soldiers were driven back, with 10 killed, two others captured, and the loss of some weapons and equipment.
There [...]
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
With the rise of the CIA-supported Shabaab in the Somali South, the Horn of Africa has entered a new phase of deterioration. With the strained UN decision for sanctions against Eritrea, a further step was taken toward East Africa´s corrosion. With the forthcoming farcical elections in Abyssinia (fallaciously renamed as ´Ethiopia´) the [...]
The UN Security Council has today passed a shameful resolution imposing sanctions against Eritrea. The unjustifiable measures imposed on Eritrea include: an arms embargo; the inspection and seizure by Member States in their territory of such cargo to and from Eritrea; and, the imposition of a travel ban, and the freezing of assets of, Eritrea’s [...]