- Ethiopia's PM says ready for talks with OLF
Ethiopia's PM says ready for talks with OLF
ST - Nov 24, 2008 - A mediation team said that the government of Ethiopia has agreed to hold talks with the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) without any pre-conditions.
"Ethiopian PM, Meles Zenawi called us and told us in person that his country is ready to hold talks with OLF," Amb. Birhanu Dinka, one of the elders and also former UN envoy to the Great Lakes region said. Read More.
Related:
- Statement of the OLF Provisional Committee On TPLF's Peace Gimmick (OromooLiberationFront.org)
- To Set the Record Straight Statement of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) Regarding VOA Interview on Negotiations with the TPLF Regime
(OromoLiberationFront.org)
HRLHA - Nov 12, 2008 - According to documents obtained by the HRLHA from its informants in Addis Ababa, a wave of mass arrest and imprisonment that has targeted prominent Oromo intellectuals and businessmen is going on in different parts of the regional state of Oromia, including the Capital Addis Ababa. The arbitrary arrest and detention, which is being carried out by an armed force brought together from regional and federal police that is particularly set up and deployed for this purpose, started following the usual allegation that the local residents harbour and/or support the opposition armed group – Oromo Liberation Front. This most recent mass arrest and imprisonment includes Mrs. Lelise Wodajo, a mother and guardian of three dependant children and wife of former ETV journalist Dhabasa Waqjira, who fled the country to escape further persecutions after three years in prison without trial. The fate of the three children of Mrs Wodajo and Mr. Waqjira, who are said to be very young, is not known. HRLHA is highly concerned about their current situation as well as their future. 
Gubirmans - Nov 12, 2008 - As an Oromo refugee, I have enjoyed American hospitality and a life free from fear and threat for many years. My dream has always been the independence of my country Oromiyaa, and peace and stability for its neighbors. November 4, 2008 has strengthened this hope of mine. It is a landmark in modern world history. It is a day that stunned people of all races, creeds and walks of life. It was enough to witness how much emotion were aroused when tears were involuntarily flowing from the eyes of civil right veteran leaders like Jessie Jackson. Their struggle has reached beyond the right to equal treatment and the right to vote for which they paid heavy sacrifices. This was only yesterday. Now it became possible to be elected to the highest office of the land - breaking all taboos. They could not control their tears for it was phenomenal. "Yes, We Can" was the slogan of the elected from his campaign to victory speech. It echoed their hopes as expressed in the song "We shall overcome". 
OLF News - Nov 8, 2008 - Our reporters in Western Oromia, Illu-Abba Boora zone, reported that over 19,000 people are on the verge of death as a result of starvation . In Boorachaa district of this zone several children, women, and elderly people are widely affected and dying every day, our reporters added.
owner of the famous Hawi Hotel and one of the Oromo nationalists imprisoned recently in Addis Ababa (Finfinne) - was a member of the "Big Firm Owners Coordinating Sub-Committee" for the fundraising organization planning to build the Wollega Youth Center and Stadium Complex in western Oromia. The Stadium is designed to have world-class amenities, will cost 190-million Birr ($1 ~ 10 Birr) and is expected to be completed in 2011. According to the information posted on the organization's website, a Telethon event has been scheduled for November 9th, 2008 in Finfinne to raise funds for this project. No word yet if this event would go on as scheduled on the heel of the illegal detention of one of the organization's prominent members. 