Ethiopian leader's absence grips nation, fuels speculation

By Faith Karimi, CNN
August 16, 2012

(CNN) -- Ethiopia's prime minister is "recovering well," a spokesman said Wednesday, amid frenzied speculation about the health of the usually visible leader, who has not appeared in public for two months.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, 57, came to power two decades ago and is considered a strong force in the frequently volatile horn of Africa.

He has not appeared in public since June, and the secretive nation has released little information about his whereabouts, prompting rumors and opposition claims that he is dead or facing a life-threatening illness.

Ethiopia: Prominent Muslims Detained in Crackdown

Security Forces Arrest Hundreds of Peaceful Protesters; Detainees at Risk

    

     Human Rights Watch
     AUGUST 15, 2012     

(Nairobi) – The Ethiopian government should immediately release 17 prominent Muslim leaders arrested as part of a brutal crackdown on peaceful Muslim protesters in Addis Ababa, Human Rights Watch said today. A court is expected to rule during the week of August 13, 2012, on whether to bring charges against the detainees who have been held for almost three weeks in a notorious prison without access to lawyers.

NEW GOBANA DACCHES

14 August 2012

Gobana Dacche was a traitor for allying with the northern Ethiopian(Abyssinia) to conquer the Oromo land. In allaying with Menelik II, " The African Hitler", Gobana surrendered Oromia to the hands of bloody colonizers from the northern part. Due to Gobana Dacches historical uncorrected mistake, Oromia have lost and keep losing the life of millions of her children, and natural resources. We have got just only shame, humiliation, harassment, oppression, massacre and hunger from Gobana's evil deeds. He was just a toll to cause destruction of Oromo people and Oromia in the hands of cruel enemy. He was used by Menelik II once and then thrown away from the line. Gobana Dacche was simply a "use and throw" for cruel Menelik II.

Professor Mohammed Hassan translates the following song as an example of Oromo expression that Gobana Dacche betrayed his own people:

OROMIA: FAILURE TO LEARN FROM HISTORY

By Leenjiso Horo (August 14/2012)

It is important to note that, for centuries, the Oromo lived in the Horn of Africa as a free, independent and sovereign nation. During those centuries, they developed a democratic republican form of political system, known as the Gadaa system. It was a system of political and military collective leadership. For centuries, they lived under this system in unity. Under this system, they drew their national power from their democratic governance, their unity, their collective Gadaa leadership, their natural and human resources, their defense army and art of war, and their determination to live as a free and independent nation. However, by the beginning of the 19th-century, internal changes began to take place within the Oromo society. This was a period in which the nation began undergoing a state of political commotion.

The Goal of Oromo People

 August  09, 2012

The Oromo people remained independent until the last quarter of the nineteenth century.But in the last decade of the nineteenth century , the Oromo people failed under harsh and back ward colonizers of European-helped Abyssinia(Ethiopia). Since then Oromia has lost and losing millions of unreplaceable and precious children, men and women. Oromia also missed a lot economically, ecologically, geographically, socially ,and even forced to live in all rounded crises of life full of hunger, death and destruction. All these horrible life of the Oromo people is the result of being under the hands of harsh and cruel colonizers of Abyssinia.

STRONG OR WEAK THERE IS ONLY ONE OLF/ Oromo Liberation Front/

By Ibsaa Guutama

Aug 9, 2012 (gubirmnas) – Because of the conceptual strength of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) campaign against it from many directions, defamations, efforts to break it into pieces, did not materialize; they could not erase it from Oromo hearts, it rather went on rejuvenating. But in practice the leadership did not demonstrate strength the organization requires. It lacked the essential energy. There is also weakness in economic aspect. To generate that also demands stronger organization and leadership. That means the OLF mission is waiting for all round stronger organization and leadership. As an organization it did not put in place methods for correcting defect that might be encountered. It was realized very recently that problems eating it from inside started from the head down. There were undetermined members of the leadership. Therefore it demands not slicing and baking a little bit for once appetite but conducting a revolution on oneself. The vision of independence is the stored hope of Oromo people it cannot be extinguished until it gets the chance of being realized. The Oromoo always remember that they are part of Africa from time immemorial. African unity can be formed by its free peoples not dictators.

JABAATUS LAAFFATUS ABOn TOKKICHA

Ibsaa Guutamaa irra

Hagayya 9, 2012 (gubirmans) – Addi Bilisummaa Oromo (ABO) akka yaadaatt baayyee jabaa wan ta’eef meeqa itt duulamu, meeqa busheeffamu, bakka meeqatt caccabsuu yaalamus garaa Oromoo keessaa baduu hin dandeenye, muuxataa bulas. Akka shaakalatt garuu hoggansi saa cimina jaarmicha irra eegamu hin agarsiifne Giidoo barbaachisu dhabani. Gara diinagdeenis dadhabbiin jira. Sana maddisiisuun jarmaa fi hooggansa jabaa gaafata. Kanaaf ergamsi ABO waan halleef hooggansaa fi jaarmaa jabaa eeggataa jira jechuu dha. Akka dhaabatt muda dhalatu sirreeffachuuf mala dursee lafa hin kaawwanne. Rakkinni keessa keessa nyaataa ture kan mataa ka’e ta’uun dhiyoo barame. Miseensota Hoggansaa keessaa kan hin murteeffatintu turan. Falli sana hundaa irraa ququnxuranii waa bixilachuun utuu hin tahin of irratt warrraqsa gaggeessuu gaafata. Daayi egeree iftuu dha, abdiin bilisummaaf ummati Oromoo kuufate hanga inni carraa ofiin bulu argatutt hin dhaamu. Ummati Oromoo qaama ummata Afrikaa ta’uusaa ABOn bareeche beeka. Tokkummaan Afrikaa ummatoota bilisa ta’ani malee abbaa hirrootaatin ijaaramu akka hin dandeenyes ni amana. Akka uumata tokkooti ijjeerrii sana irratt qooda fudhachuuf Oromoon dura bilisomuu akka qabu ni fudhata. Of jabeessuun kan fa’iifis ni barbaachisa.

WHERE IS MELES ZENAWI ?

                                                                                             
Wednesday 8 August 2012 17.19 BST 

The Guardian

Addis Ababa mute on whereabouts of PM – latest African leader believed to be unwell but subject of information blackout

He hasn't been seen in public since the G8 summit in Mexico, and since then Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has even missed the African Union summit held in his own capital city, Addis Ababa.

Zenawi, 57, usually a conspicuous figure at meetings of African and international heads of state, has now been missing for more than seven weeks, amid growing incredulity.

WHY ARE ALL ETHIOPIAN EYES ON BRUSSELS?

By:Ben Rawlence
Published in: De Morgen

JULY 19, 2012

The cancellation of a scheduled press conference this week, to discuss the health of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi – currently in Belgium for treatment – started rumors flying. Belgians might be interested to know why Ethiopians are watching events in Brussels so keenly.

OROMIA AND ETHIOPIA

 Association of Oromo Community in Ireland

 “Ethiopia Is Not Oromia; Oromia Is Not Ethiopia” – Oromo Community @ Africa Day 2012 in Ireland

The Africa Day was celebrated colourfully on 26 and 27 of May 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. Many African embassies and communities across the country came together in open space to show their culture, identity and the best of their communities, their countries and their continent at large. The Association of Oromo Community in Ireland was, not onlyone of these communities on the event, but also the shining star of Africa and its people. Starting from the first day of the event, the community’s members and leaders were there at the event and were very busy explaining, demonstrating the Oromo heritage, as well as participating in different competitions at the event.