Somali Ethiopians In Europe Accused Melez of Endangering Regional Parliament’s Integrity
Zurich (HAN) March 7, 2005- A deep yearning, shared by people in Somali zone and Ethiopians the world over, for an identity and a history which it seems ... inhumane, unjust and unwise to deny them. We believe that everyone in Ethiopia, regardless of party affiliation, can relate to that.

Few of us will forget the glorious days, the foundation of the Federal Ethiopian Parliament, with its sense of history, its sense of identity and its sense of purpose. Then came the questioning, the sniping and backbiting; for we Ethiopians are both passionate and impatient. We want things sorted and we want them sorted now to clean the house, the house of federation, the house of partnership, the cabinet ministers of Federal Ethiopia. Dear Melez Wakeup! How you can ignore the Somali national regional state parliament’s decision and appointed him "Your deputy minister of Water, Mr. Abdulrashid Dulane rafle" while his regional parliament sacked him for his allegedly clandestinely collaborating with anti-peace forces in the State(ONLF/Al-Itihad and OLF". Walta reported and said this:

"Jijjiga, July 21, 2003 (WIC)- The Ongoing 5th Regular Conference of the Somali State Council has sacked the President the State, Abdureshid
Duleni. Speaker of the State council, Ali Mohammod Kanaye told journalists that the president was earlier evaluated for various acts he had allegedly committed while in power, adding that, he was also supposed to submit report to the ongoing conference which he failed to do. The speaker said Abdulreshid was accused of allegedly becoming an impediment to the implementation of development activities and engaging in fraudulent activities in bid awards and projects to be executed in the state. According to the House speaker, the president has also failed to resolve the problem of peace and security as well as ethnic conflicts in collaboration with the militia and police forces, he said, adding that, Abdureshid has also been charged with allegedly clandestinely collaborating with anti-peace forces in the State(ONLF/Al-itihad and OLF" 

 http://www.waltainfo.com/EnNews/2003/Jul/21Jul03/jul21e7.htm

The Office of the prime minister and  Mr. Abay Sehay should understand the basis of the over a 12 years hostility between ONLF and other Somali tribes. The Jigjiga regime’s destabilizing policies against some of its zones in Somali National Regional state must not be underestimated. The ONLF and Jigjiga, police and Militias cooperate frequently and attackes other Somali tribes (Non Ogaden Tribes) and thereby loot and terrorize the suffering of the nomadic Somalis. Besides, this regional administration (ONLF supporters with Jigjiga Authority) terrorizing its own citizens, particularly the non Ogaden tribes, and there are 2 million Ethiopian-Somalis who have been exposed to long hidden atrocities, gross human rights violations and are presently living in subhuman conditions in the Somali region of Ethiopia, under jigjiga’s illegal activities against citizens and nomadic areas. These tribes in Somali National regional states (Non Ogadens clans) will keep on pressing their long struggle of fighting injustice until they get back all their human dignities and rights, including their basic principle, all of which have been stolen and hidden from them as well as the World by successive brutal Regional Jigjiga governments for over a 12 years, the present one being the worst of all of them!!!

The late John F Kennedy seldom used the word "politics", but spoke instead of public service. You and the Ethiopian people, together, are in public service-we are called to be men and women for others. That is a tough call. You need a sense of personal identity for responsibility and credibility.

And must know who you are and what you are about. You need a sense of responsibility and identify mistakes, recognizing that the Somali Nation regional state parliament is something great and what it can yet be. However, with that sense of identity comes the need for responsibility. You are in public service. You are called to lead and correct your cabinet and respect the decision of the Somali national regional parliament. By: Jigjiga Action Group, London. UK.

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Ethiopia Won The policy to return Professionals help fuel boom ADDIS ABABA, March 7, 2005, By Raymond Thibodeaux,  -- After 23 years of living abroad, Tadiwos Belete left Boston five years ago to return to his native Ethiopia. He hoped to cash in on what he sees as an untapped market here: one-stop, full-service beauty salons and day spas. The venture might seem risky considering that most Ethiopians earn less than $2 a day, nearly a sixth of its population teeters on the edge of hunger, and the country is consistently ranked among the world's poorest. But Belete and others see promise in this Horn of Africa nation, which is experiencing a boom of sorts, with its economy for the past two years expanding faster than China's. ''I'm not here doing charity work. I'm a businessman," Belete, 40, said recently, his voice rising above the hectic sparkle of his hair salon as he straightened a woman's black locks between his fingers to snip off the ends. ''Ethiopia is growing, and I want to be part of its development." The road to wealth rarely leads back to Africa. But even as millions of Africans line up at foreign embassies for visas to the West, another trend is developing: Thousands of Africans and those with African roots in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean are returning each year to their ancestral homeland. Not since the early 1960s, as one African nation after another gained its independence from European nations, has there been such a fervent interest among expatriate Africans in returning home. Government officials in Ghana and Ethiopia, apparently the two countries most attractive to returnees, have estimated the number of returning Africans to be in the thousands. Business leaders in Ghana and Ethiopia have launched their own ''back to Africa" campaigns to retrieve the more successful among their diaspora and attract black urban professionals from the United States and Europe. In some cases, they are lured to Africa with promises of easy citizenship, inexpensive real estate, and tax breaks, helping to reverse the westward migration of its best educated and most talented. Ghana, once a hub for the West African slave trade, is reaching back centuries to woo US blacks to the land of their forefathers. Similar to Israel's granting of automatic citizenship to Jews, black Americans can claim their ''right of abode" in Ghana, allowing them to work and own land. Citizenship is all but guaranteed after they reside in the country for seven years. Several African embassies in the United States and Europe have started recruiting top entrepreneurs from among the diaspora, appealing to their sense of patriotism and duty to persuade them to start businesses and develop home-grown talent. Ethiopia's success in attracting its own citizens living abroad is largely responsible for the boom in Addis Ababa, its capital

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