Ethiopian National Election Board (NEB) announced results of the June 21, 2021 elections

Ethiopia’s Unilateral Ceasefire and the West’s (US & EU) Encouragement of TPLF’s Warmongering

The Ethiopian National Election Board (NEB) announced results of the June 21, 2021 elections and Prosperity Party has won 410 out of the 436 contested seats in the House of Peoples Representatives.

Security issues deterred voting in some woredas (constituencies) and they are scheduled for voting in a few weeks. A total of 547 seats constitute the federal parliament.

The elections were peaceful and some irregularities in some regions were reported by the NEB which included intimidation of observers and the forgery of documents.

The honorable NEB board chair Birtukan Mideksa stated that lots of lessons were learned from the process and reassured the nation that transfer of power will be through elections from here on. 

The NEB board chair took the time to detail the efforts of the young election workers determination to make the election a success. She thanked the leading staff of the election process for taking up the challenges of laying the foundation of a reformed strong institution. 

At the same time, the Washington Post decried PM Abiy’s governance with negative propaganda… with a headline charging on how Ethiopia claims to have laid down its arms as it continues to weaponize starvation in Tigray…with choice words such as on set of famine making a difference between life and death, a government blockade, absence of commercial flights, and blockage land routes in and out of Tigray. 

TPLF continues to beat war drums in the region (killil) not minding the plight of some Tigreans for peace.

Who are our friends and who are not?

Nothing makes the answer to this abstract question clearer as when you find yourself needing to fend off extinction by hunger. 

Building the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) to harness energy and end recurring famines and hand outs that follow ; seeing our emaciated people who are dying uttering Hail Mary, Lord Almighty or Allah the merciful as their lives are/were slowly being snuffed out…this we hope will end with harnessing our water resource and energy. 

Some make life for themselves out of our poverty and under development and want us to stay this way …these are not our friends and certainly are our enemies. 

Unlike our enemies and with no malice to none, we want to retain water and create energy to sustain our people’s life/existence and end hunger of our nation. 

As friends to our neighbors, we want to share our nations abundant gift of water. It is the right thing to do and is in our best interest. 

If our neighbors want to take all the water and leave us in darkness and hunger, it won’t do. It will be death again for our people. If we must die, let’s remember Claude McKay poem.

If We Must Die

by CLAUDE MCKAY

If we must die, let it not be like hogs

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursèd lot.

If we must die, O let us nobly die,

So that our precious blood may not be shed

In vain; then even the monsters we defy

Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!

O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!

Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,

And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!

What though before us lies the open grave?

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,

Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Scramble For Africa in The Twenty First Century

History shows there was tremendous competition among European nations to acquire colonies in the African continent in the 18th and 19 centuries . They came to Africa with the bible in hand to preach the word of God and about the kingdom of heaven and civilize these brute Africans.

Europeans among themselves knew they were competing for sphere of influence and natural resources. The savage Africans needed civilizing and Europeans justified their crusade (i.e devastating wars) under the slogan “Glory of God and Gold” as they killed, destroyed, and enslaved millions of Africans. They divided the African people so they fight against each other and many examples can be sighted ..(Nigeria being one).

Despite the devastating wars, there was Ethiopia, a country in Africa, that stood against the colonial campaigns. Italy invaded Ethiopia and was dealt a crushing defeat on March 1, 1896. 

The news of an African country defeating an European country shocked the white Europeans. They could never believe a black man, King Menelik of Ethiopia, could out maneuver the Italians with their modern weapons. 

Again on October 3, 1935 Italy invaded Ethiopia. This time, the black world specially African Americans in the United States supported Ethiopia and some volunteers came to Ethiopia to join the fight on the side of Ethiopia. Ethiopia stood as symbol of freedom and struggle for blacks everywhere. 

Today Ethiopia is being maligned by the likes of Linda Thomas in the United Nations Security Council who is president Biden’s representative. President Biden and his administration are spewing despicable campaign towards the people of Ethiopia. He has surrounded himself with a coterie of TPLF advocates like Susan Rice, Samantha Powers and Linda Thomas. 

The Ethiopian Government was forced to take the law enforcement operation on November 4, 2021 when the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) attacked the Ethiopian Northern Defense Forces (ENDF). Immediately, the Biden administration started echoing the TPLF’s propaganda with no counter balancing input or sources. 

The previous president was clear how he felt about Africa and African Americans. President Biden’s approach to Africa raises some questions. Is his approach really different from Trump?

