Blogs about: Horn Of Africa

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Uganda: UPDF Taking a Wrong Path On Somalia

5-Pillar Scribe wrote 5 days ago: On the Somali streets this was viewed as a “low-blow”, these two Christian presidents gl … more →

Tags: Africa, Islam, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mogadishu, Uganda, counter-terrorism, kampala

Brass Hunt

OUT wrote 6 days ago: U.S. Marines from the 9th Provisional Security Company search for spent brass after a morning of fi … more →

Tags: Cleanup

Go shorty, its your Birthday!

oromantic wrote 6 days ago: Toronto, Canada - Ethiopia’s Mulu Seboka gave herself an expensive birthday present at the 2008 S … more →

Tags: Oromo, Ethiopia, Oromia, Africa, Sports, Social, america, Human Rights, Freedom

these somali pirates must be stopped now1 comment

kenopp wrote 1 week ago: As I whined about the resignation of Mbeki and the ineluctable ascendance of one Jacob Zuma to the m … more →

Tags: Africa, Crises, East Africa, Ethiopia, Human Rights, Kenya, News Analysis, Politics, Somalia

these somali pirates must be stopped now1 comment

kenopp wrote 1 week ago: As I whined about the resignation of Mbeki and the ineluctable ascendance of one Jacob Zuma to the m … more →

Tags: Africa, Crises, East Africa, Ethiopia, Human Rights, Kenya, News Analysis, Politics, Somalia

Piracy menace: Somali pirates seize ship with Russian tanks7 comments

An alien Earthling wrote 1 week ago: If you thought pirates can be found only in movies and comic books, think again. Somalian pirates ar … more →

Tags: Arabian Peninsula, Asia, buccaneering bullies, Crime, Ethiopia, Gulf of Aden, High Seas, Hostages, indian ocean

On t'Brink Again: Hungry Horn1 comment

tpeace wrote 1 week ago: the looping setting on the horn of africa. BAM! 2008 ~9.6 million hungry people (hi food prices), 3. … more →

Tags: Peace & Conflict, Africa, Ethiopia, History, Somalia

No feast, but famine. How has it all gone so terribly wrong?

katelewis wrote 2 weeks ago: Let’s face the ugly truth - famines haven’t been “hot” since the BBC’ … more →

Tags: Journalism, Uganda, Travel, Africa, Food & Drink, Media & Journalism, Politics & News, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Press conference by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes on food crisis in Horn of Africa

shahrulpeshawar wrote 2 weeks ago: The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordin … more →

Tags: Bencana Alam, UN, emergency relief, Humanitarian affairs, Crisis

OROMIA unplugged2 comments

oromantic wrote 2 weeks ago:   A report we received from Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) confirmed that the Ethiopian Woyane/TPLF gover … more →

Tags: Academics, Africa, america, Art, Books, Business, Ethiopia, Funnies, Human Rights

Deliberately Starving ppl to death1 comment

oromantic wrote 2 weeks ago:       For more on this story visit Channel4. … more →

Tags: Africa, Ethiopia, Human Rights, Politics, Social, aid, camel, Crime, death

Commonality b/n Ethiopia & Zimbabwe

oromantic wrote 2 weeks ago: The basic structure of Ethiopia’s Charities and Societies Proclamation draft law appears to be a … more →

Tags: Oromo, Politics, Human Rights, Ethiopia, Oromia, Africa, Academics, Social, america

Oromo @ Melbourne Art Center

oromantic wrote 3 weeks ago: … more →

Tags: Oromo, Music, Ethiopia, Oromia, Art, Africa, Social, Human Rights, Freedom

Bati - authentic Oromo beat2 comments

oromantic wrote 3 weeks ago: I would like to extend my best wishes for the “Ethiopian New Year” to all friends and fo … more →

Tags: Oromo, Music, Ethiopia, Oromia, Art, Africa, Social, Human Rights, Freedom

Oromia coffee growers1 comment

oromantic wrote 3 weeks ago: A builder with compassion as wide as his building skills is going to put the two to good use in Eth … more →

Tags: Oromo, Human Rights, Ethiopia, Oromia, Africa, Academics, Business, Social, Freedom

Bareedduu Entertainment presents

oromantic wrote 4 weeks ago: … more →

Tags: Oromo, Music, Ethiopia, Oromia, Art, Africa, Social, america, Human Rights

Somalia pirates demand release of captured conspiritors and use maramu as Pirate Ship!

emilyboats wrote 1 month ago: Yacht Captured by Pirates in Somalia A warning that the Super Maramu “Carre D’as IV … more →

Tags: boat, boating, Boats, Sailboats, Sailing, yacht, YACHTS, amel, Carre D'as IV

POLITICS-SOMALIA: U.S. Policy Likely to Bring Blowback

5-Pillar Scribe wrote 1 month ago: “U.S. counterterrorism policies have not only compromised other international agendas in Somal … more →

Tags: Politics, Terrorism, Somalia, Ethiopian, Transitional Federal Government, East African

A brand new Oromo webzine

oromantic wrote 1 month ago:   Maya Tessema, one of the leading voices behind Ogina, tells us what Ogina means, how it came abo … more →

Tags: Oromo, Music, Poetry, Human Rights, Ethiopia, Oromia, Art, Spiritual, Funnies