Copenhagen, Climate Change, China, and O'gaden

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Copenhagen backstory: Ethiopia PM accused of genocide is top African negotiator

 

 

Picture: O'gaden nationals from the ethnically Somali province of Ethiopia protest against giving Ethiopia climate funding; they say it will be used by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to harm the people of their homeland. (InvestigateWest photo by Christopher Crow.)

 

 

Picture: Demonstrations of the O'gaden Diaspora

 

 

COPENHAGEN – Deafening chants rocked the entrance to the conference center where negotiators tried to piece together a global treaty to fight climate change Friday – chants that shed light on the intricate nature of the talks and the difficulty of concluding a deal.

 

 

As 130 heads of state took their place at the negotiating table, just hours before the talks were scheduled to come to a close, the cries outside came largely from O'gadenians, people from a southeastern territory in Ethiopia, 3,600 miles from Denmark. They made their way to Copenhagen to tell United Nations leaders not to negotiate a climate deal with an alleged génocidaire.

 

That would be Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia. Months ago, he was appointed as the African Union’s spokesman for the final days of the UN climate talks. Now, as he appears to be willing to accept less than most Africans want from the industrialized North out of a climate finance deal, many – including the O'gadenians outside – are calling for his removal from power as top-level negotiator.

 

“This is death to millions of Africans,” Mithika Mwenda of Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance said.

 

Read full story here at InvestigateWest.

 

View related video here from InvestigateWest, in which a protester alleges widespread killing and raping by Ethiopian military, as well as environmental damage. Here's another short video interview, , in which protesters allege Zenawi went to Copenhagen to collect cash, not fight climate change. More anti-Kenawi video here.

 

Click here to view photo slideshow , including images of President Obama at the Copenhagen climate talks.

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COPENHAGEN (IPS/TERRA VIVA) – An announcement by Ethiopia and France yesterday caused consternation among the African countries. Is someone trying to break their ranks to get the continent to sign on to a poor deal, they are asking themselves?

 

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is not a happy man. His head slumped in his hands, the triumphs of Ethiopian agriculture, presented at a side event of the COP, seem to escape him completely.

 

Twenty-four hours of confusion stalled talks in the Africa Group following Zenawi’s joint appeal for a climate deal with French president Sarkozy yesterday. "Ethiopia representing Africa" had agreed on a maximum two degree temperature rise and called on the parties to make a $10 billion dollar start-up fund available, raved the French.

 

In what appeared to be an orchestrated move, US president Obama congratulated the Ethiopians on their "leadership".

 

But Ethiopia didn’t represent Africa’s position at all.

 

"This was not the result of consultation," G77/China-chair Lumumba Di-Aping told TerraViva.

 

"It has seriously divided the Africa Group, we don’t even know what’s going on," conceded Ugandan chief negotiator and minister of water and environment, Maria Mutagamba, who foresees Africa might have to walk out of the talks if no long-term funding is put on the table.

 

"I am not sure whether good consultations took place beforehand," Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula told IPS. "I do think though that Zenawi was trying to emphasise the resources Africa needs in the context of adapting to climate change."

 

Many African countries reject the two degree measure, because it would effectively mean a temperature rise of 3.7 degrees on the continent. The $10 billion quick start-up fund is generally regarded as an insult from rich nations that have yet to pledge any long-term funding.

 

The position of the Africa group, TerraViva learnt, is to demand 1.5 percent of the GDP of the industrialised nations, which works out to $600 billion annually for 2013 to 2017. LDCs want 70 percent of that and $2 billion from any quick start-up money.

 

But the Ethiopian move has complicated things. "It was extremely bad timing. There is utter confusion now and we have lost control of the process," the chair of the Lowest Developed Countries (LDCs) bloc, Lesotho’s Bruno Sekoli, told TerraViva.

 

"The substance of the statement is not the problem. In the end it’s not rocket science for the world to agree here, but what really has been hampering the negotiations since Bangkok is the deep spirit of mistrust, the fear that poor countries will strike secret deals with powerful countries. The French intervention has once again lent credit to this suspicion," Sekoli added.

 

And what had Zenawi to say? Did he regret his premature announcement?

