Eritrea exits African bloc over Somalia dispute

Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:01AM EDT

ASMARA, April 22 (Reuters) - Eritrea said on Sunday it had suspended its membership in an east African regional body after a rift with arch-foe Ethiopia at a meeting on Somalia this month threatened to divide the region.

The withdrawal from the seven-member Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is the latest sign of deteriorating relations between Asmara and regional countries over Somalia where hundreds died in fighting this week.

"The Government of Eritrea was compelled to take the move due to the fact that a number of repeated and irresponsible resolutions that undermine regional peace and security have been adopted in the guise of IGAD," said a statement on the government Web site, shabait.com.

A meeting of IGAD foreign ministers two weeks ago in Kenya became a forum for the festering feud between Ethiopia and Eritrea, still bitter over their 1998-2000 border war and locked in what many see as a proxy war in Somalia.

Somalia and ally Ethiopia accuse Eritrea of undermining the interim government by giving aid to insurgents involved in some of the worst fighting in Mogadishu in 15 years.

Eritrea blames the United States and Ethiopia for "irresponsible" interference in Somali affairs after Addis Ababa and Somali government troops ousted Islamists in a war over the New year.

Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea are the countries who make up the east African bloc.

The announcement came from the Eritrean foreign ministry, which was given a new chief last week after its former head died of a heart attack in 2005, according to the Web site.

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL22642106._CH_.2400

Slaughter in Mogadishu

Mother with 40 Day Old Son in Mogadishu

This CART Analysis will be about Ethiopia (Abyssinia) in the 1930’s compared to what it is today. These parallels can be applied to some of the other countries in Africa. It is the mentality of the leaders which determines the outcome of situations. I have observed what has been developing in Somalia for quite some time now. I have also observed the actions of the various players in the region as well as those outside of the region. I have had the opportunity to hear and read what various leaders have said and continue to say and know which are liars. I was not born in either of the African countries that are involved in this violent maelstrom. Therefore, I have no reason to be bias in my assessment of what has and is happening in Somalia. My interest is that of oneness within IGAD. We no longer put off what we must do today for tomorrow.

Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki & Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni	Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
You see parts of Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia along with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. These are the nations that makeup IGAD.

The Spots of The Deceiver and Oppressor Has Not Changed

A government that is not supported by the people it governs cannot bring true and effective and sustainable social and economic development to a country. African leaders must think long and hard about whose agenda they will promote. Will it be the agenda that will benefit the people they govern or the agenda of corporations from foreign countries? Firm foundations that stand the test of time are built upon principles. If the principle is African autonomy, then Ethiopia and Uganda should not be in between the sheets with American and European corporate wolves. Wolves divide and then as a pack, devour you one by one. The fact that only Ugandan troops, supposedly, representing the African Union, are present in Somalia sends a very loud and appropriate message to Somalia’s President Abdullahi Yusuf.

The nations of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia and Djibouti makes up the trading bloc of nations known as IGAD (Inter-Governmental Authority on Development). What Ethiopia has and is doing in Somalia with backup from Uganda is equivalent to cannibalism. Kenya could have stood much stronger than it did by refusing to work with the Bush Administration with its interrogation of Somalis fleeing the carnage in Mogadishu. It could have refused to turn persons over to the government of Prime Minister Zenawi of Ethiopia for interrogation. Mr. Zenawi has increasingly lost the faith and trust of the Ethiopian people. The 74 deaths in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia were long known to be a probability. The Ogaden Liberation Front has been at odds with the Ethiopian government for a long time. Most of the OLF are ethnic Somalis and have strongly expressed their displeasure with Ethiopian troops devastating Mogadishu and other areas of Somalia. The innocent blood in Mogadishu flows at the feet of America, Ethiopia, Uganda and even Kenya. IGAD and the African Union must put an end to this extended adventurism in criminal behavior perpetuated by the Bush Administration in the name of “terrorism”. South Africa is right to reject sending troops as a part of the African Union to Somalia. South Africa is right to stand by Zimbabwe, an old lion of Central Africa that fought against European and American hegemony and South Africa’s Apartheid. How can we forget these powerful words of our brother genius, Stevie Wonder: “Peace has come to Zimbabwe…….” We must not forget, the spots of the oppressor have not changed. The Somali President Yusuf and Parliament of Prime Minister Gedi is building a genocidal war crimes case against themselves when they tell all Somalis to leave the area of Mogadishu where they are carrying out the mass murder. Eritrea is right to speak out against the carnage that is happening in Mogadishu. It does not matter that Eritrea has a border dispute with Ethiopia or whether Eritrea is or has been providing arms to the Union of Islamic Court. Some say, what about the UN resolutions prohibiting the sell of arms in Somalia. It has never prevented the Bush Administration from providing arms and other aid to the warlords in Somalia, many who are members of President Yusuf’s government. It has not prevented the Ethiopian government from purchasing weapons from North Korea on which there is a weapons export ban. It has not prevented the Bush Administration from providing money and other military assistance to the Ethiopian military which was stationed in Somalia long before its invasion of Mogadishu.

