“Ethiopian Muslim woman becomes Minister of Defense”
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister appointed on Tuesday a hijab wearing Muslim woman as the Minister of Defense for the African nation.
Ethiopian Muslim woman becomes Minister of Defense
The decision of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, to name a woman, Ayisha Mohammad, as the Minister of Defense has taken everyone, even Ethiopian citizens, aback.
Ethiopia’s new Defense Minister has majored in engineering. She is among the most famous engineers involved in building Ennahda dam, the largest dam under construction in the country.
In 2015, Ayisha was appointed as the Minister of Tourism and Culture, and in 2018 as the Construction Minister.
Following Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, submitted his resignation on March, Ethiopia’s ruling party appointed Abiy Ahmed as the new primer.
In a bid to reshuffle the cabinet, Ethiopia’s prime minister changed 16 ministries yesterday, downsized the number of ministries from 28 to 20 and handed half of the posts to women.
The Democratic Federal Republic of Ethiopia, a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa with a population of over 100 million, is the second largest African nation in terms of population.
Following Armenia, it is the second country to declare Christianity as its official religion.
Nearly two-thirds of the population are Christian.
UAE Embassy Participates in Ethiopian Parliament’s Session
Tue 16-10-2018 23:32 PM
ADDIS ABABA, 16th October, 2018 (WAM) — The UAE Embassy in Ethiopia participated, on Tuesday in the Ethiopian Parliament’s session in the presence of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed and representatives of the government.
Saud Ibrahim Al-Tunaiji, Second Secretary at the UAE Embassy and other representatives of missions and international organisations accredited to Ethiopia, also attended.
During the meeting, held at the Ethiopian Parliament, a new law on the executive apparatus of the Government was approved. The law was submitted by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
Somali man whose deportation from the UK was stopped by plane passengers raped a 16-year-old girl in London and his accomplice went on to fight for ISIS
The deportation of Yaqub Ahmed was dramatically halted by plane passengers
The man, 29, was being returned to Somalia after being involved in a gang-rape
Passengers complained he was being separated from his family in the UK
A Somalian whose deportation from Britain was dramatically halted after airline passengers staged a mutiny demanding his release can be exposed today as a convicted gang rapist who was being kicked out of the country because of his sickening crime.
Officials escorting Yaqub Ahmed on a flight from Heathrow to Turkey were forced to abandon his deportation when around a dozen holidaymakers who felt sorry for him angrily intervened shortly before take-off.
At one stage during the astonishing episode, filmed on mobile phones, one traveller complained: ‘They’re separating him from his family’, while others chanted ‘take him off the plane’.
When harassed security guards caved in and walked 29-year-old Ahmed off the Turkish Airlines flight, he was seen thanking those on board for their support as they cheered and applauded.
One person was heard declaring: ‘You’re free, man!’
Yaqub Ahmed, 29, is one of a gang of rapists who brutally assaulted a young girl. The 16-year-old victim was gang-raped in a flat in New Orleans Walk in Crouch End on
Passengers helped Ahmed get kicked off the plane as he resisted being deported by the Home Office after serving a prison sentence for gang rape
But the passengers who thought they were doing a good deed were unaware that the man they were defending had been sentenced to nine years in jail for his part in a vicious gang rape of a teenage girl – and that another member of his gang later fought for Islamic State in Syria.
Today The Mail on Sunday can reveal how Ahmed and three other youths preyed on a 16-year-old stranger after she became separated from her friends during a night out in London’s Leicester Square, in August 2007.
In a planned attack, they lured her back to a flat in Crouch End, North London, by pretending her friends were waiting for her there – then gang-raped her.
The gang, aged between 18 and 20, were caught when neighbours heard the girl’s cries for help and rang police.
All four men denied rape, despite DNA evidence. They were found guilty at Wood Green Crown Court and each jailed for nine years. Police detective Emma Bird said at the time: ‘The sentences given out by the judge reflect the seriousness of this offence.’
