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Zambia's President Hakinde Hichilema has fired the entire board of the country's Anti-Corruption Commission after allegations that certain officials on the body tasked with fighting corruption, were taking bribes. The accusations have been strongly denied, but a former chairman says the board needs to be reformed.Ethiopia has seen a surge in kidnappings for ransom in recent years and the country's largest region, Oromia, is one of the worst affected. Who are the groups behind the abductions and what are their motives?And how can artisanal and informal mining in sub-Saharan Africa be made safer?Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Nyasha Michelle in London; Blessing Aderogba in Lagos; and Charles Gitonga in Nairobi Technical Producer: Jack Graysmark Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi.

*) Israeli shelling, raids leave Gaza reeling with multiple deaths Several Palestinians, including women, have been killed and many others wounded in a series of Israeli raids across the besieged Gaza. According to a medical source, seven bodies were brought to al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp, central Gaza, following an Israeli bombing that targeted a family. Separately, the Israeli army continued shelling the Shujaiah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, causing extensive damage to residential areas. *) Gaza ceasefire negotiations to continue next week — Israel The head of Israel's Mossad has returned from Doha after an initial meeting with mediators to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner swap deal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced that negotiations will resume next week but noted that gaps remain between the sides. *) Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran's presidential election Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential run-off, defeating his rival Saeed Jalili, as confirmed by the Interior Ministry of Iran. Early vote counts on Saturday showed Pezeshkian securing 16.3 million votes, while Jalili received 13.5 million in Friday's election. Over 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote, including about 18 million aged 18 to 30. *) 4.5M people internally displaced in Ethiopia as of June: UN report Ethiopia is facing a severe internal displacement crisis, with an estimated 4.5 million people forced from their homes primarily due to conflict as of June, according to a UN report. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlighted that the Somali, Oromia, and Tigray regions are the most affected. Over half of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been displaced for more than a year, while 23 percent have been displaced for two to four years, and 11 percent for five years or more. *) Palestine plans to play World Cup qualifiers in occupied West Bank After advancing further than ever in World Cup qualifying, Palestine is determined to host a game on home soil. The Palestinian Football Association has proposed playing matches in the third stage of its Asian qualification campaign in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They have already garnered support from several opponents, starting with Jordan on September 10. The Palestinian team made history by progressing through the second round of continental qualifying in June.

The United States has called for a temporary nationwide ceasefire following continued fighting between the national army and armed groups in Oromia and Amhara regions. The US alleges that the armed groups target schools, health centres and water infrastructure.Why has Gabon's deposed President Ali Bongo gone on hunger strike?And Audrey speaks to legendary singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder after he was granted Ghanaian citizenship earlier this week!Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Rob Wilson, Karnie Sharp,Bella Hassan, Charles Gitonga and Paul Bakibinga Technical Producers : Jonny Hall and Daniela Victoria Varela Hernandez Editors: Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard.

“The government has been reacting very strongly to the possibility of famine and they're dismissing it, but they are admitting there is drought and that millions of people are being affected.”It's just over a year since the Ethiopian government signed a peace deal with the Tigray People's Liberation Front – to end the brutal civil war in the north of the country.The ‘Pretoria agreement' saw the TPLF agreeing to disarm, in return for the reopening of Tigray, to allow in desperately needed food aid.During the war hundreds of thousands of people are reported to have died – many from starvation. But now, international aid agencies are warning that people there are again in desperate need of food. And throughout the last year there have been outbreaks of violence in other regions in Ethiopia: Amhara, Afar, and Oromia. So what's happening in Tigray and Ethiopia? Alan @Kasujja speaks to the BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal.

