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• US House Appropriation Bill Requires Increased Accountability from Ethiopia as Prerequisite for Funding
• Gambella case made it into the US Appropriations Bill
• “Time to bring back Eritrea from the cold” - A reply to Ambassador Hank Cohen
• Gambella: What does “Baro” mean?

• Remembering December 13th : - AJC press Release
• “MADIBA NELSON MANDELA SHALL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER” ... G.N.U.M/A Press Release
• Power Point presentation of Akobo Anyuak Community during consultative meeting with Lou Nuer Intelectuals held in Bor on 25-27th November 2013

The Akobo intellectuals held a three days’ peace initiative from 25th - 27th November 2013 at Garden Resort Hotel in Bor, Jonglei State. ===> read more

• Inspection Panel Investigation of the Ethiopia Initial Investigation Plan
• Press Release of Gambella Nilotes United Movement/Army (GNUM/A)
• Brief history of late George Nicola and condolence message to family and the entire Anyuaks Community

• An interview with a western journalist from Addis Ababa concerning security and stability in the Gambella region
• Tikur Retold: ‘Why I am in Awe of Teddy Afro’s Music Video’

• SMNE Press Release: HRW’s New Report Confirms Land Grabs, Abuses and Forced Displacement in the Lower Omo Valley
• HRW's latest report on Ethiopia in Amharic
• Ethiopia: Pastoralists Forced off Their Land for Sugar Plantations
• An Open Letter to President Peter MacKinnon, University of Saskatchewan
• Ethiopian church leaders call for economic boycott of the TPLF junta

• An Open Letter to Salva Kiir Miyardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan

• Minnesota Anuak community reacts to new outbreak of attacks, killing, disappearance in Ethiopia and South Sudan
• AJC Claims Anyuak Refugees Face Unlawful Return to Ethiopia – The Citizen Newspaper
• Ethiopia Government Committed a Crime in South Sudan – Report in Amharic
• Anuak Justice Council (AJC) call on President Salva Kiir to provide safety to the Anuak
• Is the Republic of South Sudan (ROSS) blindfolded to expedite the alleged Anyuaks insurgents to Ethiopian government?

• Open letter and signed petition to President Obama and Rajiv Shah, USAID administrator
• UN adopts historic 'land grab' guidelines
• Report in Amharic on TPLF/EPRDF Defence Troops Retaliation in Gambella
• Pochalla Acting Commissioner must urgently act on current crisis said the Youth

• TPLF/EPRDF Retaliates Against Civilians for Killings at Saudi Star
• Akwai Agada Akwai Cham become 24th King of the Anyuak Kingdom
• Pakistani and Ethiopians Killed in Raid on Saudi Farm Compound in Gambella region - SMNE
• TPLF/EPRDF Defense Forces Brazenly Murdering Innocent People in Gambella in Broad Daylight
• “Land Grabbing” in Ethiopia - Cultural Survival Press Release

• Anyuak to crown new King next week in Pochalla, Jonglei
• Violence Surges in Gambella
• Meles' Terrorism is on in Gambella
• Ethiopia Army Shot Death an Anuak Student
• Gambella - The new influx of the TPLF/EPRDF troops, the shootings and the increased human rights abuses - Report in Amharic

• TPLF/EPRDF “Suspends” its Land Allocation Program!
• Mr. Obang Metho, Message to Ethiopian Women
• An open letter to the Jonglei Legislative Assembly - Akobo Anyuak Community
• Thank you letter to ICC - AJC & SMNE
• Ethiopian public meeting in Germany report in Amharic
• Which comes first? Germany meeting report in Amharic
• Anyuak Community are crying for help - PBS NewHour

• Gambella villagization — tidbit of truths slowly emerging in defiance of coverups & falsehoods
• Scramble for Ethiopia’s Land

• The two consecutive days of consultative meeting between Murle and Anyuak concluded
• 'They made us leave our farms'
• An excellent article on Gambella in Amharic by Azeb Hailu
• Press Release from the Anuak Justice Council Regarding HRW’s Report

• Ethiopian Regional Leader said to Admit Role in Ethnic Killings
• US Aid to Ethiopia Supports Forced Relocations for Land Grabs
• Response to Mr. Daniel Kifle entitled " Spreading in Gambella Investment, Criticism, Opportunity"?

