United States Policy on Ogaden
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:57 am
I hear the new Obama administration will make Ogaden as Top Priority for US Africa policy making 
In the last few years US legislators and administration had shown interest in Ogaden region.
The United States has doubled its humanitarian aid to the troubled Ogaden region (from $19 million to about $45 million in 2008). ..Several U.S. lawmakers and officials have visited the region and expressed their concern over the humanitarian deterioration and abuse committed by the Ethiopian military and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, touched down in Addis to discuss matters relating to the insurgency-wracked Ogaden region. And recently in the G20 President Obama scolded Ethiopia's dictator Meles Zenawi during a brief one-to-one encounter at the G20 meeting in London on April 2. Obama reportedly told Meles that the human rights condition in Ethiopia is deplorable and unacceptable...That is as strong as it can get. Meles was bitch slapped
In addition the U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Henrietta Fore stated "
"our shared concern to be sure we are looking out for the food security of the people in Ogaden and the work of our many partners who are working in the Ogaden,"...
And since the region is blessed with enormous energy deposits, China has gradually shown interest and given the strong rivalry between the US and China in securing energy, the Ogaden region will recieve more covereage in the near future..The U.S. economy, the most dynamic in the industrialized world, and the Chinese economy, the world's fastest growing, together account for one-third of global energy consumption. The two countries will need more oil to fuel their economic growth in the future..and both are competing in securing oil and gas...in a drive to secure future supplies of those two fuels, China’s government has signed energy deals or prospective deals worth billions of dollars with a number of countries, including Ethiopia to gain access to the Ogaden region, Iran and Sudan.China tries to diversify its oil supplies away from the Persian Gulf region, to third world countries..the energy projects that China has initiated so far, include concessions to explore for and develop oil fields in third world nations with particualar interest in the horn...this is increasingly worrying the United States..
In the last few years US legislators and administration had shown interest in Ogaden region.
The United States has doubled its humanitarian aid to the troubled Ogaden region (from $19 million to about $45 million in 2008). ..Several U.S. lawmakers and officials have visited the region and expressed their concern over the humanitarian deterioration and abuse committed by the Ethiopian military and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, touched down in Addis to discuss matters relating to the insurgency-wracked Ogaden region. And recently in the G20 President Obama scolded Ethiopia's dictator Meles Zenawi during a brief one-to-one encounter at the G20 meeting in London on April 2. Obama reportedly told Meles that the human rights condition in Ethiopia is deplorable and unacceptable...That is as strong as it can get. Meles was bitch slapped
In addition the U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Henrietta Fore stated "
"our shared concern to be sure we are looking out for the food security of the people in Ogaden and the work of our many partners who are working in the Ogaden,"...
And since the region is blessed with enormous energy deposits, China has gradually shown interest and given the strong rivalry between the US and China in securing energy, the Ogaden region will recieve more covereage in the near future..The U.S. economy, the most dynamic in the industrialized world, and the Chinese economy, the world's fastest growing, together account for one-third of global energy consumption. The two countries will need more oil to fuel their economic growth in the future..and both are competing in securing oil and gas...in a drive to secure future supplies of those two fuels, China’s government has signed energy deals or prospective deals worth billions of dollars with a number of countries, including Ethiopia to gain access to the Ogaden region, Iran and Sudan.China tries to diversify its oil supplies away from the Persian Gulf region, to third world countries..the energy projects that China has initiated so far, include concessions to explore for and develop oil fields in third world nations with particualar interest in the horn...this is increasingly worrying the United States..
Lets hope Obama does his job properly 