This is the web version of Foreign Exchanges, but did you know you can get it delivered right to your inbox? Sign up today:TODAY IN HISTORYDecember 2, 1805: At the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon wins what was arguably his greatest victory against a larger joint Russian-Austrian army. The Allies suffered 36,000 dead/wounded/captured compared with only 9000 for the French. The French victory was so complete that not only did it end the War of the Third Coalition, it allowed Napoleon to create the Confederation of the Rhine among the German states that had become French clients. Emperor Francis II was then forced to dissolve the Holy Roman Empire, which had been in existence continuously since 962 and traced its origins back to Charlemagne's coronation as “emperor of the Romans” in 800.December 2, 1942: Enrico Fermi and his team create the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction at “Chicago Pile-1,” a rudimentary reactor built under the campus of the University of Chicago. This was the first milestone achievement for the Manhattan Project in its race to build a nuclear bomb before Nazi Germany.December 3, 1971: The Pakistani military undertakes preemptive airstrikes against several Indian military installations, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, itself the final phase of the Bangladesh Liberation War. India was preparing to enter the war on Bangladesh's side anyway, so when I say these strikes were “preemptive” I am not using that term in the phony, George W. Bush “hey they might attack us someday, you never know” sense of the term. The war, to put it mildly, was a complete disaster for the Pakistanis, who were forced to surrender a scant 13 days later and had to give up their claims on “East Pakistan” (Bangladesh) while suffering around a third of their military killed, wounded, or captured. In one of Henry Kissinger's more notorious acts, the Nixon administration opted to support Pakistan despite evidence of its armed forces committing major atrocities against Bangladeshi civilians.December 3, 1984: A Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, spews toxic methyl isocyanate gas overnight, resulting in the deaths of between 3800 and 16,000 people and causing injury to at least 558,000 more. Union Carbide maintains that the leak was caused by deliberate sabotage, though Indian courts subsequently found several officials at the plant guilty of negligence. The “Bhopal Disaster” remains one of the worst industrial catastrophes in history and its adverse effects are still being felt by people in that region to the present day.MIDDLE EASTISRAEL-PALESTINEThe Israeli military (IDF) was advancing on the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis on Sunday, with Hamas officials and residents both reporting indications of nearby fighting and the IDF later confirming that it has sent ground forces into southern Gaza. The IDF has been ordering civilians to evacuate the eastern reaches of Khan Younis, and of course it's posted a helpful interactive map on its website that warns civilians of imminent danger provided those civilians have reliable internet access and haven't lost their special IDF secret decoder rings. Residents of Khan Younis will likely move further south to Rafah, though that city is also under heavy IDF bombardment so it's not really safe either. Israeli officials say the IDF struck more than 400 targets over the weekend, and the official Gazan death toll had risen at last check to 15,523. The real death toll may be substantially higher, given the likelihood of bodies that haven't yet been recovered and the closure of most of the hospitals that were handling casualties.Elsewhere:* Aid shipments into Gaza have resumed. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says that 100 truckloads of aid entered the territory from Egypt on Saturday and I believe the aim was to bring in a similar number of trucks on Sunday though I have not seen any information yet as to whether that was accomplished.* The Biden administration may be “pressing” Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations, as White House spokes-ghoul John Kirby told NBC on Sunday, but there's no indication it's having any success. After the ceasefire collapsed on Friday the Israeli government recalled its Mossad negotiators from Qatar, and for Hamas's part the Islamist group's political wing has sworn off any future prisoner swaps “until the war ends.”* The administration is continuing to send large quantities of ordinance to the IDF, including massive “bunker buster” bombs. So any claim that it's really pushing the Israeli government to negotiate a ceasefire or even demonstrate greater discernment in its bombardments really doesn't hold up terribly well.* Israel Hayom is reporting that “key figures” in the US Congress have been shown the text of a “new initiative” that would condition future US aid to Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, and Yemen (all of which it identified as “Arab states,” which would be news to the Turks) on the willingness of governments in those four states to enable the ethnic cleansing of Gaza by taking in refugees. That same outlet has also reported (in Hebrew, so here's a summary from Ryan Grim) that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Minister of Strategic Planning Ron Dermer to put together a plan to “thin the population in Gaza to a minimum,” which if nothing else is an incredible euphemism. The Biden administration has rejected any forced and/or permanent relocation of Gazan civilians, a point that Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated during her visit to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai over the weekend. But it perhaps could be sold on the idea of a “voluntary” (in quotes because in reality it would be anything but) evacuation that is characterized as temporary even if there's no real intention to ever let the evacuees return.* The Guardian says its reporting has confirmed the findings of that bombshell +972 Magazine piece from a few days ago, which reported that the IDF has been using an AI system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”) to identify targets under a process that's been likened to a “mass assassination factory.” The system is producing targets faster than the IDF can attack them, including private homes where the likelihood of civilian casualties is high. Israeli officials are apparently insisting that the AI is programmed to minimize civilian risk, an assertion that cannot be squared with the high number of civilian casualties incurred so far in this conflict.* Israeli settler mobs attacked two West Bank villages in separate incidents on Saturday, killing at least one Palestinian in one of those attacks. The human rights organization Yesh Din says it's catalogued some 225 settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, resulting in at least nine deaths.* On a somewhat related note, one of the people killed in last Thursday's shooting in East Jerusalem turns out to have been an Israeli civilian who shot and killed the two Hamas attackers and then was mistakenly gunned down by Israeli soldiers. Video footage apparently shows the man disarming, kneeling, and opening his shirt to demonstrate to the soldiers that he was not a threat, but one of them killed him anyway. The incident has raised issues regarding the trigger happiness of Israeli security forces and the wisdom of the Israeli government's armed vigilante program, which in addition to risking civilian Palestinian deaths also risks more “friendly fire” shootings like this one.* The Washington Post published a story this weekend about the hasty evacuation of al-Nasr Children's Hospital in northern Gaza last month. Without going into some of the grislier details, the staff was forced to evacuate by the IDF and left behind four premature infants who likely would not have survived relocation. They say Israeli officials told them the infants would be taken out in Red Cross ambulances but apparently they were left to die and, eventually, decompose. Reporters discovered their remains during the ceasefire. Israeli officials insist that they never ordered al-Nasr's evacuation and have questioned the veracity of the story, despite video evidence and a recording of a phone call that the IDF itself released in which an Israeli official appears to acknowledge the need to rescue patients from the facility. The Red Cross says it never agreed to assist the evacuation and that conditions in northern Gaza would have made it impossible for its personnel to get to al-Nasr to retrieve the infants.* I mention the al-Nasr story because it strikes me as especially galling. In general I'm trying not to focus heavily on individual atrocities or allegations of atrocities in compiling these newsletters—there would be no space for anything else otherwise. I hope readers don't mistake that for apathy about any of these stories, going back to and including the atrocities committed/allegedly committed by Gazan militants on October 7 (I know cases of sexual violence have been receiving heavy coverage of late). I feel my role here is to try to provide an overview and for me that means keeping some distance from specific events. I'm sure I don't do that consistently but it is my aim.SYRIAAccording to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that Saturday morning Israeli missile attack in the vicinity of Damascus killed at least two of its personnel who were in Syria on an “advisory” mission. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the strikes killed two Syrians who were affiliated with Hezbollah as well as two foreigners, presumably these IRGC members, while wounding five other people.YEMENHouthi rebels in northern Yemen fired a barrage of missiles and drones at ships in the Red Sea on Sunday. The group damaged three commercial ships and also fired at least three drones at the US naval destroyer USS Carney, which shot the projectiles down. There's no indication of any casualties and two of the vessels reported only minor damage (I'm unsure as to the status of the third). I would not be surprising if the US military were to retaliate against the Houthis in the near future, and there is a genuine risk that this could lead to a full-blown resumption of the Yemen war—though of course that would require Saudi Arabia's involvement.IRAQIraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaʿ al-Sudani reportedly told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a phone conversation on Saturday that Baghdad does not appreciate the US military carrying out attacks on Iraqi soil. The US attacked two Iraqi militia-linked targets on November 22 (during this newsletter's holiday pause), “killing nine pro-Iran fighters” in retaliation for attacks against US personnel according to AFP. Those attacks tapered off during the Gaza ceasefire, but as we know that ceasefire is no longer operative.On Sunday, US forces carried out a drone strike on a militia target in Iraq's Kirkuk province, killing at least five people and wounding five more. There was initially no indication as to responsibility (though one didn't exactly have to be Sherlock Holmes to solve this caper), but the US military later confirmed that it was responsible and characterized the strike as preempting “an imminent threat.”ASIAPAKISTANUnspecified gunmen attacked a bus in northern Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region late Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring at least 26 others. The bus driver was among those killed, along with the driver of a truck with which the bus collided. There's been no claim of responsibility and the main body of the Pakistani Taliban has taken the rare step of denying any involvement.PHILIPPINESA bombing targeting a Catholic mass killed at least four people and left several others wounded on the campus of Mindanao State University in the southern Philippine city of Marawi on Sunday. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack via Telegram. The previous day, the Philippine military said its forces killed at least 11 jihadist militants in nearby Maguindanao province in an attack targeting “suspected leaders and armed followers of the Dawla Islamiyah [i.e. ‘Islamic State'] and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters” to borrow the AP's verbiage. I don't know whether Sunday's bombing was planned in advance or was intended as a direct retaliation for Saturday's incident.AFRICAGUINEA-BISSAUThe president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, characterized Thursday night's gun battle between elements of the National Guard and his Presidential Palace Battalion as an “attempted coup” in comments to reporters on Saturday. Embaló had been out of the country attending the COP28 summit when the incident took place and said it had delayed his return to Bissau. National Guard commander Victor Tchongo is now in government custody, but Embaló appeared to suggest that there were other coup plotters behind Tchongo and said he would open an investigation into the incident on Monday. The National Guard is part of the Interior Ministry, which AFP says is “dominated” by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAICG). That party, which won June's parliamentary election and now controls the government, is opposed to Embaló.BURKINA FASOThe military governments of Burkina Faso and Niger announced on Saturday that they are both withdrawing from the G5 Sahel regional counterinsurgency force. That group was formed in 2014 with the aim of pooling resources to battle the various jihadist groups that were threatening Sahelian governments. It began deploying joint forces a couple of years later, but as you might already have concluded it's had minimal impact on the region's jihadist crisis. Mali's ruling junta quit last year, so of the original five member states only Mauritania and Nigeria still remain.ETHIOPIAOfficials in Ethiopia's Oromian regional government have accused the rebel Oromo Liberation Army of killing at least 36 civilians in attacks on three villages that took place on November 24 and 27. The OLA apparently hasn't commented and there's no confirmation of the government claim, but the alleged attacks took place not long after another round of peace talks between the OLA and Ethiopian government broke down, so it's conceivable the group decided to lash out in that moment. The OLA was formed as the military wing of the Oromo Liberation Front in the 1970s but broke away from the group's political leadership when the latter reached a peace accord with the Ethiopian government in 2018. It frequently attacks non-Oromo communities in Oromia, though authorities have only said that the victims of these attacks were Orthodox Christians without reference to ethnicity.EUROPEUKRAINERussian military operations in eastern Ukraine may have hit a couple of speed bumps over the weekend. For one thing, reports that emerged on Friday suggesting that the Russians had seized the town of Maryinka, southwest of the city of Donetsk, appear to have been a bit premature. Ukrainian forces are reportedly still in control of some parts of the town, including a coking plant, though that may change in relatively short order of course. Elsewhere, the Ukrainian military claimed on Saturday that Russian attacks on the city of Avdiivka had completely ceased for a full day. That too could change in a hurry, and indeed may already have changed by the time you read this, but it suggests the Russians were at least regrouping after spending the previous several days in what seemed like intense fighting to try to take the city.The Ukrainian government says it's investigating a claim that Russian soldiers summarily executed two surrendering Ukrainian military personnel. Details are minimal but there's a video of this alleged incident circulating on social media. Needless to say, intentionally killing surrendering soldiers is a war crime.FRANCEA knife-wielding attacker killed one German tourist and wounded two other people near Paris's Eiffel Tower late Saturday. The attacker is a French national who was on a French government “watch list,” had apparently pledged allegiance to Islamic State, and was also “known for having psychiatric disorders” according to Reuters. He cited the conflict in Gaza, among other triggers, to police after his arrest.AMERICASBRAZILBrazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Sunday that he has no intention of bringing Brazil into full membership in the OPEC+ bloc and would stick to “observer” status only, one day after he somewhat incoherently told reporters that he wanted to join the group of major oil producing nations to try to encourage them to stop producing oil. OPEC+ extended a membership offer to Brazil on Thursday, which I gather has raised some eyebrows given Lula's stated commitment to combating climate change. Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, is continuing to pursue new oil exploration, also despite Lula's climate change position, though he says his aim is to invest oil profits in non-fossil fuel energy alternatives (and to encourage OPEC+ nations to do likewise). Oil remains the cause of, and solution to, all of humanity's problems.VENEZUELAVenezuelans, or at least the ones who participated, apparently voted overwhelmingly in Sunday's referendum to support their country's territorial claim on western Guyana's Essequibo region. Election officials said that the vote was 95 percent in favor for all of its five clauses—the most contentious of which was a question about whether or not to declare Essequibo a new Venezuelan state and extend citizenship to its residents—though there's not much insight as to turnout. There's no indication that the Venezuelan government is planning any imminent steps to try to actualize its claim on Essequibo but the referendum has nevertheless caused some consternation in Guyana and internationally.UNITED STATESFinally, HuffPost's Akbar Shahid Ahmed offers some welcome reassurance that the worst Middle East “expert” in Washington is still central to the Biden administration's regional policy:Four men in Washington shape America's policy in the Middle East. Three are obvious: President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. The fourth is less well-known, despite his huge sway over the other three ― and despite his determination to keep championing policies that many see as fueling bloodshed in Gaza and beyond.His name is Brett McGurk. He's the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, and he's one of the most powerful people in U.S. national security.McGurk crafts the options that Biden considers on issues from negotiations with Israel to weapon sales for Saudi Arabia. He controls whether global affairs experts within the government ― including more experienced staff at the Pentagon and the State Department ― can have any impact, and he decides which outside voices have access to White House decision-making conversations. His knack for increasing his influence is the envy of other Beltway operators. And he has a clear vision of how he thinks American interests should be advanced, regarding human rights concerns as secondary at best, according to current and former colleagues and close observers.Indeed, even though McGurk has spent nearly 20 years giving bad advice about the Middle East to a succession of US presidents—and even though his fixation on Saudi-Israeli normalization at Palestinian expense may have helped trigger the October 7 attacks—his influence today appears to be greater than it's ever been. I'm sure that makes all of us feel a little better.Thanks for reading! Foreign Exchanges is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.foreignexchanges.news/subscribe