Still I Rise; We Rise; Africa Rise

The Bush Administration has caused massive deaths of people of Afro-Asiatic descent in Iraq and Somalia. The scope of “Black Leadership” in America must rise beyond only African Americans in the United States. Why? It is because the wellbeing of Blacks in the United States is directly related to Blacks in Africa, Haiti and other areas of the world. Europeans and their brethren in America, Canada, Australia and elsewhere want the richness of Africa. They want it under their terms. Those terms includes “enforcing their will when, where, against whom and as often as they want”. The economic predators should not be allowed to have it without the Black Universe being first in line to benefit from it. It must be an equitable exchange. When HIV/AIDS was devastating Africa, most of the “Black Leadership” were quiet or singing the lying religious mantra, “its God’s curse”, whistling as the hearse rolls on. In other words, bad, bad Africans, an old fad, so deserving of heaven’s judgment. The joy or pleasure of lovemaking is not a sole leisure and delicacy of the rich, famous European. In it, the poor, the destitute and non-European find some moments of bliss and tranquility from their troubles. It was Charles Darwin who stated that a specie placed into a closed environment with few resources will react in two ways: 1) Sexually or; 2 through Fighting. If the Creator speaks to these religious false prophets and prognosticators, then why didn’t they get this one right? Why did they not know that HIV was the makings of the man-god, those who would be Creator, the “wanna be” but can never be? It was the biggest weapon of mass murder ever constructed by humans for specific humans. When and as White religious organizations were and are exploiting the poverty of Africa, using it as leverage to perform intelligence gathering and establish lucrative mineral extraction contracts, “Black Leadership” was and is quiet and some are even aiding these wolves disguised as sheep. Early in the morning, BET (Black Entertainment Television) has the humanitarian programs on tv which exploits Africans using babies who are naked skin-and-bones because of the wasting nature of HIV/AIDS. They play a money game with the numbers, knowing if they have 10 million viewers they could probably get $100 million. It is not a “World Vision” but one of world derision, confusion and contradiction. Such is the modern “temple of the money changers……”

Africa requires trade, not more aid. The greater the aid the greater into oblivion is Africa’s fade. Africa requires my investment, your investment, our investment, our trust. The African Diaspora requires Africa’s riches, Africa’s patience, Africa’s strength, Africa’s trust. As Maya Angelou said, “Still I rise”. The African rhythm of sound and speech yet reverberates to motivate; to stimulate; to activate to bring the hip to elevate into the hop required for The Next Level above the whispering devil. Yet will Africa and its Diaspora rise because it is our will to do so, not the goodness of Europa; it is the destiny of old in spite of being sold; it is for Africa’s progeny written in stone long ago, we rise. In spite of the deaths, we rise. In spite of the liars in religious attire capturing the emotions and devotions of ignorance in the people beneath the steeple, no matter the rank as they laugh all the way to the bank, we rise. As we were in the beginning, so we shall be in the end, the new era, to the oppressor, the lesser, only for our own benefit shall our backs bend. No, never again will we trust in those who crave and lust, lie and connive, steal and kill for that which is not theirs nor their heirs. Still I rise; we rise; Africa rise, we possess our riches.

Shells rock Mogadishu, corpses rot in street

Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:24AM BST

By Sahal Abdulle

MOGADISHU, April 22 (Reuters) - Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu on Sunday for a fifth day of battles between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that have killed more than 200 people, residents said…….

"I have lost all hope," one woman said, walking at the head of 11 relatives, mainly children……

http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUKL22305258._CH_.242020070422

Then and Now

In the 1930s, the Ethiopian people and the leadership were extremely cautious of what Europeans and Americans were doing in Ethiopia. In many ways, we could compare Ethiopia’s position with regards to Europeans’ in Ethiopia to that of Zimbabwe today. For a few years, Ethiopia was not as devastated by the American biological warfare HIV/AIDS as was central African nations (ground zero). This was due in part to the cautious nature of many Ethiopians.

I will use the writings of a European Baron Roman Prochazka to show how Europeans assumed their paleness of skin somehow awarded them automatic privilege, even within Black Africa. This man’s story also demonstrates how the Ethiopian people refused to worship the Europeans and their incredibly rich brethren, the Americans. The Americans were incredibly rich as a result of detachment from the European taxation system and mostly because of the immense wealth African slave labor had brought to the American government and private enterprise. This was the original “Black Gold”, before oil. In fact, the American government literally gave away millions of acres of land. Land was the primary stimulant for wealth in America. Blacks did not qualify or benefit from any of this but they brought greater value to much of that land on massive plantations where thousands of African worked without pay. Now, we in the African Diaspora must seed the growth of Africa and ourselves.

The following was in the 1930s from the book, Abyssinia: The Powder Barrel by Baron Roman Prochazka:

Method of Dividing Blacks

Actually, there is no such thing as a unified Abyssinian (Ethiopia) people, but merely an Amharic minority amounting to about 20% of the total population, which nominally rules all the peoples living in the Ethiopian Empire, keeping them under its yoke, as far as its strength and influence allow, and in a state of slavery. The greater part of the non-Christian tribes in Abyssinia have no more burning desire than to be freed from the tyranny of the Amhars. If they could vote freely they would certainly prefer a European protectorate, with the prospect of progress under ordered and settled conditions, to their present life under the oppression of harsh and universally hated extortioners and slave-drivers.