• Ethiopia: Forced Relocations Bring Hunger, Hardship
• Canada urged to stop Ethiopia from evicting villagers
• Ethiopia forces thousands off land - Human Rights Watch
• Thousands 'forcibly relocated' in Ethiopia, says HRW report
• Ethiopia forcing thousands off land to make room for Saudi and Indian investors

• Pochalla Community in Juba Feels Disappointed by Governor of Jonglei State
• Remembering the December 13 by Ginbot 7 Radio on December 13, 2011

• Remembering that the December 13 Massacre of the Anuak is Going On Throughout Ethiopia!
• The 8th Anniversary of December 13 celebrated at Gorom Refugee Camp, South Sudan

• Anuak Mourn the Passing of Their Anuak King in Southern Sudan
• Message of condolences from Anuak Community in Kenya
• Pictures: His Majesty King Adongo Agada has arrived in Juba

• The Man Who Became King
• Anyuak King-Tribute generated by VisualSlideshow.com
• His Majesty King Adongo Agada has Passed On

• Thool ajoot - Must to listen (in Anyuak)
• Rejecting the TPLF/EPRDF’s Game-playing with Our Lives
• GIILLE JEK KØØR REM JAAY

• Mr. Obang’s statement to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights
• 11 people killed in Jonglei State as killers plan another deadly attack

• The Murle Tribe Men Are Planning to Attack Innocent Anyuak People in Pochalla County
• Electrical Blackout as US Secretary of State Clinton Addresses the African Union in Ethiopia!

• Major Loopholes in Land Lease Contracts Raise Many Questions
• The killing has been resumed in Gambella
• Open letter to the Human Rights Commission
• PAA BUNG OTEEØ WÄN E?

• Ethiopia: "5 year growth and transformation" plan is not realistic from every prospective
• Futile Attempt to Justify Land grab Deals

• Open Letter to Mr. Haile Mariam Dessalegn, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia
• Gambellians are not treated with respect at home

• Open Letter to Ethiopian Delegates Planning to Defect
• Press release on the Visit of Woyanne Regime agents to USA and Canada
• Gambella - The suffering of Ethiopian refugee around the world – VOA repor
• Resource robbery incites calls for end to Meles regime

• Biography of Mr. Caam Adhom Omot
• Ethiopians: Let us Prepare Ourselves Before the Peoples’ Revolution to Oust an Ethiopian Dictator Reaches Ethiopia (Part I)

• President Girma comes out against Meles land give away
• SMNE Mobilization Alert!

• Will Ethiopians Join in the People’s Movement for Change as it Blows from North Africa?
• Message from Gambella Ethiopian Orthodox Church – VOA Report
• Interview with Ojullu Olero and Magn Nyang by Ye Andinet Dimitz

Opiew Obang

The Southern Sudanese diaspora in Ethiopia has voted almost unanimously in favor of the South’s separation from the North. ===> read more

• Interview with Omot Nyigow and Ochan Omol (irresponsible blindfolded folks)

Meftuha Abas

My salute to all of you guys. I am here today to share my feelings on the situation of art in Gambella region. To start with, art can be simply defined as a skill governing a particular human ===> read more

• Dr. Mamo has seen it coming 6 years ago and warns the Anyuak community to be prepared for it
• Omod Okuri to fly to South Africa for tryout
• Ethiopia: Public Backlash Against Forced Evictions from Land a Certainty!
• Genocide and the unfinished debates

• December 13 Anniversary on Ginbot 7 Radio
• Gambella Region Plans Increasing Gold Production
• December 13 Anniversary on Finote Radio
• Gambellan resident, angry about the land lease proposals
• Land grab fears for Ethiopian rural communities
• Remembering December 13

• Anuak Justice Council (AJC) Press Release
• An appeal to all Ethiopian to Remember December 13, 2003 - Addis Dimts Radio
• Ethiopia: The Anuak's Forgotten Genocide

• Ethiopia: Facts and Rhetoric: Eviction of the Indigenous Peoples of Gambella from their Land by the Ethiopian government
• S. Sudan Referendum and views on land grab in Gambella – VOA Report
• Views and suggestions to VOA

• E-mail message to VOA from Gambella
• Part Two - Land Grab in Gambella - VOA Report
• Land Grab in Ethiopia by Ginbot 7 Radio
• Land Grab in Gambella - VOA Report
• Ethiopia: The Aid-Politics Trap

• Ethiopia: Anuak Must Refuse to Move to Concentrated Camps
• Ethiopia: Leasing Farmland: What Is Not Known by the Current Ethiopian government
• SMNE responses to Statements by the Karaturi's CEO in Amharic