This is the web version of Foreign Exchanges, but did you know you can get it delivered right to your inbox? Sign up today:Friends, for family reasons and also because of my own mental exhaustion I will be taking a longer than usual break from the newsletter for this year's Thanksgiving holiday. The newsletter will be going quiet following Thursday's roundup and will return to our regular schedule on Tuesday, November 28. As I've written before here I can always tell when it's time for me to take a bit of a break from the newsletter and the truth is we probably passed that point around three or four weeks ago so I'm running on fumes. Thanks for reading and for supporting this venture!TODAY IN HISTORYNovember 14, 1965: The Battle of Ia Drang, the first major engagement between the United States and the North Vietnamese Army, begins. It ended on November 18 with both sides claiming victory, though the NVA's ability to fight the much better armed US Army to a draw was a boost to their morale and probably the battle's most important effect.November 14, 2001: Fighters with the Northern Alliance rebel coalition enter and occupy the city of Kabul, marking the end of the US war in Afghanista—just kidding. I had you going there for a second, didn't I?INTERNATIONALWith deaths due to “extreme heat” projected to increase five-fold by 2050, according to The Lancet Countdown, you'll no doubt be pleasantly surprised to learn that an AP investigative report shows that the “green transition plans” being formulated by most major fossil fuel companies are not green, not transitional, and not even really plans. Without any serious government pressure to force them to invest in genuinely renewable technologies, these firms are able to do things like, say, classify natural gas development as a “green” investment. That's absurd, of course, but who's counting?The main problem with these plans has long been, and continues to be, the fact that fossil fuel companies exempt the products they sell when assessing their progress toward “net zero” carbon emissions. Firms only account for “Scope 1” emissions, which are their direct carbon outputs, and “Scope 2” emissions, the indirect output that results from their production process. The emissions that ensue when people burn the products they sell are considered “Scope 3” and energy firms disavow any responsibility for them. Like tobacco companies, they argue that what the customer does with their products is the customer's business, not theirs. Maybe people just want to buy a barrel of oil and place it in their foyer as a conversation piece or put it to some other use that doesn't emit carbon. Who's to say?MIDDLE EASTISRAEL-PALESTINEEarly Wednesday morning Israeli forces began what they called “a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area in the Shifa hospital” involving “medical teams and Arabic speakers, who have undergone specified training to prepare for this complex and sensitive environment, with the intent that no harm is caused to the civilians.” There are hundreds of patients and thousands of other people who have been trapped in the hospital by the IDF and the chances that “no harm” will come to any of them in the next several hours are probably slim. Israeli officials have been insisting that Hamas's lair is located underneath the hospital but at this point it's too soon to know if that's the target or if this is a more limited operation. This is a developing story so there's not much more I can say about it at this time.What I can say is that the Biden administration gave a green light to this operation earlier in the day, when White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that the administration has “independent intelligence” (which is code for “we didn't get this from the IDF”) that “Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals in the Gaza Strip — including Al-Shifa — and tunnels underneath them to conceal and to support their military operations and to hold hostages.” According to Kirby this intelligence shows that the militant groups have a “command and control” center in Shifa and “have stored weapons there.” Kirby insisted that that the administration was not endorsing an Israeli attack on the hospital, but anybody with ears to hear or eyes to read what he said should have no doubt as to what the intent was.I wrote everything below prior to news of the Israeli assault breaking so some of it might no longer be relevant but I think most of it still is:Gazan health authorities said on Tuesday that some 40 patients at Shifa—three of them babies—have died since that facility ran out of generator fuel on Saturday. Without electricity the hospital cannot maintain its incubator units and so there are now 36 newborns who are at critical risk. With the IDF surrounding the hospital it's also become impossible to transfer the dead to a cemetery, so personnel are planning to bury some 120 bodies in a mass grave on site. Gazan officials have proposed evacuating the facility under the auspices of the Red Cross/Red Crescent and sending its remaining patients to Egypt but there had been no movement on that front at time of writing. The Israeli government has apparently offered to send the hospitals more incubators, a fascinating attempt at a humanitarian gesture that would be completely pointless because the problem isn't the incubators, it's the electricity.In other news:* David Ignatius at The Washington Post reported (I use that term loosely) on Monday that “Israel and Hamas are close to a hostage deal.” With the caveat that if David Ignatius told me the sky was blue I'd glance out the window to double check, the terms he reported are that Hamas would release (or facilitate the release) of the women and children that it and other Gazan militant groups took hostage during their October 7 rampage through southern Israel. This would be done in stages and be matched by the release of Palestinian women and children being held by Israeli authorities. It would also involve a ceasefire of unspecified duration but “perhaps five days” according to Ignatius. The ceasefire could allow some time to address humanitarian issues in Gaza though I don't know what that would entail and whatever it was would almost certainly be inadequate.* Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger on Tuesday and later told reporters that the ICRC has had no access to the aforementioned hostages. It's highly unlikely that the Israelis would agree to anything involving hostages without at least proof of life, so this could be a big sticking point with respect to the potential prisoner deal outlined above. Families of the hostages, meanwhile, are marching from Tel Aviv to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem to pressure him to take some action to secure the hostages' release.* Israeli occupation forces killed at least eight Palestinians in the West Bank on Tuesday, seven of them in Tulkarm. The IDF carried out a drone strike in that city, an occurrence that's still relatively rare in the West Bank though it's certainly become more common over the past year and in particular the past month.* Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich issued a statement on Tuesday endorsing what he laughably termed the “voluntary emigration of Gaza Arabs to countries around the world.” I guess “leave or die” is a choice, right? A couple of Israeli politicians floated this idea on Monday in a Wall Street Journal editorial that was less a serious proposal than a written middle finger to Western critics of the Israeli military campaign. That piece didn't go into extensive detail about what a mass relocation would look like—again, it wasn't meant as a serious proposal—but Smotrich's intent is much easier to guess, and that's the permanent ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the relocation of its population as far away from Israel as possible. Smotrich, whose ministerial brief also includes running the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories office, isn't part of Netanyahu's “war cabinet” but that doesn't mean he's completely lacking in influence.* The US and UK governments on Tuesday announced new sanctions targeting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members along with a Lebanese entity that allegedly facilitates money transfers from Iran to Gazan militant groups. This is the third round of sanctions the Biden administration has imposed since October 7. Also on Tuesday, over 400 employees of the Biden administration sent a joint letter to their boss, Joe Biden, expressing opposition to the administration's approach to the Gaza conflict.YEMENHouthi rebels say they fired another barrage of missiles toward Israel on Tuesday. There's no confirmation of this, though the IDF did say that its air defenses downed a single missile near Eilat that we can probably assume was of Houthi provenance. The leader of Yemen's Houthi movement, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, delivered a speech on Tuesday pledging that his rebel fighters would continue attacking Israel. In particular, Houthi suggested that they could target Israeli commercial vessels in the Red Sea, which would certainly be an easier target for them than Israel itself.IRAQA Turkish drone strike killed two people, both allegedly members of the Sinjar Resistance Units militia, in northern Iraq's Nineveh province on Monday evening. The Sinjar militia was formed in 2014 with assistance from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and is still allied with that group, which makes its personnel potential targets for the Turkish military.Elsewhere, the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court removed two members of the Iraqi parliament on Tuesday, one of whom just happened to be speaker Mohammed al-Halbusi. It's not clear why, though another MP named Laith al-Dulaimi had reportedly sued Halbusi alleging that the speaker forged Dulaimi's name on a resignation letter. Dulaimi was, as it happens, the other MP who had his term ended by the court (I assume that's not a coincidence). The ruling created a potential political crisis for Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaʿ al-Sudani. As speaker, Halbusi was Iraq's leading Sunni Arab politician, and his support was important to Sudani's government. Three members of his Progress Party quit their cabinet posts after the court ruling and it remains to be seen how that will impact Sudani's position.ASIAAFGHANISTANAfghan Commerce Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi apparently visited Pakistan this week, where—according to the Afghan government—he pressed Pakistani Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on the issue of all those Afghan migrants the Pakistani government is presently deporting. Specifically it sounds like Azizi raised the issue of allowing deportees to at least take some of their money and/or possessions to Afghanistan with them. Deportees are currently arriving with nothing and are being housed in what are effectively refugee camps—leaving aside the incongruity of being a “refugee” in one's home country—on the Afghan side of the border.MYANMARReports on Monday only hinted at some new fighting in western Myanmar's Chin state, but as more details are emerging the situation there sounds pretty serious. According to the Chin National Front, rebel fighters had by the end of the day seized two Myanmar military outposts and were working to seize control of the Myanmar-Indian border. According to Indian media the fighting has sent some 2000 people streaming across that border to escape. In neighboring Rakhine state, the rebel Arakan Army has also been seizing military outposts and authorities have imposed a curfew in the state capital, Sittwe, as a result. Rebel factions across Myanmar have launched new offensives in recent weeks, starting with the “1027” (for October 27) operations by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army in Shan state. Myanmar's ruling junta is clearly struggling to mount a response.CHINAJoe Biden told reporters on Tuesday that his main goal in meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco this week is to restore “normal” communications between their governments. In particular this would involve a return to regular military-to-military contacts, something Beijing ended in the wake of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan last year. Any prospect of resuming those contacts was complicated by the fact that former Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu was under US sanction. But as he's no longer defense minister that complication is no longer an issue.AFRICALIBERIALiberian voters turned out on Tuesday for the second round of that country's presidential election, pitting incumbent George Weah against Joseph Boakai. Both candidates finished with just under 44 percent of the vote in last month's first round. Such a close finish might augur poorly for the incumbent in a head to head matchup, though that's just one of many factors that could sway this vote in either direction. Polls have closed in that contest but I have yet to see anything by way of preliminary or partial results.MALIMali's ruling junta says its security forces have seized control over the northern town of Kidal after battling with rebels in that region for several days. The Malian military and mercenary auxiliaries marched on Kidal after United Nations peacekeepers vacated the region as part of their ongoing withdrawal from Mali. Kidal has been a rebel stronghold since the initial northern Mali uprising in 2012 and government control there has been nebulous at best since then. There's been no comment as far as I know from the rebels and it's unclear what their disposition is at this point.ETHIOPIAAccording to Addis Standard, Fano militia fighters attacked a predominantly Oromo community in Ethiopia's Amhara region last week, killing at least 25 people and displacing some 3000 into the Oromia region. The Fano militia is still battling the Ethiopian government but Amhara paramilitary groups have also made a pastime of preying on ethnic Oromo communities (likewise, Oromo militias have preyed on ethnic Amhara). In this case they apparently demanded grain from the community and attacked after residents refused to comply.On a more upbeat note, the US Agency for International Development is reportedly planning to resume food distribution across Ethiopia next month under a “one-year trial period.” The agency suspended its Ethiopian food program earlier this year amid allegations that the aid was being diverted. It resumed providing food aid to Ethiopian refugees last month and is now planning to spend the next year testing whether procedural changes adopted by aid groups and the Ethiopian government are enough to stop that alleged diversion. Solid data is hard to come by but it's possible that hundreds or thousands of Ethiopians have died because of the decision (which the UN World Food Program joined) to suspend food aid.DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGOThe death toll from Sunday's Allied Democratic Forces attack on a village in the eastern DRC's North Kivu province has risen to 33, according to provincial officials. ADF fighters are also believed to have been responsible for attacking a village in neighboring Ituri province on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people.EUROPERUSSIAVladimir Putin signed a new law on Tuesday that permits elections to be held even in parts of Russia that are under martial law. This apparently clears the way for the portions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed to participate in next year's presidential election. The effect will be to try to stitch those regions a little more tightly to Russia and complicate any possible return to Ukrainian authority.UKRAINEThe European Union promised back in March to supply the Ukrainian military with 1 million 155 mm artillery shells within 12 months. You'll never guess how that went. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told a meeting of EU defense ministers on Tuesday that the bloc isn't going to fulfill its commitment and even went so far as to criticize the fact that it was made in the first place. The will was apparently there, but EU member states still don't have the collective capacity to churn out that many shells that quickly. The effort has apparently sparked a boost in production capacity but not enough to meet the 12 month deadline.SWEDENSweden's NATO accession may be moving slightly forward, as the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee will take up the issue on Thursday. It's been about three weeks since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan submitted Sweden's accession to parliament and it should be clear by now that the folks in Ankara are in no particular hurry to work their way through that process. There may be some impetus on the part of other NATO members to have the issue resolved in time for the alliance foreign ministers summit on November 28, but Erdoğan has proven himself to be fairly impervious to that sort of pressure in the past.AMERICASUNITED STATESFinally, TomDispatch's William Hartung wonders whether the “Arsenal of Democracy” really cares all that much about the “democracy” part:The list of major human rights abusers that receive U.S.-supplied weaponry is long and includes (but isn't faintly limited to) Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Turkey, Nigeria, and the Philippines. Such sales can have devastating human consequences. They also support regimes that all too often destabilize their regions and risk embroiling the United States directly in conflicts.U.S.-supplied arms also far too regularly fall into the hands of Washington's adversaries. As an example consider the way the UAE transferred small arms and armored vehicles produced by American weapons makers to extremist militias in Yemen, with no apparent consequences, even though such acts clearly violated American arms export laws. Sometimes, recipients of such weaponry even end up fighting each other, as when Turkey used U.S.-supplied F-16s in 2019 to bomb U.S.-backed Syrian forces involved in the fight against Islamic State terrorists.Such examples underscore the need to scrutinize U.S. arms exports far more carefully. Instead, the arms industry has promoted an increasingly “streamlined” process of approval of such weapons sales, campaigning for numerous measures that would make it even easier to arm foreign regimes regardless of their human-rights records or support for the interests Washington theoretically promotes. These have included an “Export Control Reform Initiative” heavily promoted by the industry during the Obama and Trump administrations that ended up ensuring a further relaxation of scrutiny over firearms exports. It has, in fact, eased the way for sales that, in the future, could put U.S.-produced weaponry in the hands of tyrants, terrorists, and criminal organizations.Now, the industry is promoting efforts to get weapons out the door ever more quickly through “reforms” to the Foreign Military Sales program in which the Pentagon essentially serves as an arms broker between those weapons corporations and foreign governments.Thanks for reading! 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EMM and LMC: A Fellowship of Anabaptist Churches invite you to respond to a critical humanitarian appeal from the Meserete Kristos Church (or MKC) in Ethiopia. Since 2020, the southern Borena zone of the Oromia state has experienced severe drought due to 5 failed rainy seasons. It is estimated that 24 million people have been impacted by the drought — 11 million of whom are experiencing food insecurity.

