Kenya: Muslims for Human Rights (Muhuri) – Statement on the Ongoing Floods in Kenya (03.05.2024)

South Sudan: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) – Humanitarian partners in South Sudan call on the Government to urgently remove new charges impacting the delivery of humanitarian assistance (28.04.2024)

Opinion: Naye Mzee…. You have worked with them throughout your whole career…

“People like [Speaker] Anita Among are not the problem. The real problem we have is the traitors working for foreigners. They are not mistake makers but outright traitors working for wrong foreigners like homosexuals and imperialists. How can you talk so much on social media about Anita Among instead of those traitors? I’m getting intelligence and we’re going to expose those traitors” – President Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni (23.03.2024).

We are just supposed to be forgetful. We are just supposed to look away from the obvious and act indifferent. That’s what the President wants and he plays a blame game. It isn’t foreigners fault that the Parliament is corrupted, the foreigners aren’t partaking in the illicit funds and misuse of office in Parliament. That’s on the merit on the ones holding office in the Parliament right now.

Yes, the President uses sloganeering and familiar tropes. He uses vilification and creating invisible enemies that works with an invisible hand to influence everyone. President Museveni thinks we have forgotten and that we are all delusional.

We all know that Museveni was a donor darling and a beloved character in the West. We know that the state, his government and all institution got a giant boost by foreign direct government aid. We have seen how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank has directly changed output and guided the state after the bush-war. It is not like the government haven’t had a large part of the funding from outside sources, which means foreign influence directly in the pockets of the President. So, he should speak less of foreign traitors and look into his own actions first.

President Museveni has fought the “war on terror” on behalf of the West. Museveni have accepted using his armies in the “dirty” wars that the Western armies doesn’t want to touch. His armies have been deployed, trained and gotten ammunition as a pay for doing these services. We are supposed to forget that part too. That’s how has been beloved by Clinton and W. Bush. That’s just something we are supposed to forget aren’t we.

That’s why homosexuals and foreign interference is bad in 2024. When the old man has spent fortunes of donations and aide over the years. The President has wasted foreign funds over decades. While the funds from outside has been diminishing of late, that’s because his not following the interests of the donors. He is going in his own tune and that’s why he has to take out loans to cover the deficit in his budgets. Therefore, his mad at the donors who doesn’t follow his every whim. That’s what his “yes-men” does and Presidential Advisors does.

So to defend the Speaker by speaking ill like this… it isn’t working. Especially when you have knowledge of how someone has operated over the years. The Bretton Woods and the UN Organizations has come in with massive relief. They have shielded and taken a load of the President head. He has gotten it easier because they captured the shortfall when he needed it. They delivered where his state couldn’t and that’s why its rich calling them traitors now. When he traded shots, bulletins and speeches with them in the past. He would have enjoyed the glory in 2024 if he could. The President would have danced in Washington D.C. if someone allowed him. However, that’s not the case…. And we know it.

Shiish. Sigh. This is tiring and repetitive. Peace.

Ethiopia: Alliance of Tigray Associations in Diaspora (ATAD) – Tegaru Diaspora Call to Action (16.03.2024)

Ethiopia: Salsay Weyane Tigray – Tigray Faces Devastating Famine: Immediate International Action Needed (12.02.2024)

Ethiopia: The PM will act like your death didn’t happen…

“based on the available information, there have been no reported deaths attributed to starvation, so far” – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali (06.02.2024)

Just imagine a Head of State, the Commander-in-Chief, and the Executive Branch of Government acts like your plight, suffering and such doesn’t exist. That’s what is happening in Ethiopia.

The Prime Minister was speaking in Parliament this week and acting like famine, starvation or droughts was hurting to the extent it does. The deaths and weaponized humanitarian aide are now hurting the citizens across the Republic.

Abiy is showing that a ruthless warlord. The ones believing that his a caring or concerned leader is false. He rather sees civilians die and do so because their leaders didn’t obey or bow their knees to the PM. That’s why this is happening. He takes people to war and try to kill the ones in his way. That’s who Abiy is and he shows it.

