Fekadu Jaleta

Bofa beekee miilla dhowwate

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@TsedaleLemma There is no such thing called Oromo media

[Asmelash(aka Ash) @semaengy]

The second phase of the launching of (CORE) Program event— a multi-year Nutrition-Centric HDP Nexus initiative strengthening systems, livelihoods, and resilience is happening in Moyale Woreda.

#CORELaunch2025 #FromCrisisToResilience #NutritionCentric #HDPNexus #SOSCVE #LuxAid

[Asmelash(aka Ash) @semaengy]

Today in Woliata Sodo, SOS CVE in partnership with SOS Villages d'Enfats Monde & the local Gov launch ARISE project, a new chapter in building resilience, strengthening livelihoods & advancing food & nutrition security for vulnerable communities
# Geze Gofa # Food system

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@BYDCompany @TIME The limited availability of its spare parts will highly challenge BYD's market in Ethiopia. At its current condition, the cost of one time maintenance is about 50% its total purchase.

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@combankethiopia ግሽበቱ ስንት ትሪሊዮን እንደሆነም ይነገረና!

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@Amharafirst88 There is no such thing called 'political Oromummaa.' Oromummaa is #Oromo identity, period – just like 'አማራነት' for the so-called #Amharas or 'ትግራዋይነት' for #Tigrayans. If you can dismantle the last two things, then we can talk about Oromummaa! Long live #Oromummaa!

[Tsedale Lemma @TsedaleLemma]

Sunday thoughts:

On the inverse reality, revisionism and warped logic of #IsaiasAfwerki’s Independence Day speech

Anyone who carefully listened to President Isaias Afwerki’s Independence Day speech on Saturday would have found more than enough material for a case study in inverse reality, revisionism, and warped logic.

Here are some of the key points that stood out for me.

Inverse reality

His claims of foreign interference in the Horn of Africa is a brazen attempt to rewrite the very political history he helped shape through a violent interference into every single country in the Horn of Africa over the past 34 years.

His argument becomes especially twisted when he describes recent wars in Ethiopia “declared against the Ethiopian people under the rubric of Prosperity (their new surrogate).”

This is a stunning inversion of reality.

It was his own military that crossed into Ethiopia and joined its forces in a genocidal campaign against the people of Tigray, a campaign documented in gruesome detail by every international human rights organisation, UN experts, and the media, to list the few. If there were any “surrogate” involved in waging war against the people of Ethiopia, Eritrean forces were at the centre of it and Isaias wasn’t a bystander, he was a lead actor.

You can change the course of history through shifting allegiances, but you can’t rewrite it.

Revisionism

His claim that the “euphoria and optimism” generated by Ethiopia’s political change seven years ago remains “fresh in our memories” rings hollow when, from the outset, that so-called “reform” was aborted by the dismantling of a repressive yet functional political system, replaced by one that is both centralised and dysfunctional. It was a shift Isaias not only supported but actively helped engineer.

“Ethnic federalism”, as he scorns it and incessantly attacks it, is not the source of Ethiopia’s current or past instability, but a fragile solution to the country’s deep historical inequalities. For all its flaws, it had delivered Ethiopia its longest period of relative stability.

But the seven years since it began to unravel revealed that it was the backroom alliance involving Isaias himself and built on resentment of the protectorates the federal system that helped destroy Ethiopia.

Again, you can change the course of history through shifting allegiances, but you can’t rewrite it.

Warped logic

But what I found most upsetting is how, as a President, Isaias resurrected the term “ideology of Oromummaa”, and used it to reinforce a claim invented by Ethiopia’s reactionary right painting Oromo identity as a violent political ideology. Isaias’s way of distancing himself from the backlash of having to say it was “it does not represent the Oromo people.” But this doesn’t conceal the warped logic of inserting it in his speech in the first place.

Oromummaa is no more a political ideology than being Eritrean is. It is simply what it means to be Oromo. You can’t invoke being Eritrean as a neutral state of identity while, in the same breath, claim that being Oromo, or Oromummaa, is a violent political ideology that doesn’t represent the Oromo.

But beyond the basic argument of logical fallacy one can raise about the abuse of this term, what’s interesting is the fact that Isaias used the rhetoric the same way as those scapegoating it to shield themselves from their roles in turning Ethiopia become an open field of endless violence.

By sprinkling this term into his critique of Abiy, Isaias is not only peddling a toxic narrative targeting the Oromo identity as criminal, he is distancing himself from the wartime ally he has been in the crimes that dismantled the Ethiopian federation as we know it.

In so doing, he just joined the warped logic of “Oromummaa did it”.

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@combankethiopia ከተለያዩ የዓለማቀፍ ገበያዎች ዕቃ መግዛት አይቻልም በእናንተ አገልግሎት አታካብዱ

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@BlenAmhara What is your evidence?

[Tsedale Lemma @TsedaleLemma]

❗️"እናቴ የደም ዕምባ እያለቀሰች፣ ወንድሜ ተረሽኖ ከገደል አፋፍ ላይ እየተገፈተረ፣ ክብሯን የጠበቀች እህቴ በባለጌዎች እየተደፈረች በዚ ሽልማት ልደሰት አልችልም። የእናቴ እንባ ሲታበስ፣ ሃገሬ ወደ ቀደመ ክብሯ ስትመለስ እደርስበታለሁ::" ኢሳያስ

[The Lead CNN @TheLeadCNN]

Heartbreaking accounts from victims reveal how rape is used as a weapon of war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia @nimaelbagir reports

[MahletFasil @MahletFasil]

በህይወት ከተረፍኩ ህክምና የከለከልኝን ጠቅላይ አቃቤ ህግ ጌዲዩን ጢሞቲዩስ በህግ ካሳ አስከፍለዋልሁ" በቀለ ገርባ በችሎት የተናገረው"መርዘኛ ማፍያ ግሩፕ የችሎት ትእዛዝ የማያከብር አለ ለዛ ነው እየታገልን ያለነው

[Zelealem Abate @Ze_Alem]

ዛሬ የዩክሬን ዕንቁላል ዜና የገረማችሁ እስኪ @amanyehun ከዓመት በፊት የተናገረውን ስሙና ይበልጥ ይቆጫችሁ።

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

📍Worrisome new data—new B117 variant is not only more infectious, it’s potentially more infectious in children 0-9 (+24%) and 10-19 (+14%), and less among 60-79, compared to common strains. More sobering—the R estimate is much higher.

THREAD🧵 #COVID19 https://t.co/2tXzvy4QpU

[Addis Zeybe - አዲስ ዘይቤ @AddisZeybe]

The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of #Ethiopia has revoked the work permit of @wdavison10, who has been working as a Senior Analyst at @CrisisGroup. Addis Zeybe has confirmed that the Ministry has sent a copy of the letter of revocation to @Fagethiopia, @EthioInvestment...

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@AndargZe @abdiif2 @Orborbar Mr Andarge can't even understand Gada and Gada democracy with such toxic mind and better get treated first. We know who doesn't feel secured when Gada is discussed.

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@abdiif2 @AndargZe @Orborbar ዴሞክራሲና አርስቶክራሲን መለየት ቢችሉ?

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

The beauty of a holiday is its eve. #Irreechaa2018 #Oromo #Ethiopia

[Fekadu Jaleta @FJaleta]

@FalmiiDoqqosaa @TakeleUma Isaantu sana gochaa jira jechuuf maaltu nudhorka?