The gardening "advice" we get may not always be accurate. Bury a whole egg under your tomato plants? Make a tea from banana peels? What advice is legit and what is bogus? Let's look at the scientific research behind common kitchen scraps that might also be used as garden amendments: banana peels, eggshells, teas leaves and spent coffee grounds. Say Thank You! Just Grow Something Gardening Friends Facebook Group Check out how you can become a patron on Patreon Follow me on Instagram Merchandise | Just Grow Something RESOURCES Comparative Study of Various Organic Fertilizers Effect on Growth and Yield of Two Economically Important Crops, Potato and Pea (scirp.org) Effects of banana peel compost rates on Swiss chard growth performance and yield in Shirka district, Oromia, Ethiopia - ScienceDirect Preparation of nano-fertilizer blend from banana peels | SpringerLink BIO-ORGANIC LIQUID FERTILIZER PRODUCTION FROM CHICKEN MANURE AND BANANA PEELS AND EVALUATING ITS EFFECTIVENESS ON LETTUCE (Lactuca sativa L.) UNDER HYDROPONIC CONDITION. (haramaya.edu.et) HEN EGGSHELL WASTE AS FERTILIZER FOR THE GROWTH OF PHASEOLUS VULGARIS (COW PEA SEEDS) Chicken eggshells as a soil amendment and their relationship with the morphological response of mustard plants (Brassica juncea, L.) - IOPscience The use of spent coffee grounds in growing media for the production of Brassica seedlings in nurseries | SpringerLink Agriculture | Free Full-Text | Spent Coffee Grounds Applied as a Top-Dressing or Incorporated into the Soil Can Improve Plant Growth While Reducing Slug Herbivory (mdpi.com) Acute Toxicity of Experimental Fertilizers Made of Spent Coffee Grounds | SpringerLink Impact of spent coffee grounds as organic amendment on soil fertility and lettuce growth in two Mediterranean agricultural soils: Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science: Vol 64, No 6 (tandfonline.com) Biblioteca Digital do IPB: Effect of fresh and composted spent coffee grounds on lettuce growth, photosynthetic pigments and mineral composition Use of Spent Coffee Ground Compost in Peat-Based Growing Media for the Production of Basil and Tomato Potting Plants: Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis: Vol 47, No 3 (tandfonline.com) Applying spent coffee grounds directly to urban agriculture soils greatly reduces plant growth - ScienceDirect --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/justgrowsomething/message

This month, your hosts Jaal Leelloo and Jaal Aangoo are rejoined by special guest Jaal Raggaatuu to discuss the launch of the new media platform Oromia Worldwide, the recently published political manifesto of the Oromo Liberation Army, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Oromo people in the Wollo region. Jaal Raggaatuu shares her process of establishing Oromia Worldwide, and her thoughts on the themes within the OLF-OLA manifesto. Diaspora efforts to advocate for the people of Wollo, as well as the liberation struggle in general, are also discussed. Listen and let us know what you think, you can reach us on our Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, @TeamFreeOromia. Visit olacommunique.com to read the OLF-OLA manifesto. Intro/outro song credit: "WBO Malee" by Sabboonaa Tafarraa.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Oromia and the Oromo people. Seenaa Jimjimo is Executive Director for the Oromo Legacy Leadership & Advocacy Association. The website is http://ollaa.org Seenaa is an Oromo-American born and raised in Ethiopia. She was a key player in the adoption of U.S. House Resolution 128 – an important factor in enabling change in Ethiopia in 2018. Take action at https://worldbeyondwar.org/oromia

The authorities in Ethiopia have banned parallel rallies by supporters of the Orthodox Church and those backing a breakaway group that was planned to be held in the capital, Addis Ababa. The Security and Intelligence Task Force said no permissions were issued for the rallies and warned citizens to keep off the venues. Its highest decision-making body, the synod, had called for the rally in Addis Ababa's main square to protest against the alleged government's support to breakaway clergy. The breakaway group also announced it would also hold rallies on the same day. The breakaway clergy accuses the church of maintaining a system of linguistic and cultural hegemony in which congregations in Oromia are not served in their native languages.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4090160/advertisement

Wat voor gevolgen heeft de bestorming in Brasilia voor president Lula? Al maanden waren er signalen voor een mogelijke couppoging in Brazilië, en gistermiddag kwam het daadwerkelijk tot een geweldsuitbarsting: Duizenden aanhangers van oud-president Bolsonaro bestormden verschillende overheidsgebouwen uit onvrede over het overdragen van de macht aan de linkse president Lula. Ze worden 'terroristen' genoemd in de Braziliaanse pers, maar ze zijn volgens analisten ook een symptoom van de woede die veel breder leeft in het land.  Want ook buiten de hoofdstad suddert het en dreigt geweld aan de oppervlakte te komen. Hoe nu verder voor de kersverse president? We vragen het Latijns-Amerika expert Ernesto Rodriguez Amari. Dreigt na Tigray een nieuwe burgeroorlog in Ethiopië? In Ethiopië lijkt het ene conflict zich af te wisselen met het andere. Na twee jaar oorlog lijkt de rust teruggekeerd in deelstaat Tigray. Maar nu lopen de spanningen op in een andere, veel grotere regio: Oromia. Dat conflict dreigt te escaleren tot een burgeroorlog. Wat is er aan de hand? We vragen het Mirjam van Reisen, hoogleraar Internationale Betrekkingen aan de universiteit van Tilburg. Uitgelicht: Senegal Aandacht voor de Senegalese hoofdstad Dakar. Die stad ontpopt zich steeds meer als dé cultuurhoofdstad van West-Afrika. Daarover correspondent Aida Grovestins.  Presentatie: Sophie Derkzen  

In this episode, J/Aangoo and J/Leelloo are joined by Professor Milkessa Midega Gemechu, a former Ethiopian government official, to discuss the war that is being waged by the Ethiopian military and Fano militia forces in Oromia, and the barbaric atrocities that were recently committed against Oromo civilians. Professor Milkessa shares his insights on the motivations and intent of the current Ethiopian regime, and the response of domestic and international entities to the abominable crimes suffered by Oromo people. Listen and let us know what you think, you can reach us on our Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, @TeamFreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

A prominent Ethiopian opposition party, Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice has called on the government to arm civilians so that they can defend themselves from attacks by rebels of the Oromo Liberation Army in the Oromia region. Ezema is one of the main opposition parties that agreed to work with the government, and its leader, Prof Berhanu Nega is the minister of education. Its call follows attacks that have claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, destroyed property, and displaced millions in western Oromia. The spokesman of the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front in northern Ethiopia, Getachew Reda, in a Twitter post accused federal authorities of fanning the conflict in Oromia.

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More aid arrives in Tigray region amid shaky truce+++Ethiopia's Oromia region rocked by air strikes, reports say+++What's in it for Cameroon's female entrepreneurs?+++DR Congo and Rwanda in fresh talks in Angola, Kagame absent+++ World Cup

Ethiopian ambassador Zenebe Kebede says federal forces acted in defence after TPLF attacked their positions in the recent flare-up of clashes in Tigray. But Tigray isn't the only hot spot experiencing violence in Ethiopia. We report on other attacks carried out in Oromia and listen to chilling accounts from local residents Also in the pod: We speak to an opposition leader in Chad who is trapped in his party headquarters after security forces arrested his supporters; A report on the death of twenty-one teenagers who died in a South African tavern concerns the victims' families. And we ask Malawi's Health secretary what is behind a recent spike in cholera cases in the country.

In this month's episode, J/Aangoo and J/Leelloo are joined by an eminent figure in the history of the Oromo liberation struggle, Abbaa Caalaa Lataa, a  founding member of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), to discuss his recently published autobiography entitled “Abbaa Caalaa Lataa: Jireenya fi Qabsoo ABO”, which translates to “Abbaa Caalaa Lataa: My life and the struggle of the Oromo Liberation Front”. Abbaa Caalaa shares some eye-opening and grounding truths about the arduous journey of establishing the OLF, and gives perspective to how the Oromo nation has reached the current stage in the liberation struggle. He also shares his thoughts on the new generation of freedom fighters, as well as lessons that can be applied to charting the way forward. Listen and let us know what you think, you can reach us on our Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, @TeamFreeOromia. Visit oromiasupport.org for further information and reports on human rights abuses in Oromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal. 

In this episode, your hosts Jaal Leelloo and Jaal Aangoo are joined again by Dr Trevor Trueman, director of the Oromia Support Group, to discuss the recent spate of massacres in Oromia, and how such atrocities are systematically used to propagate disingenuous narratives that serve anti-Oromo agendas. Dr Trueman describes the pattern of disinformation strategies that have been applied to numerous killings in Oromia, and explains how international institutions have come to possess an obfuscated view of human rights abuses in Ethiopia, which distorts their understanding of what would constitute real accountability and justice. Listen and let us know what you think, you can reach us on our Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, @TeamFreeOromia. Visit oromiasupport.org for further information and reports on human rights abuses in Oromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

To mark the end of Season Three of The Horn, Alan discusses a few major developments in the region with Crisis Group experts. First up, he speaks to William Davison, Senior Analyst for Ethiopia, to discuss the prospect for possible peace talks in Ethiopia after the humanitarian ceasefire declared in March between federal and Tigrayan forces. They discuss the recent welcome steps towards peace talks, the remaining hurdles towards holding such negotiations and the major obstacles that any peace talks will need to overcome. They also discuss Ethiopia's deteriorating economic situation and the ongoing insurgency in the Oromia region.Next, Alan speaks with Nelleke van de Walle, Project Director for the Great Lakes region, to discuss Kenya's recent diplomatic foray in the eastern DR Congo and how it is reshaping regional politics. Alan and Nelleke discuss the factors behind the warming ties between Kinshasa and Nairobi and the reasons for Kenya's recent initiatives towards the DR Congo. They discuss the proposal for the East African Community to deploy a joint force under Kenyan command to fight armed groups in the eastern DR Congo, and they unpack the recent peace talks Nairobi hosted between Congolese authorities and armed groups. They also chat about how the looming presidential election in Kenya could impact Nairobi's future diplomatic role. Finally, Alan talks to Nazanine Moshiri, Senior Analyst for Climate & Security in Africa. They break down the impact of the devastating historic drought hitting much of the Horn region. Nazanine explains which parts of the region are worst hit and outlines how this crisis is exacerbated by the global commodity shocks, which are driving up food prices as well. They also highlight the worrying repercussions, from major displacement to land disputes and intercommunal conflict. Back from recent visits to the northern Great Rift Valley and Laikipia county in Kenya, Nazanine talks about how the drought is upending life there and how the climate shocks are intermixing with rising political tensions and violence ahead of Kenya's elections.For more analysis, check out Crisis Group's Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regional pages.We want to hear from you! As Season Three of The Horn draws to a close, If you have any feedback or suggestions for topics you'd like us to cover next season, you can write to podcasts@crisisgroup.org or get in touch with Alan directly on Twitter, @AlanBoswell. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On June 19th, reports began to emerge of a mass atrocity in the Ethiopian region of Oromia committed against members of the Amhara ethnic group. This latest attack fits into a broader pattern of ethnic violence in Ethiopia since the outbreak of civil war in November 2020. Laetitia Bader is the Horn of Africa Director at Human Rights Watch. She contributed to a joint Human Rights Watch-Amnesty International report titled "We Will Erase You from This Land:  Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia's Western Tigray Zone."  The report finds evidence of an organized campaign of ethnic cleansing against Tigrayan people, which is occurring in the context of Ethiopia's ongoing civil war. 