Today, we have those in Ethiopia and among us who think it’s best to have White rulers to rule them. They then act out this desire. The author’s goal was to incite violence against the Amhars encouraging the other Ethiopian ethnic groups to rise up against it. For what purpose? It was so that the Europeans would have a better chance of ruling over the Ethiopian people. They had already taken over the surrounding countries and people and wanted to use those people to destroy what they despised as the “Ethiopian Empire”. Prochazka would constantly use the treatment of white women and girls in his book to make his case against the Ethiopian people and government. Not once were any of the whites killed by the Ethiopians, yet the Whites were often acting as though they had special privilege in Ethiopia. You see this god-complex among Whites of that era in the following:

Dr. Kulmudin, the Swedish adviser to the Foreign Office at Addis Ababa, who died in 1933, was replaced by the American Prof. Ernest Work who also represented Ethiopia in the League of Nations.

The League of Nations was the predecessor of the United Nations. What you observe here are Europeans not even allowing a Black person to represent a Black nation in the League of Nations. Today, the weaken Ethiopia by buying out its leaders.

Prochazka’s True Nature

“It is absolutely monstrous to what consequences the principle of regarding the evidence of natives as being on a level with that of white people will lead.”

However, the Black Universe must recognize the power they truly have. The world knows that the best long distance runners in the world are the East Africans. How was this looked upon in the 1930s?

Identify Your Strengths and Weakness of the Oppressors

The native certainly has the one advantage over the European colonial troops, who are not used to the climate, lack of water, and unvarying diet, that he can keep on the march for days with a minimum of nourishment (a few handfuls of dry grain) and with hardly any clothing, and makes light of the great fluctuations in altitude and climatic conditions. Foreign troops can only make very slow progress in the deserts and mountainous country unless they are furnished with special equipment and provisioning. And the danger of pestilence is great, both for men and animals.

In Iraq, the equipment is being destroyed and the method of delivering provision is slowly being cutoff with the blowing up of bridges while decreasing the size of the Green Zone.

What were the suggested methods of conquering the Ethiopian people?

How to Defeat Blacks

One thing can be said with certainty, and that is that it would be risky to push forward a rapid advance into Ethiopian territory, and that to be successful it would be absolutely necessary to penetrate gradually, fortifying the conquered positions at once, and establishing the necessary connections (roads, railways, bridges, telephone lines, and water supply pipes) with the colonial hinger-land.

Now to translate this…… He is saying that the Ethiopian people would defeat the European powers if they did not first build infrastructure to provide them with food, water, shelter, and communications. Lastly, they would have to use the Africans along the coastal areas and in British controlled Sudan to help them defeat the Ethiopians. However, it did not end there. What you are about to read is something that I have indicated in past CART Analysis about the “isms”, specifically HUMANITARIANISM.

Humanitarianism Development, Divide and Conquer

The task of opening up the country could be accomplished not so much by military operations as by constant efforts toward establishing a friendly understanding with the border tribes and by proclaiming development, free of all barbaric oppression, under the rule of the native chiefs.

In the moment of economic need or greed, the European psyche has not changed. This is seen through the use of “fighting terrorism” for purpose of permanently capturing the critical raw resources of the Near East (Middle East) and Africa. The result is the evil deeds being committed in Somalia by the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia under the guidance of President George Bush for the benefit of American corporate interests.

Mogadishu 'is real hell'
21/04/2007 22:29  - (SA)  

Mogadishu - Mortar shells and machine gun clashes between Ethiopian soldiers and Islamist [Islamist is not an evil force] insurgents killed at least 55 civilians on Saturday and swelled the exodus from the Somali capital.

Renewed fighting that has convulsed Mogadishu has now claimed at least 168 lives since Wednesday, according to a human rights group that tracks casualty figures.

Residents predicted the civilian toll would rise as many people were believed to have died in areas now cut off by the fighting. Four days of fighting early this month killed at least 1 000 civilians.

The Ethiopian army fire mortar and rocket rounds from the presidential palace in southern Mogadishu at several rebel hideouts, sparking a volley of retaliatory fire from insurgents, residents said.

"As of this evening, we have 55 people confirmed killed. But this is not the final figure, there are areas that we have not visited," said Sudan Ali Ahmed, chairperson of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Organisation.

The organisation has collated casualty figures from hospitals, other humanitarian groups and bodies left in the streets.

He said there was also a "very high" number of wounded. "What we are seeing in Mogadishu is unspeakable, unbelievable ... it is real hell."

Witnesses said several dismembered bodies were strewn in the battle zone.

Islamist insurgents and some clan warlords have vowed to oust the Ethiopians who helped Somalia's UN-backed government in January to expel the Somali Council of Islamic Courts from Mogadishu.

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