• Ethiopia: SMNE’s Responses to the following statements by the Chief Executive Officer of the Karuturi Global Ltd
• Ethiopia: SMNE UK Conference on Land Grabs Rallies Support from Diverse Ethiopians

Ethiopian Orthodox Church has decided to remove the statue of the patriarch that has been a source of controversy since its inauguration earlier this year. ===> read more

• Akelo Ojwato Passed Away
• New Bridges of Friendship Emerge from Participation in African Policy
• An Open Letter to Gennet Zewide, Ethiopian Ambassador to India

Mr. Omot Obang Ulom have donated around 30,000 Birr in cash to support the construction of the Orthodox Church on the Jejebe Mountain. ===> read more

• A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE COLLO
• Gambella region faces risks head-on
• What message is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church sending out to the indigenous peoples of Gambella?

Farmland Grab

ASO is concerned about the unprecedented land grab and destruction of ecological environment of the Gambela region. Since 2008 foreign companies ===> read more

• New World Bank report sees growing global demand for farmland
• Looking at the Sides of the Tale of Orthodox Church in Gambella
• Ethiopia: Comment on "Assimilation and land grabbing...." the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s leadership in Gambella

Proposed Church

Orthodox Church planning committee, we are calling on you to withdraw your plan to build the proposed Church on the top of our cultural Mountain. ===> read more

• Fear expressed over India’s massive land grabs in Gambella
• Anywak Pastors and Leaders Graduates

Once again Second Anyuak Youths Conference had taken place on Saturday, June 12, 2010. The events started in the morning ===> read more

At 3:30 PM on June 6, 2010, terrified Gambella residents heard heavy gunshots at Chengkwar area. They woke up to learn the death of Gambella Town Mayor, Thok Pal Reik. ===> read more

• James Okan Adonyo Become the Oldest Graduate
• An embarrass interview with Ato Ojullu Kwot Abella by AigaForum.com

“This is not the first time I killed Anywa. I had killed one Anywa sometimes back while residing at Bathuur area but did not face justice. ===> read more

• France-Africa Summit - Support Justice to End Atrocities
• Ato Ochudho Odola’s death is not connected to election - VOA Report
• Ethiopia: Official beaten to death while a Crocodile and Snakes claim lives in Gambella

Oron Ojullu

"We are one!" - Mr. Oron Ojullu. He was preaching in the Church in IFO’s refugee camp in Kenya on August 30, 2009. ===> Audio .... must listen

One of the dancer

The Anywaa community members in Juba gathered at Lt. Gen.David Okwier’s residence in Juba yesterday to celebrate a tremendous victory that has put SPLM in power ===> click to read more

• Interview with Obang Metho and other youths by VOA

One of abducted kid

An appreciation to the parties that have ended the ordeal of these young children. Keep the good works going as you are saving lives of innocent children worldwide. ===> click to read more

Okongo Omot

Pastor Okongo Omot was preaching at Church Building Project fundraising event. The event was held in Bloomington, MN on April 17, 2010. ===>>> Audio

Agwa Alemo

I was surprised to read on Anyuak Media in the recent days that TPLF is forcing the indigenous people to sign a document that covers up its genocide === >>> Read more

• Declaration of the Horn of Africa Conference

Kwot Agole

Kwot Agole awaits uncertain future upon being discharged from the hospital and these gross human rights violations and genocide campaign, === >>> Read more

• Ethiopia: Current Situation in Gambella
• Ethiopia - “Tear Down The Wall”

Ethio-Election

Despite the recent disputed national census, Gambella population has reached about three hundred thousand === >>> Read more

• Ethiopia: Extending the Hand of Friendship
• GPLM Press Release
• The Ethiopian government’s secret land grab deals - ASO Press Release
• Interview with Dr Gregory Stanton by VOA Radio
• Land grab in Africa is not a good development – VOA Report

• Ethiopian Government can run, but can’t hide
• African land grabs: New colonialism or African apathy?
• “Colonizing” African Land For Food
• How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab

Meles Zenawi

The Ethiopian authorities have released new waves of brutality and cruelty against indigenous Anyuak people in Gambella region. === >>> Read more

• A Close Look at Gambella, Ethiopia
• Struggles against land grabs in Gambella: Interview with Nyikaw Ochalla
• Ethiopian opposition candidate stabbed to death - VOA

Anyuak in Juba

Two Ethiopian refugees murdered in Juba as security organs sing election lullabies. On separate incidence in Juba two Anyuaks were found dead === >>> Read more

• Land grab in Africa is bad policy then, bad policy now – BBC Radio report
• Human rights abuses in Ethiopia - BBC Radio report
• Land grabs in Ethiopia on BBC Radio
• GPLM/A Press Release
• Gambella, Ethiopia the new breadbasket for the Greed?

