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20 May 2013 Sidama Community UK is to Honour its Fallen Heroes! Read More...

20 May 2013 Privileged to be the son of proud Sidama Nation & for diligently Championing its Just Cause with the True Sidamas in the Faces of Utter Lies and Temporarily Obfuscation! Read More...

04 May 2013 History Repeats Itself! - The Case of Sidama nation (North East Africa-South Ethiopia) [PDF] Read More...

04 May 2013 Amate Sokka (Wiinamu Sokka Baalunkura!) [PDF] Read More...

04 May 2013 Poem, "Hypocritically Instigated Simulations!" [PDF] Read More...

04 May 2013 Poem, "Ollonkke Qerxeemmo!!" [PDF] Read More...

16 Apr 2013 The Sidama Liberation Movement (SLM) Withdraws from the Ethiopian Local Elections amid Widespread Rights Abuses! Read More...

19 Mar 2013 Heroes and Villains in Sidama and among Sidama Diaspora! Read More...

12 Feb 2013 Ethiopia's Upcoming Local Elections Unlikely to be Free and Fair! Read More...

04 Feb 2013 Ethiopia's upcoming fake local election:- Does it do any good for Sidamas' 'Constitutional' Quest for Regional Self Determination? Read More...

24 Aug 2012 The torture of Sidama Civilians in Malga intensifies while TPLF/EPRDF intensifies the imposition of Mourning for late PM on entire Ethiopians! Read More...

24 Aug 2012 This must be the New Chapter, TPLF/EPRDF's Regime must Stop Terrorizing Sidamas! [Press Release] Read More...

24 Aug 2012 Sidama Speak – Effective Alliance Now to break TPLF Yoke: Sidama people are to speed up the fight for Freedom and Independence from the TPLF/EPRDF government through effective alliance with its oppressed neighbors. Read More...

21 Aug 2012 Urgent Message from United Sidama Parties for Justice and Freedom (USPJF) to all Sidamas both at home and abroad. Read More...

20 Aug 2012 Imprisonment of Sidama Civilians unabated, Kassa Adisso and Boshola, SLM's veterans, some of latest victims! Read More...

20 Aug 2012 TPLF/EPRDF's Authorities Relentlessly Terrorize Sidama Civilians! Read More...

19 Aug 2012 [in Amharic] Personal testimony of a Sidama person on Regional President Shiferaw Shugute's role in abusing Sidama peoples' fundamental rights. Read More...

18 Aug 2012 Sidama Prisoners of Conscience by TPLF/EPRDF's regime. Read More...

18 Aug 2012 The Latest waves of Sidama Civilians Imprisonments by TPLF/EPRDF's Regional Cadres assigned by Shiferaw Shuguxe. Read More...

17 Aug 2012 'Abate Kimo' another victim today of TPLF's cadres' criminal acts Read More...

17 Aug 2012 TPLF/EPRDF's cadres list 174 Sidama civilians for imprisonment; dozens already detained yesterday & today! Read More...

15 Aug 2012 The Glorious Celebration of Sidama's New Year 'Fichche' in Sidamaland!! Read More...

14 Aug 2012 USPFJ Wishes the Best of 'Fichche' to all Sidamas! Read More...

13 Aug 2012 Sidamas Prepare to Celebrate their New Year 'Fichche' Defying Imprisonments, Intimidation and Harassments! Read More...

10 Aug 2012 Sidamas unanimously denounce TPLF/EPRDF's deceit, demanding unconditional release of arrested Sidamas & warn the Cadres not to arrest others any longer!! Read More...

07 Aug 2012 Does Imprisonment of Sidamas Stop Them from Demanding Their Rightful Rights to Regional Self Administration? Read More...

07 Aug 2012 South Ethiopia's Regional EPRDF Ruler Said To Have Demanded Cadres to Undergo Self-Criticism. Read More...

05 Aug 2012 The Dangers of Traitors from Within. Read More...

05 Aug 2012 South Ethiopia's regional puppet still Conspires with TPLF/EPRDF to abort Six million Sidamas' Quest for Regional Self Administration! Read More...

05 Aug 2012 Regional Self Administration is a Basic Right of Any People. Read More...

02 Aug 2012 Sidama Elders' Deliberation vs Paranoia of Regional Renegade's Sidama Zone Cabinet Meeting. Read More...

01 Aug 2012 Meles's regime Persistently Violates Sidama People's Fundamental Rights! Press Release by USPFJ Read More...

01 Aug 2012 Sidama people are being targeted for claiming their constitutional rights! Read More...

28 July 2012 Tribute to Nigussie Roda Utala. Read More...

Meles’s Cadre Masks Sidama’s Regional Quest in Development Mantra. 31 July 2012. Read More...

Why Meles's regimes Cadres are Calling Sidamas for 31st July 2012's Meeting? 30 July 2012. Read More...

Meles’s Regional Agents’ Home Works on aborting the Regional Quest of Sidamas by Appointing 6 persons Disappointing 6 Million. 28 July 2012. Read More...

