Deadly Ogaden floods soak Jigjiga

The residents said the extreme flooding caused the fafen river to burst its banks after midnight (2:00 AM) while most of the people were quietly in their sleeping.

It was no immediately possible to learn what the Ethiopian established administration in Ogaden could do to ensure timely relief activities for the victims; including a provision of proper medical care, food and shelter for the affected. Ethiopian Appointed Regional President Abdi Mohamoud Omar could not be contacted for immediate comment.

However, the disaster has likely left at least a thousand people displaced , who have already suffered due to the droughts brought by the El Nino climate phenomenon and have no hope of receiving emergency aid for being rebellious in terms of Ethiopian highlanders control of the land.

The United States and the European Union, mainly the United Kingdom have so long ignored the plights of the 7-8 million Somalis in the Ogaden region, whom their oil and gas-rich territory has approached by Chinese energy corporation of POLY-GCL in recent months.

The Ethiopian regime has been battling forces known as Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) backed by  the local population seeking to gain full Independence from Addis Ababa since 1984  in a conflict that has cost the lives of 100s of Thousands and forced nearly a million to flee from their territory of the Ogaden.

The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front or TPLF-led regime has blocked the International Red Cross and other aid agencies from carrying out relief work in the occupied territory of the Ogaden since Abole oil field raid On April 24, 2007.

The Western media in Addis Ababa has been forced to compromise on the Ogaden issue after two Swedish journalists were captured by Ethiopian troops in the Ogaden during their attempt to investigate the relationship between energy companies and the human rights violations in the occupied Somali land of the Ogaden.