Pawpaw in Pochalla

Pochalla has experienced one of the most dilapidated structures and inefficient social service structures which are professionally negligible. === >>> Read more

Mrs and Mr. O. Kwot

The funniest wedding ever in Anyuak community. It was absolutely marvelous, breathtaking, and unforgettable masterpiece. == >>> Enjoying the SlideShow

Wes Hare is standing at tiir kiidi in Gambella

Albany City Manager Wes Hare is back from three weeks in an Ethiopian city, where he assisted in improving public sanitation === >>> Read more

Gambella Parliament

Gambella region is one of the nine ethnically based administrative regions in the current regime. === >>> Read more

Genocide Survivors are facing food's shortage. December 13, 2003 was the day when the woyane forces and highland Ethiopian settlers deliberately massacred the Anyuak in Gambella.

• Group urges UN to assess human rights conditions in Ethiopia
• Terror of the child snatchers of South Sudan
  

Wes Hare

Albany City Manager, Wes Hare, headed to Africa over the weekend to spend three weeks volunteering in a town on the west side of Ethiopia. === >>> Read more

• An Open Letter to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
• President Isaias urges Ethiopian opposition to get serious
• Gambella: Al-Amoudi’s Agricultural Apparatuses Arrive
• Report About Okwa Omot on VOA
• Okwa Omot survives political prison in Ethiopia
• New Gambella Bethel Congregation Hall Construction Started
• 13 Anyuak Children Rescued in South Sudan’s Jonglei

Aduk Okway

Aduk Obang Okway had always dreamed of graduating from college in the United States. But for many years, that dream seemed far away. === >>> Read more

• The need to build an oil refinery in Unity state
• Interview with Magn Nyang and two other individual by KFAI Radio on 10-18-09
• Ochan Adome of Mankato East bests cross country field

Dr. Koang Tutlam

Whole Nuer community is concerning about several things of Dr. Koang’s weakness. Dr. Koang has been an obstructionist in Gambella policies. === >>> Read more

• A Convey Email of Job Well Done to Anyuak Radio by Obuuy Orujulu
• Response to an Email Which was Directed to Anyuak Media
• Gambella Needs to Prepare for Sudanese Civil War, Says Analyst
• An E-mail to Anyuak Media - Gambella Official
• March to Stop Genocide and Dictatorship in Ethiopia - VOA Radio
• Anyuak Luo Identity Issues Responses From Okall

LUCO Logo

The LUCO held its second annual conference on August 15, 2009, in Sioux Falls, SD, with a sharpened theme articulating its identity and purpose: ==== >> Read More

Anyuak's Land Sold

They cut down trees to make charcoal, cooking fuel, and do not even think about what would be the consequences of losing wilderness or forest. ==== >> Read More

• Jonglei’s Pachala leader denies relocating headquarters
• Jonglei Governor condemed Akobo killing
• Pochalla Commissioner Denies County HQ Move

Rev. Gilo Gora visit to Minnesota was a success.
Rev. Gilo Gora	Rev. Gilo Gora’s mission trip of bringing good news and greetings from back home to the Anyuak and Anyuak’s friends in the United States was a success. Click here to view the pictures

Interview with Unidentified Anyuak by Addis Dimts Radio on 5-03-09
Meles is guilty	Unidentified Genocide Survivors speaks up. He assured that if you have doubt on the massacre that took place in Gambella in 2003, think again. Click to listen

• Gambella - Ginbot 7 Audio News on 5-05-09
• Gambella Current Affairs Report

Crying for Help

The Government of Southern Sudan and the United Nations had failed to protect them. They had not been given documents to identify them as refugees and ===>>>> Read More

• Ethiopia Arrests 35 Suspects in Alleged Coup Plot - VOA News
• Rights Group Worried About Key Western Allies in East Africa - VOA News
• An Open Letter to Dr. Greg Stanton, the President of Genocide Watch
  
• An Open Strong Message to All Sudanese

Looking critically and realistically into our social and political arena, and far from the unrealistic..... ===>>>> Read More

• Ethiopia Dismisses Calls for UN Investigation of Rights Abuses
• Part Two - Interview with Mr. Obang Okom on Ginbot 7 Radi
• Interview with the President of Genocide Watch, Dr Gregory Stanton on Meles' Case on Addis Dimts Radio

