Without any prejudice, I say ALL the leaders are just making it worse in the Horn of Africa. This fact proves that the Nationals in the Horn of Africa have not benefited yet from their national independence! The independence proves to be false!
Who cares of the nationals, since all the struggle was/is for power and wealth?!
I am %1000000 sure that no one cares. Here is the tragedy. However, it becomes tragicomedy when those leading the political scenes smile on the televisions' camera. They should feel shame of the misery they make!
Is there any justice in this world?
Two Periods of War in the Horn of Africa mean that there are two miserable generations! Those generations do not have any interests in the wars.
You will only know how the people are very nice by only living between them, even for two weeks, let alone fifty four years!
Bear it with me to read the proofs in the news at the middle or the end of this page.
This page and some other pages will continue to cover the Horn of Africa. Some of you may know more information about the Horn of Africa. They may know also, why it is becoming miserable nowadays.
Let us look to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the following message because they made the last war disaster in the Horn of Africa. Link to this message from the Ethio-Eritrean War! and the Afro Journal Blog
When I say miserable Horn of Africa, I do mean it, because the news speaks about this fact every week.
The misery continues to unfold the negatives the Horn of Africa lives everyday through these political events we read in different media sources.
We have proofs in those events, so we are not claiming false when we say the political situation in the Horn of Africa is not so much that improved.
Just let us take this week and the last week headlines to see how the deterioration continues to enforce its impact on those innocent folks in the Horn of Africa:
ETHIOPIA: Gov't urged to end crackdown on the opposition: ADDIS ABABA, 7 November (IRIN) - The United States and European Union urged the Ethiopian government on Sunday to end its crackdown on opposition leaders, many of whom were seized last week during bloody clashes between demonstrators and police.
ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UN envoy to meet peacekeepers and officials: ADDIS ABABA, 7 November (IRIN) - The United Nations Security Council envoy, Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, arrived in Addis Ababa on Sunday as tensions between Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea over an unresolved border dispute continued to be reported.
SOMALIA: Nine killed as prime minister's convoy ambushed: NAIROBI, 7 November (IRIN) - At least nine people were killed and several others injured on Sunday when a convoy of cars carrying interim Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi was ambushed in a Mogadishu suburb, sources in the Somali capital said on Monday.
UGANDA-SUDAN: Another international NGO worker killed by LRA rebels: KAMPALA, 7 November (IRIN) - Barely a week after rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed two employees of a Swiss demining charity in southern Sudan, the LRA killed another international NGO worker near the Ugandan border on Saturday, an army spokesman said.
ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: Annan urges restraint as troop movement reported on disputed border: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed concern on Wednesday about reported movements of military personnel on both the Ethiopian and Eritrean sides of the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) along their common border. In a statement issued by his spokesman, Annan said there had also been reports of "irregular activities inside the zone," and troop movements involving small and large military and paramilitary formations, armour as well as aerial defence assets.
ETHIOPIA: Death toll at 33 on third day of violence in capital: Two more people were killed and eight others injured in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Thursday, bringing the death toll in three days of violence to 33, with more than 150 injured, doctors said. Although most of the city was tentatively calm, renewed fighting broke out sporadically in areas close to several foreign embassies. Police and heavily armed troops maintained a heavy presence, and armoured personnel carriers patrolled the streets.
ETHIOPIA: Police attacked in troubled western region: Four police officers were shot dead and six others wounded after rebels attacked their station in Ethiopia's troubled western region, police said on Monday. The men, including the state police commissioner, were killed during a shoot-out on Sunday in Gambella town, some 700 km west of the capital, Addis Ababa. "Members of the Defence forces and the Federal Police are in hot pursuit of the culprits," Senday Gach, a police spokesman, said in a statement.
ERITREA: Gov't says UN has failed to maintain peace in Horn of Africa: The Eritrean government has accused the UN Security Council of failing to maintain peace in the Horn of Africa, where a stalemate over border demarcation and the recent grounding of UN helicopters has increased tension between Eritrea and Ethiopia. "The disturbing fact is the Security Council has to date failed to carry out its obligations to maintain regional peace and security under the United Nations Charter and the two Algiers Agreements," President Isaias Afwerki said in a letter on Friday to the president of the Security Council.
SOMALIA: Somaliland asks for replacement of EU liaison officer: The European Union (EU) expressed concern on Thursday over a decision by authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland to expel one of the organisation's officials from the territory. Richard Hands, the European Commission's operations manager for Somalia, said authorities in Hargeysa, Somaliland's capital, had asked for the replacement of one of the commission's officers.
NAIROBI, 2 November (IRIN) - The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) has suspended its operations in areas of southern Sudan after suspected rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed two de-miners in an attack on Monday.
SUDAN: Two de-miners killed in ambush on Juba-Nimule road: NAIROBI, 1 November (IRIN) - Suspected Ugandan rebels killed two de-miners from the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) in southern Sudan on Monday, in an ambush believed to have been staged by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the UN Mission in Sudan said.
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Some more useful links we recommend for good readings and more knowledge:
The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa : The Diplomacy of Intervention and Disengagement (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) (Hardcover)
by Robert Patman
The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa is the first major attempt to address the paradoxes of Soviet behavior in the area.
Dr. Patman provides a careful historical background to the recent conflicts and shows how the Soviet Union and its East European partners dramatically switched from being close allies of Somalia to allies of Ethiopia--intervening in the Ethiopian-Somali war of 1977-8 to ensure the military defeat of their former ally.
However, he does not confine himself simply to retrospective analysis. He also assesses the Soviet experience in the region in the decade since 1979, and considers in particular the impact of Gorbachev's new thinking and the new diplomacy.
Horn of Africa:
Ethnicity & Conflict In The Horn (Eastern African Studies) (Hardcover)
by Katsuyoshi Fukui, John Markakis (Contributor)
Conflicts in the Horn of Africa have all too often dominated press coverage of Africa. This book exposes the subtle and ambiguous role ethnicity can play in social conflict- a role that is nowhere as simple and direct as commonly assumed.
Social conflict is routinely attributed to ethnic differentiation because dividing lines between rival groups often follow ethnic contours; and cultural symbolism has proved a potent ideological weapon. The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of the bond linking rthnicity to conflict in a variety of circumstances.
The diverse groups are involved in confrontations at different levels and of varying intensity, ranging from elemental struggles for physical survival of groups at the margin of society, to contests for state power and control of resources at the centre.
The ten studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya are based on primary research by anthropologists and historians who have long experience of the region. The insights gained from this comparative work help to refine common assumption about conflict among ethnic groups.
Katsuyoshi Fukui is a Professor & Head of the Department of Anthropology, Kyoto Unversity, Japan. John Markakis is Professor of African Studies in the Department of History & Archaeology, University of Crete.
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