 

"What I regret is the way my comments were distorted and the stir that resulted," he told TerraViva. "I do not think trust has been lost in the Africa Group though, we are still united."

 

He vehemently denied being pressured into the announcement by the US and France. "Absolutely not, I was trying to get the focus back on Africa. Many developed countries ignore us, they shouldn’t do that."

 

Source: Zenawi Out on His Own in Africa

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Copenhagen: Sharp divisions among African nations...

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Banaan baxii kasocday wadanka denmarki oo kusoo dhamaaday Guul.

 

Dec 19, 2009 (QOL) Waxaa taniyo shalayba socday mudaaharaad balaadhan oo ayna u kala hadhin Jaaliyaadka Ogaaadeenya ee Qaarada Yurub kaas oo ka socday caasimada Wadanka Denmark ee Copenhagen.

 

Sida aad ka dheehateen wararkii hore ee Qorahay Online ilaa shalayba waxaa si aan kala joogsi lahayn uga socday Wadanka Denmark dibad bax balaadhan oo ay soo diyaarisay Jaaliyada Ogaaadeenya ee Denmark ayna kasoo qayb galeen dhamaan Jaaliyaadka Yurub.

 

 

Maalintii shalay ahayd oo dhan waxaa ka socday madasha uu ka dhacayay shirka caalamiga ah ee cimilada aduunka isu soo bax ay kaga soo horjeedeen Jaaliyaadka Yurub ee Somaalida Ogaaadeenya dhiig yacab Malise Zenawi oo ahaa kasoo qayb galayaasha kulanka cimilada aduunka, shalay ayaa waxaa ay jaaliyaadku kasoo dareereen casar gaabadkii madasha banaanbaxa, inkasta oo ay jirtay caato & daal badan hadana ilaa xalay waxaa socday wacyi galin & is dhaafsi fikirada jaaliyaadka waxaana lagu balamay sidii subaxa hore loo iman lahaa koobta mudaaharaadka, saaka hiirtii hore ayaa waxaa ay jaaliyaaadku isa soo taageen ka soo horjeedka kulanka cimilada aduunka xarunta Belle center iyaga oo wata makarafoono cod dhaadheer, calaamadaha lagu yaqaano JWXO & sidoo kale Boodhadh waa weyn oo ay ku daabacan yahiin muuqaalada Malise, sawiro muujin haya dhibaatada baaxada leh ee haysta shacabka Somaalida Ogaaadeenya & Erayo ka dhan ah xukuumad kusheegta uu horjoogaha u yahay kaligii taliye Malis Zenawi.

 

 

Inkasta oo ay dhacaysay dhaxan & baraf aad u badan hadana waxaa ay mar horeba oo ayna wufuudu soo gaadhin madasha bilaabeen dhawaaqa & erayo ay ku muujin hayaan sida ay uga xunyihiin in dhiig yacab Malis uu kasoo qayb galo kulanka loona ogolaado in uu miisaska caalamka sidii nin hogaamiye ah uga soo qayb galo sidoo kale waxay codsadeen in cadaalada la hor keeno.

 

 

Dibadaaasha ayaa si abaabulan u daadihin hayeen habka uu usocday banaabaxu, markii loo adkaysan waayay sawaxanka & erayada ay adeegsan hayaan dibad baxayaashu ayaa waxaa kusoo uruuray saxaafadii joogtay goobta bilaabayna in ay waydiiyaan dhibaataa haysata ee wakhtigan adag dhaxanta u soo guureen.

 

 

Dhanka kale Jaaliyaadka Soomaalida Ogaaadeenya ee Wadamada Yurub ayaa waxaa ay wadeen dadaaalo ay ku gaadhsiin hayaan tacadiyada ay ka gaystaan Ogaaadeenya Ciidanka Gumaysiga Itoobiya qofkasta oo danayn haya in uu wax ka ogaado, waxaadna arkaysay xubnaha kasoo qayb galay banaanbaxa oo waraysiyo dhaadheer oo ka xog waramaya xaalada qalafsan ee uu ku sugan yahay dalka & dadka Ogaaadeenya siin haya saxaafada caalamka,

 

 

