Ethiopian delegation at the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony: Where are the Ethiopian athletes? What are Woyanne cadres doing in the delegation?

EDITOR’S NOTE: African countries need to boycott the 2010 World Cup that will be held in South Africa in retaliation for the government’s lack of action in protecting immigrant from some of the evil elements in the society. The problem is most African countries are being ruled by thugs like our own Meles Zenawi who commit much worse crimes against their own population than what we see in South Africa against immigrants.

By Jonah Fisher, BBC

JOHANNESBURG — Four years ago, her husband, a Zimbabwean activist, was killed. The family escaped to South Africa and settled in a suburb of Johannesburg.

But in May they were forced to flee once more.

More than 60 people were killed as South Africans turned on the foreigners who had been living among them.

It was Gloria’s South African neighbour who told her she had to go.

“She went and picked up our laundry and dipped it in muddy water,” Gloria said, sitting outside her white tent.

“She then said: ‘I’m attacking you’ to the Congolese woman, ‘then the next one will be Gloria and the third one is Sisay. All these people I want you out of here.’ So it was a big fight.”

Fearful of her life, Gloria and her children have – along with thousands of other foreigners – spent the last two months sheltering in government camps. But they were never intended to be permanent.

“They have to leave the shelter because we actually invited them to the shelter to provide for them in their time of need,” Thabo Masebe from Gauteng Provincial Government told me.”

“We are convinced that conditions exist in all the communities within Gauteng for all the displaced people to safely return to their places. We don’t expect anyone to refuse to leave.

But in the townships which saw the worst of May’s violence, time has proved a slow healer.

In Ramaphosa, to the east of Johannesburg, a Mozambican man was doused in petrol, set alight and burnt to death.

But locals such as Eva Sephiwe see the foreigners as the aggressors and not the victims.

“I cannot say they will be killed,” she told me, “but the community does not want to accept them and the community says we won’t allow them to come back.”

We did manage to find some foreigners left in Ramaphosa.

Huddled around the local police station was a small group of bedraggled Mozambicans. Sleeping on ragged mattresses under trees, they said they were scared to venture into Ramaphosa.

While we were speaking to the Mozambicans, a South African woman who worked next door to the police station called me over.

She said the real roots of the xenophobic attacks had not been addressed. She said it was the government’s fault for not addressing the lack of opportunities for the country’s poorest people.

“This is just not human,” she told me. “Sensible people would go home. I know it’s bad on the other side, but sensible people would go home if you’re not wanted in a society.”

‘Evicted’

As we were in Ramaphosa, Gloria, the Zimbabwean woman, called us on the phone.

Gloria Mahango and her children after being evicted from the camp, Johannesburg, South Africa

We returned to find her weeping outside the camp surrounded by her children and their few belongings. Her tent had been taken down and she had been evicted early.

Unable to return to Zimbabwe and too scared to go back to her home in Johannesburg, she was now stranded by the side of a busy road.

“They say that they were working on a plan and holding meetings to help us and that hasn’t happened,” she said. “They haven’t reintegrated us or helped us all they’ve done is put me here on the street with my children. The government has really treated me very badly here in South Africa.”

That night Gloria slept in the open with her children alongside her.

When the other shelters are closed in Gauteng, more than 2,000 foreigners will be forced to choose whether to risk returning to their homes – or to wait like Gloria, hoping and praying that their wretched luck is about to change.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the kind of atrocities by Tigrean generals against civilians of a neighboring country that the Tigrean elites in the Diaspora defends. We can excuse those inside the country for they are being silenced by the repressive regime. The Tigrean elites in the Diaspora parrot Meles Zenawi’s Rwanda talking point as another unspeakable crime against humanity is being committed at this very moment by occupation forces led by Tigrean officers, under a Tigrean regime and cheered by the Tigrean ‘educated’ class — in collaboration with hodams (opportunists) from other ethnic groups, and with the full knowledge of the U.S. Government, European Union, and African Union.

(somchat.com) — The Ethiopian Woyanne troops in Somalia continued their rampage. They once again detained unarmed civilians and beheaded them, then put them out on the streets as to make example of them.

The ruthless terrorist acts happened in an area between Afgoye, where the TFG and Ethiopian Woyanne troops currently control, and Mogadishu. As witnesses say, the Ethiopian Woyanne army stopped a car full of civilians on Thursday evening then escorted the passengers to an unknown location where they apparently tortured them overnight. Early Friday morning on August 15, the same passengers were found dead, 8 of them beheaded in a nearby street in between Mogadishu and Afgooye town.

