Posts Tagged ‘ogaden’

U.S. Senators Russell D.Feingold, Johnny Isakson, Patrick J. Leahy, and Richard J. Durbin wrote the following letter to Ethiopia's dictator Meles Zenawi : Dear Mr. Prime Minister, We write to express our concern about several recent developments in your country, which we fear could make the important partnership between the United States and Ethiopia more difficult. We are deeply troubled that these events ... Full story

Ethiopia's Ogaden is Top 10 humanitarian Crisis of 2008: MSF The violence and harsh climatic conditions in southeastern Ethiopia's Somali region have created one of the world's top ten humanitarian crisis, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in its annual report. MSF said the local people in the Somali region, also known as Ogaden, are caught between rebel groups and government forces. The Ethiopian government ... Full story

Surrounded by unstable regimes and beset by national conflicts, the current Ethiopian government has long been preoccupied with containing any militant threat. In June, even as the country was gripped by its worst famine in 25 years, the government announced plans to increase its military budget by $50 million -- to $400 million -- just one week after appealing to the international community for assistance. As ... Full story