Dozens of civilians were killed in the attacks in Ethiopia's Oromia region.

Today's episode is dedicated to honoring and celebrating the life of Dr. Fido Taddesse Ebba, a beloved leader and freedom fighter, and a co-founder of the Oromo Liberation Front, who passed away on the 1st May 2022. We are joined by special guest Jaal Xaha Abdi, also a founding member of the Oromo Liberation Front, and close friend of Dr. Fido, to commemorate the illustrious life of one of Oromia's national heroes. Listen and let us know what you think, you can reach us on our Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, @TeamFreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal. 

This week, your hosts Jaal Aangoo and Jaal Leelloo discuss the current escalation of war in Oromia, which is happening as a result of the recent declaration by the Ethiopian regime that they are on a mission to wipe out the Oromo Liberation Army in 30 days. April 15th is the annual commemoration of Oromo Martyrs Day, or Guyyaa Gootota Oromoo, and in honor of this day, OLA leaders have put out a call to the Oromo nation to strengthen their support for OLA, and to show up in the example of our heroes like never before. Listen in to hear the details of this message, directed at Oromo people at home and abroad.  Let us know what you think, you can reach us on our Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, @TeamFreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

Jaridani Aprili 14, 2022 na Leah Mushi -Watu milioni 7 wameambukizwa chagas, upimaji na tib ani muhimu:WHO/UNITAID -Tunazifuatilia taarifa kuwa Uingereza inataka kuwahamishia nchini Rwanda wasaka hifadhi -Programu za mlo shuleni ni daraja la kufikia ndoto za elimu kwa watoto masikini :WFP Kwenye makala, tumsikilize muuguzi Rebecca Deng ambaye ni mkimbizi wa Sudani Kusini aliyeko katika kambi ya wakimbizi ya Kakuma nchini Kenya na kupitia programu ya Uzazi Salama inayoendeshwa na Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuwahudumia wakimbizi UNHCR kwakushirikiana na Shirika la Msalaba Mwekundu nchini Kenya amekuwa akitoa elimu kwa jamii juu ya afya ya uzazi. Mashinani tunakutana na afisa wa lishe wa UNICEF akiwa Oromia, Ethiopia.

In this episode, Jaal Aangoo and Jaal Leelloo are rejoined by Dr Awol Allo, to discuss what the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has taught us about how the international community, and  particularly the West, relates to and responds to resistance movements against imperialism and movements for democratization in different parts of the world, and how this impacts the international perspective on conflict, war, and humanitarian crises in Oromia and Ethiopia. Listen and let us know what you think, you can reach us on our Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, @TeamFreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

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This week, your hosts Jaal Maroo and Jaal Aangoo are rejoined by Jaal Qaxalee, to discuss the overwhelming crises that are currently taking place across Oromia, and the worsening plight of Oromo refugees who are detained in Saudi Arabia.  Jaal Qaxalee explains the factors that are causing the suffering of Oromo people to intensify, both in Oromia and Saudi Arabia.  Listen and let us know what you think at (+1) 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @TeamFreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

Ukame mkali katika maeneo ya nyanda za chini huko Ethiopia uliosababishwa na mvua kutonyesha katika misimu mitatu mfululizo umekausha visima vya maji, kuua mifugo na kusababisha zaidi ya wananchi 2000 kuyakimbia makazi yao. Taarifa ya UNICEF inasomwa na Evarist Mapesa wa redio washirika Redio SAUT ya Mwanza Tanzania. Video ya shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuhudumia watoto, UNICEF ikionesha kambi ya wakimbizi wa ndani ya Awralyas, kwenye jimbo la Somali nchini Ethiopia, eneo ambalo ni makazi ya takriban watu 2000 wanaume, wanawake na watoto walioathirika na ukame.   Upepo mkali unavuma na kupeperusha vumbi! Makundi ya watu yamekusanyika yakiangalia mizoga ya mifugo yao iliyokufa kutokana na kukosa chakula na maji kwa muda mrefu, mizoga ya ng'ombe imesambaa kila mahala katika eneo hili la Ethiopia.  Bashir Sheik Mohammed ni mtaalamu wa lishe wa UNICEF na anasema mbali na ukame huu kusababisha watoto 155,000 kutoka maeneo ya Somali na Oromia kuacha shule ili waweze kusaidia wazazi wao kusaka maji, watoto wengi na wajawazito wanakabiliwa na utapiamlo, “UNICEF inasaidia vituo vya muda vya afya ikiwa ni njia mojawapo ya kuzuia, kugundua mapema na kutibu watoto wanaokabiliwa na utapiamlo mkali. Hii ni sehemu ya mkakati ambao tunauthamini katika kupunguza vifo visivyo vya lazima miongoni mwa watoto, na hii ni sehemu muhimu katika harakati za kuokoa maisha , kuweka mazingira safi, kutibu utapiamlo na matibabu mengine ya magonjwa ya kawaida na ikiwa ni pamoja na kutoa chanjo.”  Kauli ya Bashiri inathibitishwa na Iman Magan aliyepata huduma hiyo, “naitwa Iman Magan, ninatoka Wilaya ya Debele. Niliondoka Gelile-el mapema leo asubuhi. Kule kuna ukame mkali. Kuna kiu kubwa, uchovu, na shida nyingine nyingi. Hali ni ngumu. Mtoto wangu anateseka, na tunakabiliwa na changamoto. Nilikuja kutafuta dawa kwa ajili ya mtoto wangu. Alichunguzwa na kukutwa na utapiamlo. Alipewa dawa na vyakula vyenye lishe. Nimepata huduma bora.”  Hadi sasa katika maeneo yaliyoathiriwa na ukame katika mikoa ya Oromia na Somali nchini Ethiopia, kuna takriban watu  milioni 4.4 wakikabiliwa na uhaba mkubwa wa maji kati yao hao ni watoto 850,000 wanaougua utapiamlo.  UNICEF inaomba dola milioni 351 kwa ajili ya matibabu ya utapiamlo na pia mahitaji mengine ya kibinadamu nchini Ethiopia     

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IJA OROMIA (meaning The Eye of Oromia) is an international organization focused onproviding in-depth reporting on human rights violations in the Oromia state of Ethiopia. In this episode we were joined by Omar, a team member from the organization, to discuss more about their operations and reporting. Listen and let us know what you think at (+1) 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @TeamFreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

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Join us for this discussion about how to make sense of the current crisis in Ethiopia. How should progressives make sense of the government of Ethiopia, alongside the Amhara regional militia, launching a genocidal attack on the country's northern Tigray region — even going as far as inviting neighboring Eritrea to join in on the atrocities? NGOs have documented some of the torture, sexual assault, starvation and state violence uniquely directed at Tigray — including Eritrean refugees who lived there prior to the war — but without providing broader analysis of the historical and contemporary political forces driving the conflict. The panelists in this forum will juxtapose the Tigray genocide with the #OromoProtests movement — which ousted the previous regime — seeking to rectify legacies of conquest and enslavement in an Ethiopian empire best described as a “prison house of nations”. The mainstream media and humanitarian organizations count casualties from the standpoint of nowhere, and some claiming to represent the international left, like the ANSWER Coalition and the Black Alliance for Peace, which co-organized the November 21 coordinated rallies, approach the war through a US-centric prism and defend the Abiy government. In contrast, a grounded political analysis that rejects US imperialism and genocide is possible if we ask a different set of questions. How should we understand the #TigrayGenocide in relation to conscription in Oromia by the federal government and reports of the Tigrayan Defense Force committing atrocities in Amhara, Afar and against Eritrean refugees? What do the Qimant, Somali or those of the 83+ nationalities forcibly incorporated into Ethiopia tell us about how state formation got us here and what's politically possible to get us out? Speakers: J. Khadijah Abdurahman is founder and Director of We Be Imagining at Columbia University's INCITE Center and the American Assembly's Democracy and Trust Program. They are also a Tech Impact Network Research Fellow at NYU's AI Now Institute in partnership with UCLA's C2I2 and UWA Law School. Their research focus is on predictive analytics in the New York City child welfare system and the role of tech in mass atrocities in the Horn of Africa. Maebel Gebremedhin is the founder and president of Tigray Action Committee, a nonprofit committed to helping end the suffering of millions of Tigrayans due to the #TigrayGenocide. Ayantu Tibeso is a scholar focusing on transnational Indigenous Oromo knowledge production and archival erasure in the construction of Ethiopian national narratives. She is a Cota-Robles Fellow and doctoral student in Information Studies at UCLA. Recent article by Ayantu Tibeso & J. Khadijah Abdurahman: “Tigray, Oromia, and The Ethiopian Empire”: https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/against-genocide/tigray-oromia-and-the-ethiopian-empire Recent from Maebel Gebremedhin: "Will My Tigrayan Family Ever Really Be Free?": https://www.thecut.com/2021/10/my-tigrayan-family.html Moderator: Promise Li is an activist and writer from Hong Kong and Los Angeles. He organizes international solidarity work with Internationalism from Below and Lausan Collective. This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Internationalism From Below, Africa Is A Country, and Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/sMTdgtzoiro Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

This week, your usual co-host Jaal Aangoo and return guest co-host Jaal Leelloo, are joined by global governance scholar and former humanitarian worker, Denebo Wario, to discuss the emerging prospect of independence for Oromia from a human rights and international law perspective. Denebo shares illuminating insights about global trends in state formation, and explains why restoring sovereignty to Oromia is an indisputable question of fundamental human rights. Listen and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

In our latest, your usual co-hosts (Jaal Aangoo & Jaal Maroo) are joined by special guest Raajii Guddataa to discuss state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing in Oromia. We also touch on some recent updates from Oromia's defense force, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA). Listen and let us know what you think at (+1) 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @TeamFreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

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In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Martha Kuwe Kumsa asks Ermias Tasfaye, Ethiopia Insight administrator and reporter focused primarily on Oromia, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP's 'EIEP: Prosperity Party's win is a loss for Oromia—and Ethiopia'.

The mission's head says forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have looted the US government humanitarian agency's warehouses in the neighbouring Amhara state.The head of USAID in Ethiopia told state television that Tigrayan fighters had emptied warehouses, taking food and other items also stole trucks.He says they had caused a great deal of destruction in the villages they went to.Last week, officials in Amhara accused Tigrayan forces of killing about 40 civilians and destroying schools, hospitals and other facilities.The Tigray rebel forces have formed an alliance with a rebel group in the country's largest state of Oromia, threatening a far larger part of Ethiopia.

