OROMO STUDENT PROTESTORS RELEASED FROM JAIL. Barattooti Oromoo Jaha Hidhaa Hiikaman July 9, 2015
Posted by OromianEconomist in Oromia wide Oromo Universtiy students Protested Addis Ababa Expansion Master Plan, Oromians Protests, Oromo and the call for justice and freedom.Tags: #OromoProtests, #OromoProtests 2014, 'BECAUSE I AM OROMO’: SWEEPING REPRESSION IN THE OROMIA, OROMO STUDENT PROTESTORS RELEASED FROM JAIL. Barattooti Oromoo Jaha Hidhaa Hiikaman
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(OroMedia, Adoolessa 9 bara 2015) Barattooti Oromoo bara 2014 keessa Yunversiitii garaa garaa irraa walitti guuramanii hidhaatti darbaman keessaa jaha bilisaan gadhiifaman.
Maddi keenya Finfinnee irraa akka gabaasetti abarattooti kunneen rakkooleen uummata Oromoo akka furmaata argatuufi uummanni Oromoo seeraan ala qe’ee isaa irraa akka hin buqqaaneef karaa nagaan gaaffii mirgaa warra dhiyeessan keessaa adda baafamanii kanneen hidhaatti darban ture.
Barattootia hiikaman Yunversiitii Saayinsiif Teknooloojii Adaamaatti Dursaa Gumii GAAO kan ture barataa Addunyaa Keessoo, barataaToofik Rashiid Yunversiitii Dirree Dhaawaa irraa, Barataa Leenjisaa Alamaayyoo, Barataa Abdii Kamaal, Barataa Magarsaa Warquu, Barataa Bilisummaa Daammanaa ta’uun beekameera.
Akka odeessa nu gahetti, abrattooti kunneen adda dureedhaan barattoota qindeessitaniittu jedhamanii kanneen himatamuudhaan Finfinnee Mana Hidhaa garaa garaa keessatti dararamaa turaniidha.
Barattooti kunneen gaafa Waxabajjii 22, 2015 murtii dhumaatiif Mana Murtii Federaalaatti dhiyaatanii sagalee isaanii erga laatanii booda barattoota wagaga tokkoof hiraarsan beenyaa tokko malee gadhiisaniiru.
Barattooti kunneen kanneen adda duree jedhamanii hanga ammaa hidhamanii turanii dha. Barattooti Oromoo hundi Bilisaan akka gadhiifamaniis beekameera.
Akk odeeffannoo nu gaheetti barattoota yeroo darbe badii malee funaanamanii Finfinneetti ukkaamfaman keessaa Alsan Hasan(kan mana hidhaa keessatti reebamee ajjeefame) waliin kijiba boombii darbattan jedhuun kan hidhame barataa Abbabaa Urgeessaa qofti beellami kan biroo qabameefii ammas mana hidhaa Qaallittii keessatti argama.
Barattooti Oromoo amam hiikamanis ta’ee kanneen mana hidhaa keessatti argaman barattoota Qulqulluu fi Falmitoota Haqaa ta’uu isaanii namooti hedduu irratti waliif galaa jiru.
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(Addis Standard, 9 July 2015), At least six Oromo university students were also among three journalists and two bloggers released from Ethiopian prison yesterday, according to various reports.
The freed Oromo university students include Adugna Kesso, Bilisumma Dammana, Lenjisa Alemayo, Abdi Kamal, Magarsa Warqu, and Tofik Rashid. All were students who were arrested by security agents from various universities located in the Oromiya regional states. No charges were brought against many of them in the last year and three months.
Student Bilisumma Dammana
The arrest of unknown numbers of Oromo University students followed a May 2014 brutal crackdown by the police against university students who protested when a master plan for the expansion of Addis Abeba, the city originally home to the Oromo, was introduced by the federal government.
Student Tofik Rashid
The 10th Addis Abeba and Oromia Special Zone Integrated Development Master plan, which was in the making for two years before its introduction to the public, finally came off as ‘Addis Abeba and the Surrounding Oromia Special Zone Integrated Development Plan.’
The government claims the master plan, which will annex localities surrounding Addis Abeba but are under the Oromiya regional state, was aimed at “developing an internationally competitive urban region through an efficient and sustainable spatial organization that enhances and takes advantage of complementarities is the major theme for the preparation of the new plan.”
The students protested against the plan and the federal government’s meddling in the affairs of the Oromiya regional state, which many legal experts also say was against Article 49(5) of the Ethiopian Constitution that clearly states “the special interest of the State of Oromia in Addis Abeba.”
Charges against university student Nimona Chali were dropped without explanation and he was released some two months ago.