Genocide Watch, the international campaign to end genocide, has called on UNH Commissioner for Human Rights, Justice Navanathem, to initiate an investigation against the Meles Zenawi. Read more

• Part One - Interview with Mr. Obang Okom on Ginbot 7 Radio
• Interview with the President of Genocide Watch, Dr Gregory Stanton on Meles' Case on VOA
• Interview with Mr Obang Metho on KPFK in California
• Introduction of Interview with Mr. Obang Okom on Ginbot 7 Radio
• Interview with the President of Genocide Watch, Dr Gregory Stanton on Meles' Case on D.Welle Radio

Saturday (April 4, 2009) was the day the first Anuak Youth Conference (AYC) has taken place. Believed to be the first of its kind, ===> Read more

• VOA Amharic News regarding the call of Genocide case against Meles

Miss Ethiopia 2009

The crowning, Chuna Okok has generated a buzz on the Internet. Through out the world all Ethiopian are talking about her for about a week now none-stop, --- Read More

• Interview with Miss Ethiopia 2009, Chuna Okok by Ezega.com
• Ethiopia: Dr. Tilahun Become Hero – An Amazing Medical Story!
• Obituary:- Joshua Opal De Lual
• Dereje Feyissa was Bias and on Wrong Course – Approved

2009 Miss Ethiopia

A 22-year-old university student from Gambella won the title of Miss Ethiopia beauty competition held on Saturday. --- Read More

• The Power Struggle in the Two States, Gambella, Ethiopia and Upper Nile State, Sudan
• The South Sudan: A Captive of Itself

• Pictures: How December 13 was honored in USA on December 13, 2008

	December 13, 2008 marks the five-year anniversary of the brutal massacre of 424 --- Read More

	Many people in the world are preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The Anuak, a minority ethnic groups both in Ethiopia --- Read More

	Ethiopians who came to the meeting of the SMNE held in London, UK on November 23, 2008 have much in common --- Read More

David Ruach Tang
	A federal official in Addis Ababa, Mr. David Ruach Tang, Federal Bureau of Transportation and Communication, originally from Gambella region confirmed the report of the attacks. --- Read More

• Cuban Trained Doctors at Juba Teaching Hospital
• Obama's Opportunity to Help Africa

	Ambassador Ofato Alew Ochen was born to his father Alew Ochan and his mother Dhorgi Olok in Abobo woreda of Gambella State. --- Read More

	The USA election has come to conclusion early this month. The land slide victory of Sen. Barrack Obama over his challenger Sen. John McCain, --- Read More

Ajullu Ogala
	Ajulu Ogala long journey to final settlement could be seen odd in her own ethnic community. Many young girls of her age were forced to drop out of schools and became mothers at early age. --- Read More

Kassa Obang

One sure way was and is the education. Survivors of genocide who got opportunities to go to school are graduating from high schools and colleges out of Ethiopia today. >>> Read More

• Gambella State takes over empty refugee camps
• Gambella governor has been denied visa entry to Canada. - GPLF Press Release

On May 31, 2008, ACANA hosted a meeting in Minneapolis where Omot Obang Olum, accompanied by five other Gambella government officials >>> Read More

• Anyuaks to return to Akobo and Pochalla from Khartoum
• Illegal Immigrants Nuer clans removed from Anyuak Lands in Gambella
• Akobo Massacre Will Never Fade Away
• Sudan’s Anyuak wants GoSS to evacuate Nuer Lou from their land
• To Acquire Property Unlawfully has Consquences.

Akway Obang

For the first time in Sudan, Rev. Philip Akway Obang was elected General Secretary in Khartoum Monday 25 February. ----- Full text.

• What is wrong with Ethiopia?
• Clean the house by solving grassroots problems
• The Day the Anyuak will not forget
• Ethiopia: The hidden side of Gambella politics.
• Native of Gambella honored for eliminating members of OLF, Patriots Front

• The Day the Anyuak will not forget
• Ethiopia: The hidden side of Gambella politics.
• Native of Gambella honored for eliminating members of OLF, Patriots Front

Obang Metho has written an epic literature that would defy time and place in its appeal to humanity. This is not only a must-read essay but also a must-digest and must-practice political thought by a new Ethiopian ----- Full text.

Anyuak waiting in Malakal

The Jonglei state hopes to resettle the Anyuak community back in Akobo if a land dispute between the Nuer and Anyuak communities is resolved. ----- Full text.

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