We know that he see dead people as fertilizer for trees. That the decomposing bodies helps to grow trees. This is paraphrasing him, but he has said so in the past. So, what he said this week continues his blatant disregard of people. Where he doesn’t acknowledge their demise…

It is just disappointing to say the least. Shows how he isn’t worried about them. If it is the people suffering in Tigray, Afar, Amhara, Oromia or Ogaden for the matter. We have seen people die and it’s all done either by bureaucracy or a will to hurt the community at large. This is what Abiy has done in the name of law enforcement and constitutional order.

Alas, he isn’t respecting the people or their needs. No, it is only about his circle of power and his need to control everything. He needs his men to be “yes-men” and bend to his every whim. If they don’t or doesn’t accept this memo. He will do what he can to destroy you and everyone around you. That’s why he starts wars and never ends them.

It is just tragic that this Medemer Terror continues. That Abiy still gets awards and accolades, while people are in dire straits. People are in danger and living in horrendous situations. While the PM is busy building a palace and showing pictures of wheat fields. Meanwhile lots of people are malnourished and lack food security. That’s the grim reality and the deaths will continue. The deaths will not only happen on the battle-fields or in the trenches, but in the villages and homes. As people cannot eat and they cannot get their needs met. However, Abiy will not acknowledge or credit that. Instead he will blame someone else or say it’s their fault that they died.

It is just tragic. There is no remorse and no justification. Only more death. No more hope or a possibility to get out of this juxtaposition. No, because the PM and his allies doesn’t care. They are not profiting of it and they don’t have a scheme to overcome it. As long as it is a cost and is humiliating for the PM. He will not do it and he don’t care what happens to others. The PM needs the incentive and the glory for his actions. If the PM doesn’t get that… then he won’t do it or even think it is necessary. Peace.

Ethiopia: Salsay Weyane Tigray – Weekly press release from Salsay Weyane Tigray (29.01.2024)

Ethiopia: Abiy deserves a medal for creating famine and hunger… [and not the opposite]

“In a ceremony hosted by UNFAO in Rome, PM Abiy Ahmed Ali has been awarded the prestigious FAO Agricola Medal for his vision, leadership and commitment to food security and nutrition as well as the pursuit of innovative solutions in wheat self-sufficiency” (Office of the Prime Minister – Ethiopia, 28.01.2024).

The news over the weekend that the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali was awarded an award by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a specialized agency under the United Nations for his commitments to food security and nutrition is appalling. It is like the UN Agency, FAO never have read or followed other UN Agencies and their struggles to even feed the hungry people of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE).

Abiy isn’t a guy who has prospered by feeding people. No, he and his bureaucracy has blocked humanitarian assistance, ensured man-made famine and created hostile regions where the agricultural sector has been destroyed. That’s what Abiy has fought for and built over the years. Yes, he has propaganda shots with some wheat fields and wants to speak of self-sufficient nation, but he needs the aide and the public needs it too to survive at this point.

OCHA has in the recent SITUATION Report dated from the 10^th of January 2024 saying this: “The Ethiopian government and humanitarian partners are stepping up life-saving efforts in the most affected areas across the country despite severe resource constraints and operational challenges, including active hostilities in some areas. Out of 20.1 million people(7) targeted for food and cash assistance at the start of 2023, over 18 million people received food assistance at least once between January and October 2023; about 7.3 million most prioritized people were also reached between May and November, more specifically, 3.7 million people with food and cash support from the Government and 3.6 million people in Shock Response Safety Net Program supported by the World Bank. Since mid-December, with the resumption of the USAID-funded food assistance, partners have provided food aid and cash support to approximately six million people in the Amhara, Tigray, Somali, and Afar regions. Some US$8 million was allocated in November under the Ethiopian Humanitarian Fund (EHF), for response in Amhara Region. Nevertheless, deepening food, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), protection, health, agriculture, and livelihoods needs dwarf these efforts as pockets of similar needs can be found in Oromia, Southern and Southwest regions. Partners continue to call on donors to provide resources to enable an urgent large-scale multisector response to reach close to 4 million people in the first half of 2024” (OCHA, 10.01.2024).

When you have this sort of OCHA Situation Report dated the 10^{th of} January and on the 28^{th of} January the other UN Agency FAO awarded him an award on their behalf. That I just insincere or weird.

Is the FAO as an agency eaten up by the propaganda of the FDRE entities? Because do they believe what the government news organizations is spewing? Since there other news and worrying signs across the republic.