Isku soo duuboo banaabaxa ay soo abaabushay Jaaliyada Soomaalida Ogaaadeenya ee Denmark ayna ku marti qaaday guud ahaanba Jaaliyaadka Qaarada Yurub ayaa waxaa uu u muuqday mid kusoo dhamaaday guul. Maanta galabtii ayaa waxaa ay dibad baxayaashu isugu tageen xarunta Jaaliyada Ogaaadeenya ee Denmark halkaas oo ay madax kasocda Jabhada Waddaniga Xoreynta Ogaaadeenya kula hadsahay Jaalyaadka sidoo kale ay ku siiyeen dardaaran ay ku dhiiri galin hayaan sidii ay usii wadi lahayeen dadaalkooda ay ugu hiilin hayaan shacabkooda, waxaad la socotaa faallo dheer oo aan ku eegayno raadadkii banaan baxayaasha.

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Jaaliyadaha Soomaaliyeed ee ka soo jeeda Gobolka Ogaaaden oo banaanbaxyo ka dhigay magaalada Copenhagen

 

Jaaliyadaha Soomaaliyeed ee ku dhaqan dalalka Yurub ayaa maalintii shalay ahayd banaanbaxyo balaadhan ka hor dhigay madashii lagu qabanayey Shirkii cimilada aduunku oo ay ku sugnaayeen wafuud ka kala socotay in ka badan 120 dal.Dadkii Soomaaliyeed ee muadaaharaadka dhigayey ayaa la sheegay in badankood ay ka soo jeedeen Gobolka Ogaaaden isla markaana ay ku mudaaharaadayeen Ra'isul wasaaraha dalka Ethiopia Meles Zenawi oo banaanbaxayaashu ku eedeeyeen inuu tacadiyo ka dhan ah bini aadamnimada ka gaystay Gobolka Ogaaaden.

 

Dadkii banaanbaxayey ayaa dareenkooda iyo waxyaabaha ay ka cabanayeen ku soo bandhigay boodhadh ay ka muuqdeen muuqaalo iyo qoraalo ka turjumayey dhibaatada ay ka banaanbaxayeen.

 

Banaanbaxayaasha ayaa ku dhawaaqayey halkudhagyo ay ka mid ahaayeen Meles waa dambiile ee ha la geeyo maxkamada dambiyada dagaalka,shacabka gobolka Ogaaaden wuxuu xaq u leeyahay inuu helo xoriyadiisa sida dadka kaleba ay u heleen xoriyadooda iyo erayo kale oo xambaarsanaa fariimo kala gedisan.

 

Hay'adaha Xuquuqul insaanka ayaa Ra'isul wasaaraha Ethiopia horay ugu eedeeyey in ciidamadiisu ay tacadiyo ka dhan ah insaaniyada ka geystaan Gobolka Ogaaaden tacadiyadaas oo isugu jira dil, kufsi iyo ciqaab wadareed.

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Members of the Europian Ogaaaden Community demonstrate againist Meles Zenawi

 

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[Members of the Danish Ogaaaden community demonstrate outside the Bella Center, the venue of the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen Thursday Dec. 18, 2009/ Getty Images]

 

Dozens of Ogaaaden and Oromo communities in Europe demonstrated outside the UN climate change conference on December 17-18, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The group were demonstrating against Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi participating in the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Meles Zenawi is one of the worst environmental records in the history of Ethiopia and that he has no respect for fundamental human rights.

 

Waving the Ogaaaden National flag, the protestors chanted Meles belongs at the Hague for trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) instead of being honored as a spokesman for all African nations at the global conference this week. Members of the Ogaaaden community accused Meles Zenawi of committing genocide in the Ogaaaden.

 

Many African countries seek financial compensation for the continent in order to combat climate change. Recently, some African groups opposed a deal between Meles and European leaders.

 

[Members of the Danish Ogaaaden community demonstrate outside the Bella Center, the venue of the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen Thursday Dec. 18, 2009/ Getty Images]

 

The Ogaaaden people are fighting for self-determintion. Extra-judicial killings, rape, disappearances, destruction of livelihood and the displacement of thousands of Ogaaaden people are the dialy norm in Ogaaaden.

 

There is constant fighting between Ethiopian troops and ONLF forces in the Ogaaaden region. Human rights organizations accuse the Ethiopian soldiers of violating the human rights by harassing the people in the Ogaaaden region.