The mission's head says forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have looted the US government humanitarian agency's warehouses in the neighbouring Amhara state.The head of USAID in Ethiopia told state television that Tigrayan fighters had emptied warehouses, taking food and other items also stole trucks.He says they had caused a great deal of destruction in the villages they went to.Last week, officials in Amhara accused Tigrayan forces of killing about 40 civilians and destroying schools, hospitals and other facilities.The Tigray rebel forces have formed an alliance with a rebel group in the country's largest state of Oromia, threatening a far larger part of Ethiopia.

The mission's head says forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have looted the US government humanitarian agency's warehouses in the neighbouring Amhara state.The head of USAID in Ethiopia told state television that Tigrayan fighters had emptied warehouses, taking food and other items also stole trucks.He says they had caused a great deal of destruction in the villages they went to.Last week, officials in Amhara accused Tigrayan forces of killing about 40 civilians and destroying schools, hospitals and other facilities.The Tigray rebel forces have formed an alliance with a rebel group in the country's largest state of Oromia, threatening a far larger part of Ethiopia.

Ace is an expert political with a focus on the 3rd world. 21 years ago, Ace moved to the US from Oromia, a nation who is fighting for independence from Ethiopia 

Twin bomb attacks at Kabul airport targeted people desperate to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. Dozens of people died including US military personnel. Also: reports from Ethiopia say ethnic violence has left many people dead in the troubled Oromia region, and the hotter planets outside our solar system that astronomers say may support life.

This week, your hosts Jaal Maroo and Jaal Aangoo  were rejoined by Jaal Raggaatuu, co-founder of Walaboomuu Coalition, to discuss the prospect and applicability of a referendum for Oromia's political future, and what the implementation of a referendum might look like in Ethiopia's tumultuous political context. Listen and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project's Martha Kuwee Kumsa asks Yared Tsegaye, an Ethiopia Insight reporter based in Addis Ababa, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP's 'Pushing boundaries in Ethiopia's contested capital'.

This week, your usual hosts J/Maroo and J/Aangoo discuss the recent ground-breaking establishment of an Oromia Regional National Transitional Government (ORNTG). As a member of the Organizing Committee in the Diaspora for the ORNTG, our very own Jaal Aangoo shares information about what it is and who it has been established by, and answers questions about what the ORNTG will mean for Oromia.  Listen and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

This week your usual co-host Jaal Maroo was joined once again by Jaal Urgaa (filling in for Jaal Aangoo -- don't worry, she'll be back next week!), as well as by special guest Henok Gabisa. Henok discussed with J/Maroo and J/Urgaa the Eritrean troops' invasion of Oromia (alongside the  Ethiopian military and Amhara militias) and the broader implications in the war on Oromia. We hope you enjoy this discussion as much as we did! Listen and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

Fileiras de terroristas em Cabo Delgado estão a engrossar graças ao rapto de crianças, denuncia Observatório do Meio Rural. Em Luanda, elevado número de mortes por malária faz disparar venda de caixões. Eleições gerais na Etiópia decorrem em ambiente pacífico apesar dos conflitos internos.

Etiópia realiza, esta segunda-feira (21.06), eleições regionais e legislativas. Declarado fim do surto de cólera em Cabo Delgado, em Moçambique, autoridades pedem reforço de medidas de higiene. Learning by Ear - Aprender de Ouvido.

Ethiopia is set to hold delayed elections on 21 June, a milestone that – before the ongoing war in the Tigray region – many observers believed would be a litmus test for the transition under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Violent flare-ups in various parts of the country, a poll boycott by some opposition groups and postponed votes in several locations all cast a shadow over the landmark election.Joining Alan for a discussion on what to expect from the process under these circumstances is William Davison, Crisis Group's Senior Analyst for Ethiopia. He unpacks the rising instability, including the growing insurgencies in the Benishangul-Gumuz and Oromia regions. They discuss how political parties are vying for support amid a surge in ethno-nationalism and the fierce debate over the constitutional structure. They also flesh out different post-election scenarios for Ethiopia given the many outstanding questions about how to resolve the country's deep rifts.For more information, explore Crisis Group's analysis on our Ethiopia page. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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This week, your hosts J/Maroo and J/Aangoo  were joined by Professor Bedassa Tedassa, Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, to discuss the economic considerations of independence. Professor Bedassa recently presented at the Oromo Studies Association mid-year conference on “The Economic Costs of Colonization: examining the prospects for economic self-determination under different governance models.” Dr Bedassa shares some astounding insights on what the economic costs of the colonization of Oromia have been, as well as what the economic benefits of decolonization through independence would be. Listen and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal.

The Ethiopian parliament has endorsed a recent cabinet decision to classify the Tigray People's Liberation Front -TPLF, which has long dominated Ethiopian politics and until recently ruled the Tigray region, as a terrorist organization. The resolution, which was unanimously passed by ruling party MPs, also includes the Oromo Liberation Army -OLA, an armed group active in the Oromia and Amhara regions. The classification of the TPLF as a terrorist entity makes the prospect of peace talks in Tigray even more complicated, six months after the federal army launched a major military operation to overthrow the regional authorities there. According to Professor Constantinos Berhuetefsa, who is an Ethiopian Political expert, the designation of the two groups as terrorists will jeopardise mediation talks.

In today's episode, your usual co-hosts J/Maroo and J/Aangoo are joined once again by the fabulous guests J/Waaqoo and J/Meessaa to discuss current events and the human rights crisis in Western Oromia. They also discuss the Ethiopian government's recent categorization of "Shene" as a terrorist organization. Take a listen and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal. 

Learn from your existing inheritors and the predecessors/past founders (this is a correction to our all fallacies) must be done continuously reading the true history of past from those of the past one, especially from political doers of actions, (changes of games), (to make things happen one must study history and a biography of the people who made things happen, not opportunists that have no vision that create/restore free nations like Oromia.) The vital reason for lessons must be taken from one is contemporary and ancient is that the contemporary understands the current situation (somewhere our ideas and values are far better that those of previous generation for the reasons of mass social and technological changes we are going through, but in so many ways we also should not yes, we are still in developing/poor nation in every aspect those any nations could be measured with). Anyway for Oromo taking the fight after the predecessors not only challenging but abandoning the predecessors intents for resistance, values, and lessons is self-defeats, and...

Another Ethiopian delight from our very good friend Israel Degfa (who you may know from Ana Sora)! This is our fifth year of buying from him, and we're really excited to have a new coffee from him for 2021. For those of you who may not be familiar with Israel, he's a second-generation coffee farmer who grew up immersed in various aspects of the coffee industry. His father was a mill manager and his mum sold coffee in the local bus station to commuters.  My last visit to Ethiopia was in December 2019 and I'm so pleased I was able to potter by and catch up with Israel before all this pandemic hoo-hah kicked off. Stevie Storytime

Another Ethiopian delight from our very good friend Israel Degfa (who you may know from Ana Sora)! This is our fifth year of buying from him, and we're really excited to have a new coffee from him for 2021. For those of you who may not be familiar with Israel, he's a second-generation coffee farmer who grew up immersed in various aspects of the coffee industry. His father was a mill manager and his mum sold coffee in the local bus station to commuters.  My last visit to Ethiopia was in December 2019 and I'm so pleased I was able to potter by and catch up with Israel before all this pandemic hoo-hah kicked off. Stevie Storytime

This week, two of your usual hosts, J/Aangoo and J/Maroo, are joined again by J/Hawwinee and for the first time by J/Qaxalee. Sadly J/Hawwii was not in the studio for this one, but he will be back soon. In this episode the hosts discuss independent journalism in Oromia and Ethiopia, and the role of Oromo media in qabsoo/the struggle. Take a listen to this episode and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal. 

In this episode, your usual hosts are joined by Jaal Raggaatuu for part 2 of the discussion we started last week (with episode 13) about Oromia's independence and the benefits of a free Oromia. This week we dive deeper. Song credit for "Si Eegeen Dadhabe" goes to Andualem Gosa and Vision Entertainment. Take a listen to this episode and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal. 

In this episode, your usual hosts are joined by Jaal Raggaatuu for a discussion about Oromia's independence and the benefits of a free Oromia. This discussion with J/Raggaatuu is broken into two parts, so come back next week for the follow-up in episode 14. Take a listen and let us know what you think at 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text), or reach us on our Instagram or Twitter @teamfreeOromia. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal. 

The focus of this final episode of season 1 is Ethiopia, where the ongoing conflict between the federal government in Addis and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front that controls the Tigray region, is making daily news headlines.Ever since becoming the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in 2018, Abiy Ahmed has undertaken several bold reforms. He has also appointed women in key official positions and freed political prisoners. His efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular his efforts to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea resulted in him being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019. But there have also been critical voices within the country that have warned against an over-reliance on charisma and announcing major initiatives without adequate preparation and anticipation of potential consequences. Thus, despite the frenetic pace of change the country has witnessed since 2018, many Ethiopians have remained worried over growing income inequality, high levels of youth unemployment, and simmering tensions and factional battles within the ruling coalition. Ethiopia has been one of Africa’s fastest growing economies for the past decade and a half and there has been considerable talk of the country’s rise as potentially the only true “developmental state” in Africa. In addition to rapid economic growth, signature development projects such as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have given rise to comparisons with East Asian successes such as South Korea and Taiwan. A country that typically made world headlines for abject poverty and sensational famines, is now considered to be one of the most promising economies on the continent. Ethiopia is also a major contributor to UN peacekeeping operations, which has strengthened its identity as an important security provider externally while at the same time guaranteeing peace and stability for international investors within the country. But the country has also continued to face major obstacles such as its conflict with Egypt over water-sharing agreements, the viability of democratic reforms, and the future of its federal political setup. And now there are widespread fears that a civil war will not only spread and exacerbate ethnic tensions within the country but also destabilise the Horn of Africa. My guest on the show today is Kjetil Tronvoll, who is a well-known Ethiopia expert and is a professor of Peace and Conflict studies at Bjorknes University College in Norway.He has undertaken long-term fieldwork in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Zanzibar, in addition to shorter field studies many countries on the African continent. In addition to publishing extensively on human rights, transitional justice, elections and peace, reconciliation and conflict, Kjetil has served as an advisor to political reconciliation processes and international peace meditating initiatives. He has also participated in election observer missions in several African countries. Follow Kjetil Tronvoll on TwitterFollow Dan Banik and In Pursuit of Development on TwitterResources:“In-depth analysis: Towards Tigray Statehood?”, Addis Standard (May 2020)“Abiy Ahmed Won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now He Needs to Earn It.”, New York Times, op.ed. (October 2019)“Putting Humpty Dumpty together again: the restoration of EPRDF”, Addis Standard (March 2019)“Ethiopian elite lost in electoral maze under Abiy’s gaze”, OpenDemocracy (February 2019) T. Østebo and K. Tronvoll (2020), “Interpreting contemporary Oromo in Ethiopia: an ethnographic approach”, Journal of Eastern African Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2020.1796255K. Tronvoll (2020) “'Brothers at Peace’: People-to-People Reconciliation in the Eritrean-Ethiopian Borderlands”, War and Society, 39:1, pp. 58-76, DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2019.1701618

In episode 3, co-hosts J/Aangoo and J/Maroo are joined by special guests J/Urgaa and J/Hawwinee. Don't worry - J/Hawwii will be back next episode! In this episode we discuss the US election and the war on Tigray, and the ways in which both of these events impact us as Oromos and impact Oromia as a whole. What are your thoughts? Give us a call or text at 430-755-0727, and make sure to subscribe and rate this podcast! Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal

Alta comissária de direitos humanos emitiu nota pedindo calma na região etíope de Tigray, no norte do país, e para onde o governo enviou tropas federais; tensão entre forças regionais e nacionais começou na semana passada, atingindo também a região de Oromia. Uma parceria da Agência Radioweb e da Rádio ONU News.