Ahmed, 18 at the time of the rape and living in Clerkenwell, North London, is thought to have been granted refugee status after arriving in Britain from war-torn Somalia as a boy.
Stunned plane passengers turned around to witness the commotion at the rear of the flight
He was released from prison after serving little more than four years, and lived in a halfway house in North London until recently. Because he had been jailed for such a serious crime, the Home Office ordered his deportation, which led to him being placed on the flight to Istanbul last Tuesday afternoon.
He received a temporary reprieve because of the impromptu intervention of passengers. But when video of the protest was published by MailOnline, hundreds of readers expressed their outrage.
One wrote: ‘The police should have been called and all the passengers who were interfering should have been arrested and removed from the plane.’
Another user said: ‘Looked like a plane full of snowflakes.’ And a third pointed out: ‘Now it will cost a lot more to fly the man back on a private charter! Well done silly interfering, self-seeking, do-gooding idiots!’
Ahmed is now believed to be in an immigration detention centre while officials try to place him on another flight out of the UK, but this process could take months particularly if his lawyers use his temporary reprieve as an opportunity to appeal against his deportation.
Last night, Tory backbencher Philip Hollobone, who has tabled bills to speed up the deportation of foreign criminals, said: ‘We need to deport these people and members of the public should not be allowed to obstruct the proper course of justice.
‘Officials accompanying the deportee need to react appropriately to passengers who do not know what is going on. To simply walk off in the face of passenger confusion is not good enough.’
Harry Fletcher of the Victims’ Rights Campaign said: ‘This deportation was clearly in the public interest. Sitting deportees in the general passenger area of a plane is wrong and leads to this kind of ill-informed protest.’
Ondogo Ahmed was jailed for eight years alongside Ahmed for the gang rape of a teenager
Passengers caused a commotion when they realised Ahmed was being deported – although he did not tell them he was a convicted rapist
Passengers began to record what was happening and stood up for the man, now 19, being returned to Somalia
A man pulled out his camera phone to record the deportation team at the back of the plane until so much pressure was put on security the Somalian was led off the plane
It is not the first time that planned deportations have been disrupted on planes.
In July, a Swedish student filmed herself halting the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker on a Turkish Airlines flight from Gothenburg to Istanbul.
Elin Ersson said in the video that was streamed live on Facebook: ‘A person is going to get deported to Afghanistan where there is war and he’s going to get killed.’
Then, in August, a Turkish Airlines pilot refused to take off from Heathrow after campaigners convinced him that the asylum seeker on his jet would face beheading by the Taliban if he was returned to Afghanistan.
Virgin Airlines has stopped assisting the deportation of illegal immigrants after pressure from activists.
The Home Office previously spent millions of pounds a year chartering planes to fly failed asylum seekers and foreign national offenders to their home countries, most commonly Albania, Pakistan and Nigeria. But because of the cost of the flights, it now increasingly books seats on commercial services.
Latest figures show the Home Office spent £17 million on scheduled flights and £8.6 million on charter flights to deport people in 2016-17.
The man should not be being ‘separated from his family’ according to those who put a stop to his deportation
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘All foreign nationals who are given a custodial sentence will be considered for removal. Those who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them and we have removed more than 43,000 foreign offenders since 2010.’
One of Ahmed’s co-defendants, Adnan Mohamud, was granted refugee status in Britain in 2002 having been born in Somalia, and is still thought to be in the UK. The youngest member of the gang, Ondogo Ahmed, travelled to Syria to fight for Islamic State just months after he was freed from jail. He is thought to have been killed a few weeks later.
Ethiopia – Breaking the Dam for Western Debt Slavery
Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abby Ahmed is moving quickly to open up the strategic Horn of Africa country to Western capital. But far from the move being seen as a progressive reform, many Ethiopians and observers are concerned that the new direction is leading the nation into “debt slavery”.