He has taken the TPLF’s lies and propaganda lock, stock and barrel. So has Linda Thomas in the United Nations Security Council spewing “vast displacement”, “countless human right abuses”, “famine and starvation”, “killing of civilians”, “systematic rape of women and girls” etc.. 

These charges that Linda Thomas is referring to are a direct reproduction of the TPLF propaganda campaign of lies as expressed by a diaspora TPLF hack Alula Solomon and the internal Tigrai Media House that crank out daily lies. 

The question that needs to be asked is . Why is the United States echoing and misinforming the world when it fully knows the TPLF is the initiator of the crises by attacking the ENDF? US is also rallying allied Western European countries on the lying campaign through their media. 

Europeans have done this in 18th and 19th centuries for scramble of Africa, but today’s campaign is being waged by the United States.

The Biden administration has put blacks in the forefront to hide its anti-African policies. In the year of Black Lives Matter, with black brothers and sisters in the US Senate, the US Congress and the administration, it seems they are pushing Biden’s policies to weaken Ethiopia, without question.

Ethiopia is a strong and a moral African country with rich, dignified anti-colonial history and home of the African Union, a symbol of African unity on the African continent. 

We have seen actions mirroring questionable motives within the US before. For example, often times prominent black Americans like Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson are met with slanderous assumptions. They were accused and charged with rape and child abuse. To this day no one “really” knows the truth about Michel Jackson and Bill Cosby. We see our African American brothers and sisters murdered by police and victimized by systemic racism that is shockingly rampant with no end in sight.

The US is now accusing the ENDF as rapist of woman, girls and children. To the West, the ENDF is a savage and indiscriminate killer, rampaging through Tigrai, destroying everything that stands in its way. You get the picture. 

African blacks, particularly Ethiopians are still African savages. The US is selling and trying to achieve this through fake media institutions like CNN, New York Times ,The Guardian, Washington Post, BBC …..who propagate and recycle the same horryfing news month after month. 

US hopes to achieve its objective of weakening Ethiopia, Ethiopia’s moral standing, and her prestige in Africa and the world using black faces (sometimes outright uncle Toms and aunt Jemimas). The black world and Africa should not allow this to happen.

Secretary Blinken is misinformed and his imperial power projection comes through very clearly and shows how much distaste he has for Ethiopia. He is telling Ethiopia do this or else. Somehow somebody forgot to tell Secretary Blinken Ethiopia is a sovereign country not a US territory. 

We call on all people around the world and black leaders and all US friends of Ethiopia and countries of Africa to rally together and stop this madness of president Biden under the guise of fighting China in Africa.

The scramble for Africa is happening today by weaponizing a collective Western media with horrifying words like rape of woman, girls and children, human right abuses etc… 

In 17th and 18th centuries it was “God and Gold” . Today it is protection of human rights, feed the hungry..etc.

The agenda of yesteryears and today’s are essentially the same.

The “Crises” in Tigray

July 4, 2021

The “Crises” in Tigray – Hager Wodad Los Angeles

Rebels capturing  Tigray after the ENDF and Eritrean forces evacuated the region is what’s been reported. It is not certain that the TPLF entering Mekele creates a lull in the fighting in the coming months. 

Parading prisoners of war through Mekele only maybe  the TPLF’s need to lift local morale and an attempt to overcome the horrific humiliation and demise of most of the TPLF leaders in the first three weeks in November 2020. God knows Mekele’s psyche, the TPLF’s army and the noisy Tigrean diaspora supporters need these displays.

The immediate horror projected by foreign powers and PM Abiy’s internal critics not withstanding, we can’t predict with certainty the eventual outcome nor  learn even with the best prediction where the current situation will lead  …but we hope we will have a chance to see developments after the rainy season and decide whether it’s more of a lull or a “turning point in the war”. 

The decision the Ethiopian government to pull out troops and spare Ethiopian lives can’t be bad either.

It is reasonable to think of it as “a strategic move”. This can’t be foreseen, even as some know-it-all experts and  critics attempt to do ..only time will tell. 

PM Abiy’s transitional Administrator appointees in Mekele shouldn’t be targets of sleeper cells of TPLF assassins…(it’s reported 25 or more in Mekele were assassinated and the killing still continues there  and elsewhere in Tigray even as  Mr. Debresion  claims he  has taken charge ).