This is an urgent segment addressing current events in Ethiopia, prompted by the alleged attacks in Guliso and the associated reactions. We will resume our regularly scheduled programming with Episode 2 to be released on Thursday, November 5, 2020. 

Welcome to the Free Oromia Podcast. In episode 1, we discuss what Team Free Oromia is, the origin story of how we started this podcast, and what we are striving to achieve with this platform. This is a platform where we will be discussing all things freedom. The Free Oromia Podcast, and Team Free Oromia in general, strives to help us all to envision an independent and sovereign Oromia. Take a listen, and share with friends! Be sure to visit our website (freeoromia.org), follow us on Instagram & Twitter (@TeamFreeOromia), like our Facebook page (/TeamFreeOromia), and call in to our podcast hotline (430) 755-0727‬. Intro/outro song credit: "Rosamo" by Yasiin Bouba, OGE_R, and Adill Jamaal

I'm wondering. Is there a link between the second coming, the destruction of Ethiopian politics and the Pentay church. Locusts are destroying the farms, the people are dying, political opponents are jailed, Oromia is being infiltrated by Eritrean soldiers, all whilst Abiy entertains Isaias and rides on kids motorcycles. The shame. The departure of the Holy Spirit. God be with what is left of Ethiopia

Keeping it real about what it means to be a true pan-africanist and how not calling out the human rights violations against Oromo people takes away from overall Black liberation.

At least 500 Ethiopian Christians reported slaughtered in relentless door-to-door attacks since June An Ethiopian Christian leader called for an international inquiry into the slaying of hundreds of Christians, including pregnant women, children and whole families, in ongoing Oromo Muslim extremist attacks in the parts of the Oromia regional state, extending south, south-east and east of Addis Ababa, since the end of June. According to reports, more than 500 were killed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Hiwot summarizes the major news topics of the week from Oromia.

Megan is a zoologist, presenter, conservationist and photographer.  We spoke about raptor persecution and the controversies of grouse shooting, her upcoming book and her time presenting Springwatch and co-founding the Self Isolation Bird Club during Lockdown - you can find more about Megan's work here: https://www.instagram.com/megan_mccubbinphoto/?hl=en and here https://twitter.com/meganmccubbin. Follow the podcast on Instagram - coffee_with_conservationists / follow me - george_brynmor  on Instagram Coffee Notes - Owen's Coffee Info - Dart medium ground coffee, dark roast Origin - Filter blend from the Cajamarca region of Peru and the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Roast Date - Unknown Tasting Notes - Honey and citrus Learn more about Owen's Coffee - https://owenscoffee.com/ Music - "Heron Island" by Richard Bentley - https://www.smallsilence.org/

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.07.22.215590v1?rss=1 Authors: Negera, E., Demissie, T. M., Tafess, K. Abstract: COVID-19 has a potential to cause chaos in Ethiopia due to the country's already daunting economic and social challenges. Living and working conditions are highly conducive for transmission, as people live in crowded inter-generational households that often lack running water and other basic sanitary facilities. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of Ethiopians toward COVID-19 following the introduction of state of emergency by the Ethiopian government to curb the spread of the disease. A cross-sectional study design was conducted in nine reginal states and two chartered cities. Data for demographic, Knowledge, attitude and practice toward COVID-19 were collected through telephone interview from 1570 participants. Descriptive and bivariate analyses using chi-square test, t-test or analysis of variance were performed as appropriate. Binary and multiple logistic regression analysis were used to measure the relationship between the categorical dependent variables and one or more socio-demographic independent variables with two-tailed at =0.05 significance level and 95% of confidence interval. The level of good knowledge, favourable attitude and good practice among the respondents were 42%, 53.8% and 24.3% respectively. Being rural resident, older than 50 years, having at least primary education, being resident of Amhara and Oromia regions were independent predictors of knowledge level. While being rural resident, married, employed, having at least basic education, being residents of Afar, Amhara, Gambela, Oromia and Somali regions were found to be the best predictors of the attitude, being rural resident, government employee, having at least basic education, and living outside of the capital were the independent predictors of practice level of the respondents. The finding revealed that Ethiopians have inadequate level of knowledge and are generally have a mixed outlook on overcoming the pandemic with poor adherence to COVID-19 prevention practice. reinforcing preventive measures and intensifying sensitization campaigns to fill the knowledge gap and persuading people to follow the preventive measures set by the government with concurrent evaluation of the impacts of these measures on knowledge and practice is highly recommended to mitigate the disease. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Dr. Hamdesa Tuso, Historian Brian Knowles and Dr. JP Linstroth join panel to discuss the current racial climate in America and its global reverberation. Dr. Hamdesa Tuso is a first time guest to program. Bio: he was born and raised in Oromia in the Ethiopian Empire. He began his activism for social justice during his high school - he joined the Arsie Basic Schools Movement (ABSM) when he was in grade nine and served in the leadership role for six years. ABSM was established to spread literacy among the peasants in the Rift Valley of Oromia. In addition, ABSM advocated for social change and justice for the landless peasants who were being exploited and abused by the absentee landlords during the feudal reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. His journey in search of more knowledge led him to pursue higher education in Australia and North America. He attended Avondale College, NSW, Australia, receiving a B.A. and subsequently pursued his graduate education at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, where he received his M. A., and Michigan State University where he obtained his Ph.D. Professor Tuso started his professional career in the field of international education. He served as the International Student Advisor for five years and the Director of the Office of International Programs and Services for three years (both at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia). During the last three decades, Dr. Tuso has taught at five universities in the field of Peace & Conflict Studies in U. S. and Canada – more he recently taught at the Department of Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. During the last three decades, he has played in critical roles in the formation of several Oromo organizations – the Oromo Committee for Immigration & Refugees (OCIR, Chair), Oromo Community Organizations (OCR, Chair), Oromo Studies Association (OSA) (founder), Shanachaa Jaarsummaa (Chair) (www.shanachajaarsummaa). He is the Director of the African Working Group (AWG) www.(africaworkingroup.net) and he served as Associate Editor of the Horn of Africa Journal for over 10 years. For further information regarding Professor Tuso’s professional accomplishments, research & publications, and history of activism for social justice and peacemaking activities, you may visit his website (www.hamdesa.com). “DISCUSSIONS OF TRUTH” “ANTI-RACISM, COLONIALISM, & EDUCATION” July 8th, 2020 Recap overview: • Mr. Brian Knowles, Manager, African, African-American, Latino, and Gender Studies, School District of Palm Beach County (PBCSD) • Dr. Hamdesa Tuso, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and Justice, University of Manitoba Topic discussion points: Anti-Racism, Colonialism, & Education. Quick synopsis: Mr. Brian Knowles brings to the discussion his views about the “Eurocentric” problems associated with the American education system. He believes a greater effort needs to be made to “decolonize” American education and to make certain all voices are heard as equals. Dr. Hamdesa Tuso, who has spent the majority of his life living in exile as an Oromo-Ethiopian and having lived in Australia, the United States, and Canada, demonstrates through his academic acumen an understanding of colonialism and racism. It is important to place the current era following the murder of the African-American, George Floyd, in perspective and where we may go from here in terms of conflict resolution and dialogue and peacebuilding. The discussion on anti-racism and racism was lively and demonstrates how much needs to be done to make progress and to create a better environment about these sensitive issues and to address “racism”, not only in the United States, but wherever it exists. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/iantrottier/support

Abrimos com LE MONDE que titula, Macron separa-se de Édouard Philippe. O primeiro ministro apresentou hoje a sua demissão e não será renomeado nas funções. Com a saída de Édouard Philippe, o chefe de Estado vira uma página que durou 3 anos.  Numa entrevista à imprensa regional, Macron, disse que ia formar uma nova equipa para os próximos dois anos do seu mandato. Ao apresentar as grandes linhas do novo caminho que pretende seguir para relançar o país, Macron advertiu que o novo ano político será difícil e que temos que nos preparar, acrescenta, LE MONDE. Macron quer manter a rota do seu mandato, replica em título, LE FIGARO. Foi o último acto hoje do mandato com Macron a querer um novo caminho que almeja traçar até 2022. Na entrevista à imprensa reigional tira lições da epidemia do coronavírus e adverte que o ano será difícil no plano económico, sublinha, LE FIGARO.  Por seu lado, L'HUMANITÉ, titula sobre a escola que já está sob pressão antes mesmo do novo ano lectivo. O encerramento, a continuidade pedagógica e depois o desconfinamento caótico agravaram as falhas do sistema. Um sistema que tem de ser repensado para continuar a assumir a sua missão de educar os  nossos filhos. No seu editorial intitulado pedido de renovação, L'HUMANITÉ, nota no tocante ao vector económico que os detentores do capital desdobram-se em esforços para golpear o mundo do trabalho numa altura em que a sociedade é convidada a reflectir sobre o seu futuro por causa da crise sanitária.    No internacional, LE MONDE, destaca a conivência entre a chanceler alemã, Angela Merkel e a presidente da Comissao europeia, Von der Leyen que querem lançar um plano de recuperação económica europeia já a partir deste verão. As duas dirigentes têm o mesmo objectivo que é de fazer tudo para que seja aprovado o plano de 750 mil milhões de euros lançado pela Comissão europeia em maio  inspirando-se do plano proposto pela França e Alemanha, acrescenta, LE MONDE. Sistema totalitário chinês alargado a Hong Kong  Hong Kong, o medo, é o título, do LIBÉRATION. Centenas de prisões e uma redução drástica das liberdades, com a entrada em vigor na terça-feira da nova lei de segurança imposta pelo partido comunista chinês, matando assim o princípio de um país, dois sistemas estendo assim ao arquipélago o sistema totalitário chinês. É uma viragem histórica pondo fim à autonomia do território de Hong Kong em relação a Pequim, nota, LIBÉRATION.  Santa Sofia o combate de Erdogan, é o título do jornal, LA CROIX. A Justiça estudou ontem a reconversão em mesquita da antiga basílica respondendo a um pedido de longa data do presidente turco. É o sonho de Erdogan que quer mudar o estatuto da basílica e apagar a herança laica de Mustafá Kemal. O Supremo tribunal administrativo deve dar a sua decisão dentro de 15 anos, sobre esta questão religiosa explosiva, sabendo que a basílica de Santa Sofia foi no passado uma mesquita e tem sido agora um museu, nota, LA CROIX.   Em relaçao à Áftrica, LE MONDE, destaca a morte de um  cantor oromo põe a Etiópia a ferro e fogo. Cerca de 100 pessoas foram mortas após o assassínio de Hachalu Hundessa. Era um cantor mlitante numa Etiópia impaciente de sair do sistema do autoritário e esgotado. Mas também um intérprete que cantava a música mais bela e pura do país ou do desejo do povo oromo de querer um novo destino para a Etiópia. Hachalu Hundessa, foi assassinado aos 34 anos na segunda-feira em Adis Abeba. Desde então a sua região Oromia entrou em convulsão e ainda ontem dia do seu enterro ficou marcado pela violência, acrescenta, LE MONDE.  