That is particularly poignant for Ethiopia which stands alone as the one African nation never historically colonized by foreign powers. Such proud history of independence could be soon lost.
In a long-overdue press conference earlier this week, premier Abby trumpeted with self-congratulation that the East Africa nation was to receive a $1 billion loan from the US-dominated World Bank.
Abby (42), who took office five months ago, didn’t specify what the money would be invested in. He claimed it would be used to facilitate “reforms”. Previously, the prime minister has vowed to open up state-owned companies to foreign investors. Those companies include telecoms, the national airline, electricity and water-supply utilities.
Only two days after the World Bank news, Abby then announced that the state-owned company involved in the construction of a flagship hydroelectric dam is to have its contract terminated.
He cited “delays” in operations by the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) as the reason for the abrupt sacking.
However, the official complaint of inefficiency and delays seems questionable, since the dam’s construction was, according to its former chief engineer, going forward on schedule, being 60 per cent complete, seven years from its inception. The $4 billion dam will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric scheme. Up to now, it has been self-financed by the Ethiopian state relying solely on public savings from its 100 million population.
METEC reportedly said that it was not aware of any complaint from the prime minister’s office until the contract was suddenly terminated this week. Given that the firm is state-owned and unique, the suggestion now is that the contract will be awarded to a foreign engineering company. The dam already has an Italian firm, Salini, as the leading project management. But the question is: who will be the replacement for the Ethiopian METEC firm?
This is where the timing of the new World Bank funds earmarked for Ethiopia is suspicious. Those funds are likely to go into the coffers of a foreign contractor appointed to replace METEC. But it will be the Ethiopian nation that is saddled with paying off the “loan” – a debt which up to this juncture it has not had to contend with.
Former World Bank economist Peter Koenig, who has since become an ardent critic of the institution and how it operates, says that the $1 billion figure for a developing economy like Ethiopia is “astronomical”. The country’s gross domestic product is around $80 billion.
“This will lead to debt slavery,” said Koenig. “All money from Western-controlled financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund is to be avoided at all costs. Their lending of money is simply a cynical way for Western capital to gain control over national economies.”
He added that this is no doubt why premier Abby is given glowing coverage by Western news media. “He’s a willing accomplice to Western financial takeover,” says Koenig.
By contrast, critical Ethiopian political sources say that it was for this very reason that the former leadership of the country under the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi sought to block Western capital gaining access to its development plans. Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam was up to now totally financed by national savings, while other major infrastructure projects, such as telecoms and transport, were partnered with China through soft loans and grants.
Since Abby Ahmed took over as prime minister in April this year, the former ruling coalition government of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democrat Front has undergone a radical shift in terms of moving from its previous policy of national independence to one of welcoming Western capital. Also part of that shift is that the new prime minister has embraced Washington’s Arab allies in the region, in particular Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
This geopolitical shift is happening without a national consensus or even debate, and is causing sharp ethnic tensions in widespread parts of Ethiopia, with dozens of deaths from violent clashes in recent weeks.
Western media typically report that Premier Ahmed is meeting resistance to his supposed “liberal reforms”. But there are also suspicions that the violence has been instigated by the new ruling faction dominated by the PM’s Oromo ethnic group, as a way to justify security crackdowns and to install regional administrations amenable to the political objectives of the central authorities in the capital Addis Ababa under the prime minister’s control.
A sinister sign of this shift-by-stealth came with the shocking assassination on July 26 of the chief engineer responsible for overseeing the Grand Renaissance Dam. Simegnew Bekele (53) was shot dead with a bullet wound to his head, apparently while sitting in his parked car in Addis. There are strong indications that his murder was a political assassination. Engineer Bekele was a consummate professional who was widely revered for his dedication to the dam. He was also committed to the original vision of the project being completed without foreign investment. Bekele was appointed by the former PM Meles Zenawi in 2011 to see the project through to completion.