The withdrawal and pause indeed maybe in the best interest of the PM Abiy’s government and the nation.

The international dogs of war don’t like the sieze fire and are already hyping a “regional war”, “a failed state”..etc,  even after 40 million plus Ethiopians went out to elect their leaders on June 21, 2021 in full view of the world.

Head of African Union’s observer mission praised the elections. Talk about the western media raining on the Ethiopian people parades and sucking the oxygen out of the modest of success in the election process.

Ethiopians made a timely and impressive small step at a free and fair election.

Yesterday’s West accusation and blaming of PM Abiy’s government for cutting off electricity, phone lines , hospital generators…etc… and other charges after all the ENDF and Eritrean forces have pulled out of Tigray is an unfair judgement and shows lack of appreciation for seize fire and peace in Ethiopia.

The big powers have been conjuring up “devastating impact” “horror” “worsening” situation….and order Addis Ababa to ensure security in Tigray…. In the mean time…Al Sissi must be cracking a smile or two these days thinking the second fill the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’ (GERD) will be forgotten. 

ኢትዮጵያውያንን የመበታተኑ ሴራ

ኢትዮጵያውያን የመበታተኑ ሴራ በሰፊው ቀጥሏል።በፕሮፌሰር መረራ ጉዲና የሚመራው የኦሮሞ ፌደራሊስት ኮንግረስ (ኦፈኮ) አና በአቶ ዳውድ ኢብሳ የሚመራው የኦሮሞ ነፃነት ግንባር (ኦነግ) በትብብር የኦሮሚያ መንግስት ማቋቋማቸውን ይፋ አድርገዋል።

ይኼ የፖለቲካ ሂደታቸው በግልፅ የሚያሳየው ከትግራይ ብሔርተኞች ጋር በመናበብ በትግራይ ውስጥ የተፈጠረውን ቀውስ በኦሮሚያ ውስጥ ለመድገም የታቀደ ሴራ ነው። 

አላማው ጠቅላላ ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ ቀውስ ለመፍጠር ነው።አንደሚነገረውም ከሆነ በቀውሱም ምክንያት/ሰበብ ፕሮፌሰር መራራ ጉዲና ከአሜሪካኖች ጋር አሾክሹከው የጠነሰሱትን ሴራ ወይም እቅድ ሥራ ላይ ለማዋል ነው ። በዚህም አካሄድ ከሁለቱ አንዳቸው የበላይነት መሪነት ቦታ ለመያዝ ነው።

እስከዛሬ ድረስ ታሪክ የሚያሳየው አቶ ዳዊት ኢብሳ መሪ ካልሆኑ ተቀናቃኛቸውን ከድርጅታቸው ማባረር ወይም ጠንከር ካለ ደግሞ ማጥፋት ነው።

ፕሮፌሰሩም ቢሆን በጣም ተሳስተዋል። ከተማሪዎች ንቅናቄ ጀምሮ እስከዛሬ ድረስ፣ለሰው ልጅ እኩልነት ሲሉ ብዙ ኢትዮጵያውያን የሁሉንም ኢትዮጵያውያኖች መብትና እኩልነት ማለታቸው ይመስላቸው ነበር። በተለይ የኦሮሞ መብት ማለታቸው ግልፅ አልነበረም።

ዛሬም የተካኑት ቀረርቶ፡ ማለት ብሔራዊ መግባባት ፤ብሔራዊ ሸንጎ፤ ብሔራዊ ዕርቅ፤ ወዘተርፈ… ማለታቸው ደግሞ በኪሳቸው የሸጎጧትን ቅልጥ ያለ ብሕርተኝነት በአደባባይ አውጠተው የኦሮሞ ንጉስ አርጉኝ እያሉን ነው። የአቶ ዳዊትን አቛም እንደሆነ ሕዝብ ያውቀዋል። የሰሞኑን የመርጫ ሂደት ደወል ያበሰረውን አዲስ ዘመንና የሕዝቡን ስሜት ሁለቱም ፖለቲከኞች የተገነዘቡት አይመስሉም ። 

ይኼ ድርጊታቸው የኦሮሞን ሕዝብ ይጎዳል፤ የኢትዮጵያን ሕዝብ ይጎዳል ። ከወያኔ ጋር ሆናችሁ ኢትዮጵያውያን ለማፍረስ ከሆነ አይሳካላችሁም!

ኢትዮጵያውያ ለዘለዓለም ትኑር!!