So far, no reports of investigation on the matter and no one from the [puppet] TFG appeared to be interested to discuss the civilian murders.

This is not the first time the Ethiopian Woyanne troops killed and beheaded unarmed Somali civilians. On May 8th 2008, the Ethiopian Woyanne troops killed 17 Somali civilians. About two weeks prior to that, on April 23rd, Ethiopian Woyanne troops slit the throats of 20 Somali clerics in a mosque. On Sunday July 13, several young men were executed by Ethiopian Woyanne troops and TFG militia in Mogadishu and its surroundings.

(DPA) — Somali insurgents attacked the Somali president’s convoy as he prepared to fly out to Ethiopia for crisis talks aimed at healing a rift with the prime minister, reports said on Friday.

The BBC reported that insurgents detonated two landmines near President Abdullahi Yusuf’s convoy as he travelled to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Ethiopian Woyanne troops opened fire after the attack and killed five civilians, the BBC said.

Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, also known as Nur Adde, were flying to Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for talks aimed at solving a bitter row some fear could jeopardise a recent peace deal signed with opposition figures.

Yusuf and Nur Adde have been at loggerheads for weeks about the premier’s decision to fire Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Dheere.

Supporters of Yusuf in parliament have threatened to call a no-confidence motion in the prime minister.

Mogadishu-based radio station Garowe said on its website that the African Union was expected to mediate between the warring leaders.

Nur Adde signed a ceasefire with moderate opposition leaders in June, but the agreement crucially did not encompass al-Shabaab, the insurgent group causing most of the havoc [for the puppet regime] in Somalia.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Guess who owns the fertilizer importing company? Farmers also complain that the chemical-based fertilizer is poisoning the land and underground water sources.

By Jason McLure, Bloomberg

Ethiopia and the World Bank are close to an agreement that will allow the Horn of Africa country to divert $237 million in loans and grants for infrastructure projects to purchase fertilizer, the bank said.

Ethiopia needs the fertilizer before next year’s planting season, Kenicha Ohashi, director of the World Bank’s Ethiopia program, said in an interview at his office in the capital, Addis Ababa, yesterday. Ethiopia is Africa’s largest coffee producer.

“What we’re trying to do is provide foreign exchange,” said Ohashi said. “This is like doing budget support. It’s helping the government with hard currency.” An additional $64 million in credit from the African Development Bank will be diverted for fertilizer purchases, the state-run Ethiopian Herald said on Aug. 2.

Rising domestic demand, drought, and higher world fuel and food prices expanded Ethiopia’s trade deficit to $4.7 billion in the 12 months to July from $3.9 billion a year earlier. The country has less than two months of foreign currency reserves, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The financing of the fertilizer is equivalent to about 10 percent of the World Bank’s $2.4 billion Ethiopia program, which includes $1.6 billion in loans and $800 million in grants this year. Most of that money was allocated to road building, irrigation systems and the construction of power transmission lines to connect Ethiopia and Sudan.

(UN News Center) — Troops from Ethiopia will shortly join the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID), bringing with them their engineering skills to be used in the areas of water installation and the erection of tents and electric power lines.

The advance party of the first Ethiopian Infantry Battalion [correction: it is a private mercenary army of the Meles crime family] to join UNAMID – which seeks to quell the deadly fighting and humanitarian suffering that has raged in the Sudanese region since 2003 – is scheduled to arrive in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state and the headquarters of the mission, over the weekend.

UNAMID said the contingent will be deployed in Kulbus and Silea, both located in West Darfur.

An estimated 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur, an arid and impoverished region on Sudan’s western flank, since 2003, either through direct combat or disease, malnutrition and reduced life expectancy, while another 2.7 million people have been forced to flee from their homes.

In a related development, UNAMID’s Nyala office has received reports that following talks between Deputy Special Representative Henry Anyidoho and South Darfur Governor Ali Mahmoud, the issue of restricting fuel allocations to the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is being resolved.

Oxfam, a non-governmental organization, has “informed us that its fuel allocation was approved as requested, and they were allocated sufficient fuel to run their water pumps in Kalma for a week,” UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.

Other aid agencies have also expressed their satisfaction with the current Government fuel allocations, he said.