The dam has long been protested by Egypt, which fears that it may reduce the flow of water in the Blue Nile that is critical for its agriculture. For years, Egypt has been bickering with Ethiopia about the dam.
In June, Ethiopia’s Abby made his first foreign trip to Cairo where he was warmly received by President Abdel Fattah el Sisi. There was a remarkable change of position, with the Ethiopian leader giving assurances that the dam would be delayed to suit Egypt’s interests. Ethiopian sources noted how the PM recited a Muslim prayer to the Egyptian leader by way of giving assurance.
For a project that was viewed by many Ethiopians as a source of immense national pride, the seeming capitulation to Egyptian concerns caused much consternation. The project manager Simegnew Bekele in particular was said to be perplexed by the abrupt interference in his technical authority, according to sources.
The assassination of Bekele can therefore be plausibly seen as the elimination of a difficult political obstacle to those who want to see the dam delayed or its strategic financing altered.
On the morning that the engineer was killed, Prime Minister Abby flew out of Addis for a week-long trip to the US. Social media posts from the delegation on board the Ethiopian Airlines plane showed people celebrating. News of the engineer’s death would have no doubt been known by that time. Incongruously, it was later said the celebrations were for a birthday party for somebody among the premier’s delegation to the US.
The shocking murder of a beloved national figure was compounded with the seeming insensitivity of the prime minister. He ignored a public outcry in Ethiopia for him to return immediately from the US to condole with the nation on the barbaric slaying of chief engineer Bekele. The prime minister did not even return for the funeral which was held in Addis on July 29 in what was a day of national mourning.
Bizarrely, Abby Ahmed has since shown little concern about apprehending the perpetrators of the murder. His public comments are markedly rambling and vague. The Addis police chiefs appointed by the PM also seem grossly incompetent and indifferent.
During his week-long tour of the US, Abby was greeted by Vice President Mike Pence and high officials belonging to the World Bank and IMF, including Christine Lagarde.
The latest announcement of a $1 billion loan from the World Bank also preceded the visit to Addis Ababa this week by the Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry and his country’s head of intelligence Abbas Kamel. The visit was openly reported as being for the purpose of talks specifically about the dam project. It was the next day that premier Abby announced that the contract for the state-owned Ethiopian firm involved in the dam’s construction was to be terminated.
What Ethiopian political sources say is that the country is undergoing a long-held plan for a geopolitical takeover. The nation, which was seen up to now as an African role model for independent development, is being shifted from its erstwhile independence and partnership with China to become a client of Western capital and Washington’s regional allies among the Arab states.
The country is being subjected to a coup in all but name. Abby Ahmed who has a background in military intelligence is suspected of being a CIA asset, having worked secretly in the past with Eritrea and Ethiopian dissident groups such as the Oromo Liberation Front based in the Eritrean capital, Asmara.
His stellar rise to power was not through election but rather through opaque parliamentary maneuvering. Having gained power, Abby has rapidly directed the country towards serving the strategic interests of Washington and Arab clients. He and his new ruling faction are opening the dam gates for Western financial subjugation – euphemistically hailed as “reforms” in the Western news media.
By Dr. Jeff Mirus (bio – articles – email) | Mar 22, 2018
I have long been convinced that those who seek political office are, as a general rule, morally unfit to rule. We could make an example of almost any historical regime to illustrate this thesis, for nearly every ruling group, whatever good it may have done, has deliberately led (not followed) those under its control and influence in ignoring one moral principle or another in pursuit of its own self-interest.
But we do not need to look to history. How else, except by the application of this general rule, can we explain why nearly every government in the world—and certainly every government in the West—spends so much time and energy undermining the very virtues which are required for a healthy social order? And at the purely theoretical level, is it not perfectly logical to assume that those who aspire to controlling others are most often uninterested in a wholesome participation in what we might call life on the ground?
If it were otherwise, they would be too busy for politics.
