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As predicted here crocodile tears have begun to run down the faces of the likes of Anthony Lake, CIA director nominee turned Executive Director of UNICEF, as some 15 million people starve in the Horn of Africa. Tony Lake appeals to the world for tens, no, hundreds of millions of dollars to save the starving people of Ethiopia and Somalia, never once telling you that the majority, some 10 million, are in the Ogaden and Oromia regions and being subjected to a western funded food aid blockade by the Ethiopian military.

Another five million people, maybe more, are starving in Somalia. The heads of the western food agencies are loath to admit that a million or more of those starving are refugees created by the UN funded Ethiopian and AU armies invading and occupying Somali since 2006. The very same refugees who had their minimum survival rations cut by 70% by the likes of Tony Lake due to “funding shortfalls” before all the crocodile tears began to flow.

SInce 2008 and the defeat and withdrawal of the Ethiopian army which invaded Somalia in 2006, the UN and its military wing in the African Union have intervened directly in the “war on terror” in Somalia in the form of some 10,000 troops, mostly from Uganda.

In the past 3 years the UN/AU army has laid waste to over half of Somalia’s former capital of Mogadishu. Some 30 square miles of Mogadishu have been pretty much obliterated by heavy artillery, mortars, tanks and helicopter gun ships operated by the Ugandan army. In the last 3 years some 500,000 or more Somali residents of Mogadishu have had to flee for their lives due to the relentless UN/AU offensive, joining the half a million refugees created by the Ethiopian invasion.

The drought ravaging the Horn of Africa is already four years old and has developed into the worst drought to hit the region in 60 years. With the onset of drought in 2007 came the onset of a major counterinsurgency in the Ogaden region by the Ethiopian military, marked paid in full by the western aid and financial institutions. And with the counterinsurgency came the need to cover up this crime and so the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders were expelled. Out of sight, out of mind is the slogan today for most of the international media with no camera crews, no journalists, no news at all if they can help it about the 10 million facing forced starvation in south east and south west Ethiopia, the Ogaden and Oromia.

The last journalists who tried to get into the Ogaden, two Swedes, were sold out by the Somali Puntland warlords, ambushed by the Ethiopian para-militaries, their escorts slaughtered, with both journalists wounded and thrown into an Ethiopian dungeon, a message to all and wide to mind your own business when it comes to genocide in the Horn of Africa.

So the crocodile tears will flow and hundreds of millions of dollars supposedly meant to feed millions of starving people in the Horn of Africa will once again end up paying for the Ethiopian military’s latest arms purchase or in the western bank accounts of Ethiopian P.M. Meles Zenawi and his cohorts. And for a while the international media will churn out stories filled with heartbreaking images of starving children in the Horn of Africa and never once tell you how some 10 million of these people are suffering from a western funded food aid blockade.

Thomas C. Mountain

Asmara, Eritrea

thomascmountain at yahoo dot com

East african Kenyan news: The United States added its voice to growing calls at an African summit for more troops to tackle Somalia’s Islamist rebels, who this month killed 76 people in suicide attacks in Uganda. Some countries are against the policy change, citing evidence that AMISOM has killed civilians. NTV Kenyan youtube.com – channel.

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East african news: By Matt McGrath (BBC News Science reporter) Africa is witnessing the birth of a new ocean, according to scientists at the Royal Society. Geologists working in the remote areas of the Horn region say the ocean will eventually split the African continent in two, though it will take about 10 million years. Lead researcher Tim Wright who is presenting the research at the Royal Society’s Summer Exhibition, described the events as “truly incredible”. Used to understanding changes in the planet on timescales of millions of years, the international team of scientists including Dr Wright have seen amazing changes in the region in the past fi ve years, where the continent is cracking open, quite literally underneath their feet. In 2005, a 60km long stretch of the earth opened up to a width of eight metres over a period of just ten days. Hot, molten rock from deep within the Earth is trickling to the surface and creating the split. Underground eruptions are still continuing and, ultimately, the Horn of Africa will fall away and a new ocean will form. ‘A smaller Africa’ Dr James Hammond, a seismologist from the University of Bristol – who has been working in the region – says that parts of the region are below sea level and the ocean is only cut off by about a 20- metre block of land in Eritrea. “Eventually this will drift apart,” he told the BBC World Service. “The sea will fl ood in and will start to create this new ocean. “It will pull apart, sink down deeper and deeper and eventually… parts of southern Ethiopia, Somalia will drift off, create a new island, and we’ll have a smaller Africa and a very big island that fl oats out into the Indian Ocean.” The researchers say that they are extremely lucky to be able to witness the birth of this ocean as the process is normally hidden beneath the seas. The team hope to conduct experiments in the area that will help understand how the surface of the Earth is shaped. They believe that the information they glean from observing the shaping of the Earth will help scientists better understand natural hazards such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Source: BBC News

East african news Inside Djibouti- The khat trade K24 TV. For a country that depends exclusively on commerce for its economic growth and its neighbors for nation building, Djibouti has done remarkably well in economic growth. With a central port key for trade and a port of entry for four countries the exchequer is smiling all the way to the bank, nothing thrives in Djibouti more than khat trade.