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Ogaden Region: UN and ACF Local Staff attacked+ Villages burned down. |
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 Ogaden Region: UN and ACF Local Staff attacked+ Villages burned down.
June 14 2012.
Thursday ( Ogadentoday Press)-the UN-WFP local staff and a French Action Contrela faim(ACF) in Ogaden region was attacked by the Ethiopian security intelligence, a source based in Kenya said to Ogadentoday Press.
The staff has been attacked by their house, some of relatives are arrested while others escaped, the WFP local staff is detained in Kebridahar Town in Ogaden, the source added.
ACF conducts nutritional and water sanitation projects in Qorahay Zone, WFP distributes food to the local people but aid organizations in Ogaden Region do not deliver the food and aid to the vulnerable population as right groups said in report.
With the Red Cross (ICRC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) both expelled from southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden since 2007.
Ethiopia has been accused of using the aid as political tools, and some food aid fall into the hands of Ethiopian ruling Party.
There is no independent news source in Ogaden Region, and Information is very limited.
Currently, Two UN localstaff have been in custody for the last six months and they are accused of that they are sympathizers of ONLF, Ogaden national Liberation Front.
Abdi rahmaan Sheekh, The WFP security staff in Jigjiga is facing the court in Addis Ababa next weeks as Ethiopia government announced last month.
Ogadentoday Press cannot confirm the reason but the incidents took place in Ogaden Region, Kebridahar as, our reporter in Kenya received a reliable source.
Dhagahbur Zone.
(Ogadentoday Press)- The Ethiopian troops have burnt several villages in the Ogaden region, and leaving many families homeless. Tension in the affected districts remains high and local residents are outraged at the government’s ‘inhumanity’.
The residents said, a group of military convey arrived in the Lebiga and Hunjiri villages in Dhagaxbur Zone, and ordered the local people to move a another place, but the residents refused and they burned down the whole two villages.
There is no comment from the Ethiopian government and the ONLF about the incidents.
It is not the first time, villages are burned, and civilians are forced to leave the villages, in 2008, Ethiopian governments burned almost 10 villages in Ogaden region.
Human right watch blamed the Ethiopian National Defense forces strongly.
The ONLF, founded in 1984, says the Somali-speaking population in Ethiopia's oil-rich Ogaden region has been marginalized by Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia's military launched an offensive against the ONLF after its fighters attacked a Chinese-run oil venture in Ogaden in 2007.
Ogadentoday Press.
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