When millions of civilians are struggling with malnutrition and hunger… it isn’t fitting to give that leader accolades to ensure food security. The numbers aren’t getting better, and more regions are getting hit. This being Ogaden (Somali region), Oromia, Amhara, and Tigray to mention a few. That is huge part of the Republic and doesn’t FAO see this?

Who in their right mind awards someone who is known for weaponizing humanitarian aide during conflict? It is like FAO haven’t followed or cared about the policies that the Prosperity Party really has. The FAO is either naïve or bought to believe the narratives that is told by ruling regime of Ethiopia.

Abiy will thrive on this one and bash in glory. He is the warlord that was rewarded a peace prize. Now his the one that caused hunger, starvation and famine, but rewarded with a award saying he worked for food security. The ones dying and struggling must wonder what is wrong in this world. As the diabolical institutions are awarding the devil the title of a saint. They are saying the devious leader is the aspiring one and the one to celebrate.

The one that is behind and organizer of the trouble of the republic. That guy is getting accolades and being cherished abroad. While people are living in dire straits with no sorts of mechanisms saving them. The nation has no interests in safeguarding them or even trying to conceal their acts. Instead, they blame others or their enemies. Peace.

Ethiopia: Salsay Weyane Tigray – Weekly press release from Salsay Weyane Tigray (22.01.2024)

Ethiopia: Tigray – TIP sounds the alarm on the rising hunger…

“We have also lost more than a million lives due to the open genocidal war declared against us, let alone the destruction of property in our homes and villages. This is not a number but our brother, sister, father, mother, children … but our person, dignity and identity in general. Following this, we as a people and as a country are in immense heartache and physical misery. Moreover, the drought and famine we are facing is killing the lives of infants, pregnant women, mothers and the elderly. And there can never be anything more heartbreaking than seeing our country Tigray fall into question marks of existence or non-existence due to the open genocidal war declared against us, cruel drought and famine” (Tigray Independence Party, 13.01.2024).

The conditions of the Tigray Region haven’t become any better since the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoH) in Pretoria, South Africa. The Tigray Interim Regional Administration haven’t the mandate or the power to make a difference. The Interim Administration has called out the Federal Government and the International Community to help them out. However, that has all fallen on deaf ears.

Now the Opposition Party, Tigray Independence Party (TIP) has released their Press Release called “Hunger knows no condition!!” and what it says is tragic. The reports from the Tigray region should worry anyone and that after the brutal war that was fought by the Tripartite Alliance against the Tigrayan people. Therefore, what TIP is saying is a sign of a worrying trend and a cycle of deaths that is never ceasing. Now the people aren’t dying out of conflict, but out of starvation/hunger. That’s a result of the warfare and of the lack of re-building of the regional state.

TIP says: “The “Tigray Emergency Response (TER)” task force has been established as a crucial national task force. We cannot overcome the terrible famine that has been looming over us since early November. We have started and will probably start in the future when we work responsibly, reliably and determinedly based on the rights of the task forces for the safety of our people.
Of course, we can avoid this immense danger not only by using our own capabilities, but even by mobilizing the capabilities of the international community” (TIP, 13.01.2024).

This famine has been known and been warned about. Since the war there been a humanitarian catastrophe in the Tigray region. As humanitarian assistance has been blocked and the agricultural sector been hurt by war. That has been done with targeted and bureaucratic hurdles to ensure the demise of more people in Tigray. Now that the cessation of hostilities haven’t stopped this and neither has there been reports of steady stream of humanitarian assistance to the region either. Therefore, the continued plight has persisted.

TIP further says: “The leadership and members of our cluster and district organizations should monitor the activities of this task force and whether the aid is reaching the beneficiaries properly; If you ’ve noticed any weaknesses or signs of corruption, please inform the TIP headquarters. Hunger knows no conditions!” (TIP, 13.01.2024).

You know things are bad when the opposition doesn’t trust the TIRA or the TPLF. They are worried that they will eat the aid and not give it to the starving. That is telling in the middle of this crisis and wants a word if people knows. It is really sad things are boiling down to this. The Tigray region needs help and the crisis cannot be forgotten. Yet another famine that continues the trend of destruction and desperation in Tigray.

TIP is only speaking out for the ones in need. They want the TIRA/TPLF to do what they need to do and asks others to help them so they can. This is the sad reality and so many people needs help and they cannot wait for tomorrow. Peace.