Two months ago, student Nimona Chali, one of the detained students, was released from jail without charges. Student Aslan Hassen died in prison in what the government claimed was a suicide. However, many believe he was tortured to death. No independent enquiry was launched to investigate his death.
Alsan Hassan died while in police custody. Government says it was a sucide, but many say he died of torture.
By the government’s own account, eleven people were killed during university student demonstrations in many parts of the Oromia regional state. However, several other accounts put the number as high as above 50.
http://addisstandard.com/oromo-student-protestors-released-from-jail/
Africa is still struggling with poverty July 9, 2015
Posted by OromianEconomist in Africa, Africa Rising, African Poor.Tags: Africa, Africa is still struggling with poverty, Africa Rising, Africa's cheetahs versus hippo, Draining development: illicit flows from Africa
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http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/07/08/a-global-middle-class-is-more-promise-than-reality/
Over the last few years, sub-Saharan countries have seen significant economic growth. Seven of the ten fastest growing economies in the world between 2011-2015 come from Africa.
But this economic growth has not quite translated into significant poverty reduction. As analysts point out, the number of people on the continent living under $1.25 a day has risen from 358 million in 1996 to 415 million in 2011.
Tanzania for example, which saw an average of 6% GDP growth over the last several years, has grappled with this disconnect. “At the macro-level, we may be doing well, but it does not touch the unemployed or those involved in the informal economy,” a former cabinet minister told Quartz.
However, the latest data from the Pew Research Centre shows that there has been significant poverty reduction in some African countries.
The reduction of poverty and increase in the ranks of the slightly better-off “low-income” category is good news, but the challenge remains that many African countries have not been able to transition people into the middle class.
Africa is still the poorest region in the world overall: With nine out of 10 people either poor or low-income, the continent his home to 20% of the world’s poor, the data show. In some countries virtually the entire population is poor or low-income. The picture is somewhat brighter in Seychelles, Tunisia, South Africa, Morocco and Egypt, where 20% are either middle income or better
Read more at: http://qz.com/449199/africas-economic-growth-still-isnt-creating-enough-of-a-middle-class/
Africa remains the poorest region
(Gulf News, NEW YORK, 10 July 2015): The dramatic lurch of hundreds of millions of people from poverty since the millennium began has not resulted in a truly global middle class, a new report says.
Instead, the improvement in living conditions for almost 700 million people has been a step forward from the desperate existence of $2 or less a day into a low-income world of living on $2 to $10 daily, the Pew Research Center says.
Its report, released Wednesday, looks at changes in income for more than 110 countries between 2001 and 2011, the latest that data for such a large range of countries was available.
The report comes just two days after the United Nations announced success in key development goals adopted by world leaders at the start of the millennium, including the lifting of more than one billion people out of extreme poverty.
Also worth noting: Europe and North America’s global share of the upper-middle income population fell from 76 per cent to 63 per cent by 2011 as the Asia-South Pacific region got richer. Africa remained the poorest region, with 92 per cent of its population either poor or low-income by 2011, and in Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Madagascar and Zambia, “poverty actually increased significantly.”
For years, reaching middle class has been held out as a goal for people in a growing number of countries. China’s rise in particular, with 203 million people there moving into a middle-income life over the decade starting in 2001, has resulted in what the report calls a “pivot to the east.”
More than half of the world’s middle-class population was living in the Asia and South Pacific region by 2011. That’s a jump from 31 per cent to 51 per cent in a decade. Largely because of Asia, the report says the world’s middle-income population nearly doubled over that time, from 399 million to 784 million.
But the gains are hardly seen everywhere. The report shows that while commodity-rich South America and a strengthening Eastern Europe, including Russia, also made strides into the middle class, Africa, India and many parts of Asia have yet to do the same.
The Pew report calls its overall findings “the uneven geography of the emerging middle class.”
The poverty rate for India, Asia’s other population giant, fell from 35 per cent to 20 per cent over the report’s period, but its middle class only grew from 1 per cent to 3 per cent. The report notes that India’s economic reforms began in 1991, 13 years after China, though the scope and pace of the countries’ reforms have varied.
South America almost reached the point where half of its population is at or above middle-income, at 47 per cent.
And despite China’s rise, more than three-fourths of its people were still poor or low-income. The only other countries seeing a significant shift into the middle class, where the poverty rate fell by at least 15 per cent and the middle-income population grew by at least 10 per cent, were Bhutan, Moldova, Ecuador, Argentina and Kazakhstan.
Among countries with a large number of high-income people, or those living on more than $50 a day, the United States stood out from its Western peers by slipping as its economy stalled. Its high-income population actually edged down, from 58 per cent in 2001 to 56 per cent in 2011.
Factors like conflict and falling oil prices likely have affected the findings for some economies, such as Russia’s, in the past few years, the report notes.
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