In this solo episode, Merry takes on unpacking the history of Oromo people in Ethiopia and why it's okay to have a different opinion than your parents. Follow our Instagram and Twitter to stay informed and see you next week! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The funeral has been held for Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa as unrest over his death has spread from the Oromia region where he was seen as a hero. Mystery surrounds the "completely unprecedented" deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months. Some brands selling skin lightening creams have chosen to change the names of their products after coming under scrutiny.

At least 50 people have been killed in Ethiopia’s Oromia region during violent protests over the killing of a popular musician and activist. In Nigeria restrictions on inter-state travel have officially been lifted. And we hear from a Nigerian hairdresser and musician in Italy, singing out life's frustrations.

Guest: Jean - Jacques Cornish, Africa Correspondent Topics: Washington ambassador to Zimbabwe summoned over remarks by national security advisor. Democratic Republic of Congo hit by new EBOLA outbreak. Ethiopia angrily reject Amongst International report about soldiers killing in Oromia

Special archived report from Ethiopia with Mohommed Ademo Amo about the Oromia state.   Oromo pride opinion piece. Oromo is the largest ethnic group with about ½ of the population of Ethiopia. Oromo region is about the size of Texas. They lack control over their affairs. The central government is in control. They are coming out of a monarchy. The Oromo region is the most fertile area in the country. Resources are not supporting the local people. They want release of all political prisoners, change domination by one ethnic group, Opening of the democratic State, Equalization of benefits from the economy between rich and very poor.    Ethiopia is 2nd behind Syria for numbers of jailed and killed journalists. Bloggers are being targeted now. Recorded 2017-03-14. Duration 52:51   'It's life and death': how the growth of Addis Ababa has sparked ethnic tensions. 3-13-17 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/13/life-death-growth-addis-ababa-racial-tensions?CMP=share_btn_tw   ‘BECAUSE I AM OROMO’: SWEEPING REPRESSION IN THE OROMIA REGION OF ETHIOPIA https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr25/006/2014/en   U.S. 2016 Annual Human Rights report on Ethiopia: https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/#wrapper   https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/minnesotas-refugees/africa/ethiopians-amhara-oromo/   https://qz.com/africa/1749648/ethiopias-oromo-protests-over-jawar-mohammed-minorities-rights/ https://www.opride.com/2017/06/17/u-s-embassy-addis-ababa-didnt-change-afaan-oromo-alphabet/    Signup for Quartz newsletter https://qz.com/emails/africa-weekly-brief/    OPRIDE’s coverage of Oromo protests: http://www.opride.com/tag/oromo/   Mohammad Ademo. Freelance journalist, mea2164@columbia.edu, Past @AJAM opinion, Founder and editor@OPride.com ,  @ColumbiaJourn @Columbia    #Ethiopia,#Africa,#MohommedAdemo,#Oromia,#Repression   Send listener feedback to    dwatchnews@earthlink.net   Our production team https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rnPeRDB3JTrr80N_NlLmUM7nEzrRejw8-5qFYd45W5M/edit?usp=sharing 

Scores of people died in Ethiopia in late October after anti-government demonstrations descended into communal violence in the capital, Addis Ababa, and other parts of the Oromia region. For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Elliot Waldman discusses the situation in Ethiopia with Terrence Lyons. If you like what you hear on Trend Lines and what you’ve read on WPR, you can sign up for our free newsletter to get our uncompromising analysis delivered straight to your inbox. The newsletter offers a free preview article every day of the week, plus three more complimentary articles in our weekly roundup every Friday. Sign up here. Then subscribe. Relevant Articles on WPR: Could the Fallout From Ethiopia’s Failed Coup Derail Abiy’s Reform Agenda? Amid Revolutionary Change at Home, Ethiopia Is Remaking Its Middle East Ties In a Bold Experiment, Ethiopia’s Abiy Aims to Put Citizenship Over Ethnicity Can ‘Abiymania’ in Ethiopia Withstand the Threat of Ethnic Conflict? Trend Lines is produced and edited by Peter Dörrie, a freelance journalist and analyst focusing on security and resource politics in Africa. You can follow him on Twitter at @peterdoerrie. To send feedback or questions, email us at podcast@worldpoliticsreview.com

Homeland Report (28/10/19)* Russia-Africa summit in Sochi* UN deputy secretary general tours Eritrea* Locust invasion in Tigray - Homeland Report (28/10/19)* ምክትል ዋና ጸሓፊት ው.ሕ.ሃ. ኣሚና መሓመድ ኣብ ኤርትራ ዑደት ኣካይዳ* ኣቢይ ኣብ ሰላማዊ መዓላ ዝውዕል ስምምዕ ኑክሊያር ፈሪሙን ዕዳ ኣሰሪዙን፡ ዑስማን ሳልሕ ሩስያ ካብ ናይ ቀደም ጌጋ ተማሂራ ናይ ሓባር ዓለም ኣብ ምፍጣር ክትሕግዝ ሓቲቱ* ወራር ኣንበጣ ኣብ ትግራይ

ETHIOPIA: Panel discussion on Today's violent protest calls by activist Jawar Mohammed in Addis Ababa and some part of Oromia region!

Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds? Tsega Etefa’s new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), provides an answer, arguing that elites mobilize their co-ethnics for political gain. To do so, Etefa analyzed the historical roots of three different cases of ethnic conflict in Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.  Not only does his new book tell us why elites mobilize ethnically, Etefa also provides a series of recommendations to escape colonial legacies of identity politics.   He also recommends two books for listeners keen to learn more. McCauley’s The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa (Cambridge, 2017) and Fujii’s Killing Neighbors (Cornell, 2009). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds? Tsega Etefa’s new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), provides an answer, arguing that elites mobilize their co-ethnics for political gain. To do so, Etefa analyzed the historical roots of three different cases of ethnic conflict in Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.  Not only does his new book tell us why elites mobilize ethnically, Etefa also provides a series of recommendations to escape colonial legacies of identity politics.   He also recommends two books for listeners keen to learn more. McCauley’s The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa (Cambridge, 2017) and Fujii’s Killing Neighbors (Cornell, 2009). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds? Tsega Etefa’s new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), provides an answer, arguing that elites mobilize their co-ethnics for political gain. To do so, Etefa analyzed the historical roots of three different cases of ethnic conflict in Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.  Not only does his new book tell us why elites mobilize ethnically, Etefa also provides a series of recommendations to escape colonial legacies of identity politics.   He also recommends two books for listeners keen to learn more. McCauley’s The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa (Cambridge, 2017) and Fujii’s Killing Neighbors (Cornell, 2009). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds? Tsega Etefa’s new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), provides an answer, arguing that elites mobilize their co-ethnics for political gain. To do so, Etefa analyzed the historical roots of three different cases of ethnic conflict in Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.  Not only does his new book tell us why elites mobilize ethnically, Etefa also provides a series of recommendations to escape colonial legacies of identity politics.   He also recommends two books for listeners keen to learn more. McCauley’s The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa (Cambridge, 2017) and Fujii’s Killing Neighbors (Cornell, 2009). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds? Tsega Etefa’s new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), provides an answer, arguing that elites mobilize their co-ethnics for political gain. To do so, Etefa analyzed the historical roots of three different cases of ethnic conflict in Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.  Not only does his new book tell us why elites mobilize ethnically, Etefa also provides a series of recommendations to escape colonial legacies of identity politics.   He also recommends two books for listeners keen to learn more. McCauley’s The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa (Cambridge, 2017) and Fujii’s Killing Neighbors (Cornell, 2009). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interview with Ato Bekele Gerba. He talked about ethnic federalism, Addis Ababa 'Balderas' Council, and it's leader Eskinder Nega, calling on boycotting non-Oromiffa speaker in Oromia and more.

Eletawi panel discussion on recent Dr. Berhanu Nega's interview to Oromia Broadcasting Network (Ethiopia)

Journalist Ermias Legesse emotional takes on the latest killing in the West Welega, Oromia region. He said the incompetence of OPDO leadership endangering the people Oromia and the country as a whole. Ethiopia

At the age of 17 years-old Dureti Tadesse was imprisoned and tortured for trying to flee her country. After escaping and coming to America she decided to start a nonprofit to reach women who like her, were discriminated against in Oromia, Ethiopia. These women are “systematically denied rights and resources, making it impossible to achieve economic security” (From her website).   In this episode, we talk about how Dureti used her experience as a driving force to make an impact in the lives of other women. We also talk about the process for starting a non-profit and building a passionate team. Dureti encourages us that we do NOT have to have all the resources, knowledge, or expertise to make a difference. We simply need a burning passion and determination to make an impact.   Topics Discussed: Her imprisonment and torture in Ethiopia How to motivate others to get behind your vision. Selecting board members and leadership. How to make a difference even when you feel overwhelmed.   Connect with Dureti: Website Facebook --  

This week I have the complete honor of interviewing the awe-inspiring Dureti Mimi Tadesse, most commonly known as Mimi. Mimi is originally from the area of Oromia in Ethiopia, a country with about 40 million living in poverty and the average individual living on 25 cents a day. Mimi’s people, the Oromos, have always been greatly discriminated against and Mimi has been no stranger to this dehumanization.   Read the complete show notes on my website: www.girls4greatness.com/episode017  

The first episode of this series starts with an overview of the Oromo protests.

Epidemiologia de la tuberculosis en zona rural de África. Asignatura: Enfermedades Emergentes e Importadas, y Medicina del Viajero. Máster Universitario en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Salud Internacional. Profesor: José Manuel Ramos Rincón. Dpto. de Medicina Clínica. Área de Inmunología. Proyecto PLE 2013. Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Epidemiología de la tuberculosis en Etiopía y en concreto en el hospital rural de Gambo en la provincia de West Arsi en la región de la Oromia.