A new proof
Our political and social leaders, whatever their differences, are chosen from the pool of those who seek political and social advancement. This, my friends, is at best a tainted pool. Not only do the vast majority of them today consistently and deliberately undermine the natural law, but they work ceaselessly to export this contempt for sound moral values wherever wealth has enabled them to gain influence. In our time we have another monumental example: It was not enough that the European nations conspired to take political control of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; no, even in giving up overt political control, the West insists on taking social, economic and above all moral control of all who inhabit that vast continent.
Africa, in other words, is the new proof of my depressing thesis, and of an even older axiom: Beware of political and social leaders bearing gifts. Every one of them is a Trojan Horse. Every one of them is equipped not only with strings but reins. In Africa this takes the form of a relentless push by Western governments and foundations to destroy the personal integrity and family stability which a culture must possess if it is ever to be truly independent of first world nations that “just want to help.”
Thus the West is transforming Africa with treacherous gifts—with “aid” programs and packages designed to limit the population, lure young people and women to seek personal independence through sexual license, accept abortion as liberation, normalize sexual perversion, and remain dependent on foreign aid. All of this, of course, could have been predicted as just another variation of my central thesis. But Catholic readers, at least, know from the news that it is true. If they have any doubt, they should consult a brave new book by Obianuju Ekeocha entitled Target Africa.
My Note:
Obianuju Ekeocha
A remarkable Nigerian woman, Obianuju Ekeocha holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Nigeria and a Masters in Biomedical Science from the University of East London. She works in Canterbury, England as a Specialist Biomedical Scientist. And perhaps most important of all, she is the founder of Culture of Life Africa, an organization defending the dignity of human life through research, information and education. According to the blurb on her book jacket, she has spoken on life and women’s issues in seventeen countries and at the United Nations.
By birth, nationality, upbringing, education and sheer ability, Ekeocha is the ideal foil for everything from the United States government to the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, which pours millions into Africa each year in a colossal effort to solve African problems by destroying Africans. In fact, a few years ago Ekeocha wrote an open letter to Melinda Gates, essentially telling her that Africans don’t need her stinkin’ money.
But the sum total of evil actors dwarfs the Gates Foundation. Ekeocha’s new book, just out from Ignatius Press with a foreword by Robert P. George, is subtitled “Ideological neocolonialism in the twenty-first century”. Following a jam-packed introduction providing the necessary background, Ekeocha offers compelling chapters on the effort to control Africa through population restrictions, the hypersexualization of youth, radical feminism, abortion rights, and the normalization of homosexuality. The final three chapters explain what it means to be a modern-day colonial master, explore the problem of “aid addiction”, and offer suggestions for decolonization. (Oh, and that remarkable letter to Gates is in the appendix.)
Compelling
Target Africa is absolutely compelling. It is a deeply-felt personal and even emotional witness coupled with more than enough data to prove the case, and all from a source whom the reader cannot help but admire.
“Africans by and large believe that sex is sacred,” Ekeocha writes,
that human life is precious from womb to tomb, that children are blessings, that motherhood is desirable, and that marriage between man and woman is life-generating. These are the basic family values that our parents and grandparents transmitted to us. They are embedded in our customs, enshrined in our laws, and even encoded in our native languages. To take them away from us amounts to invasion, occupation, annexation, and colonization of our people.
Returning to the thesis with which I began, I should point out that one of the book’s pervasive themes is the way in which African officials and bureaucrats line up to receive Western aid packages in return for implementing the purpose of these packages, which is to undermine their own people. What did I say about those who are interested in controlling the lives of others?
Before ever I wrote this review, there was Qoholeth the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem, as quoted in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Was he thinking of social engineers when he said there was nothing new under the sun? Perhaps I am vain to think my own little theory is original. But I can say this: For those who seek to direct others without first surrendering themselves to God, everything under that all-revealing sun is vanity.