Meles's Federal Forces terrorize Sidama Civilians arresting about 200 in Cirre District; an unconfirmed Death reported in Wondogenet district's Bashsha farmer’s association. 26 July 2012. Read More...

Returning Captured Weapons in a Demonstration of the Sidama peoples’ Bravery and Civility! 25 July 2012. Read More...

'Malga' Turned into War Zone while Sidamas Heroically Repulse Regime's Assassins! 24 July 2012. Read More...

Another Meles Zenawi's Agent 'Tsegaye Berhe' Sent to Terrorize Sidama People is in Hawassa. 23 July 2012. Read More...

Sidama Districts Return Dehiden’s Membership Cards; Source Suspects Bereket’s Presence in Hawassa. 21 July 2012. Read More...

Up date on a Repressive Regime Orchestrated Crisis in Sidama. 20 July 2012. Read More...

Regional Cadres Attempt Personally to Persuade Sidama People in Dale District! 19 July 2012. Read More...

Meles’s Cadres and Police Forces Brutalizing Sidama Civilians in Dale and Malga Districts. 18 July 2012. Read More...

Meles Zenawi's Authorities are still Terrorizing Sidama Civilians while his health Deteriorates!. 17 July 2012. Read More...

Shiferaw Orders Sidama not to Celebrate their New Year (Fichchee) in their Capital Hawassa. 13 July 2012. Read More...

Abay Tsehaye, Bereket Simeon and H/Maraim Desalegn Renew their Orders & Advise Shiferaw to Kill up to 6000 Sidama Civilians if they Reject. 12 July 2012. Read More...

Development on Meles on Sidama Crisis. 10 July 2012. Read More...

Sidama People Press ahead with Demand for Regional Self Administration. 29 June 2012. Read More...

Ethiopian Regime's Manfesto of Uprooting Sidama from their City. 23 June 2012. Read More...

Sidama University Students Flier [language: Amharic]. 22 June 2012. Read More...

Plot Against Sidama People [language: Amharic]. 22 June 2012. Read More...

Call to the Ethiopian Regime to unconditionally stop Systematic and Continuous Violation of the Constitutional rights of the Sidama People. 10 June 2012. Read More...

Commemorating the 10th Anniversary and the Establishment of USPFJ. 24 May 2012. Read More...

Arbitrary Arrests and Detentions of Civil Servants in Sidama. 29 Jan 2012. Read More...

Sidama Land and its Capital City are being put for resale. 19 December 2011. Read More...

Fichchee: the Original Sidama New Year begins. 24 August 2011. Read More...

Carnage at the Farmers Village in Borricha-Erba District! 23 August 2011. Read More...

Remembering the 9th Anniversary of the Looqe massacre of the Sidama by Abyssinian Army. 23 May 2011. Read More...

List of Main Culprits of the Looqee Massacre, 23 May 2010. Read More...

Tyrannized Sidamas Commemorate the Looqee Genocide, Rejecting the Pseudo-Elections in Ethiopia, 23 May 2010. Read More...

Forthcoming electoral parody in Abyssinia, and the massacre that took place at Looqee eight years prior; this has not been covered by worldwide media, 14 May 2010. Read More...

Press Releases : Chairperson of Sidama Liberation front surrenders. Sidama's aspirations will not be hindered. September 2009. Read More...

Continued human tragedy in Sidama. State sponsored terrorism of Meles Zenawi's regime becomes unbearable. 25 July 2009 Read More...

Sidama:- Update on ongoing government instigated Crisis Abuses, June 10, 2009 Read More...

Seventh Year on:- Sidama’s Loqee Massacre is Commemorated by the Sidamas and friends of the nation while another tragedy unfolding, May 24, 2009 Read More...

ONLF, FIO, SNLO and FIDO- Press Release, October 30, 2008, London, United Kingdom Read More...

A Spectrum of War between Eritrea and Abyssinia (Pseudo-´Ethiopia´)  Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis October 26, 2006  Read More...

Sidama Nation's New Year 'Fichchee' Celebration Underway in occupied Sidama-land of South Ethiopia September 28, 2008- by Kambata Xoola, Read More

Abyssinian Brutally Racist Meles's Regime is Committing Cultural Genocide on Sidama Nation! By Kambata Xoola, September 22, 2008, Read More

International Humanitarian Corridor in Ogaden Now! Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, September 20, 2008, Read More

Tadesse Washoe, one of the Sidama prisoners of Conscious said to have fled Ethiopia or made to disappear? September 6, 2008, By Rabiisa Wanjee (from Sidama-land) Read More

Ethiopia's 2010 election the root cause of the Split inside the OLF  By Web Admin (Ayyaantuu Oromiyaa Portal) 8/9/2008 1:34 AM
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The Kushitic Civilization of North East Africa: An Overview, By Side Goodo September 7, 2008, Read More

Oromia: Successful Takeover of the OLF  By Getachew Humnara |August 2, 2008, Source- Ayyantuu Oromiyaa Portal, Read More

Abyssinian Regime: the Realm of Human Degradation and Bestiality, By Kambata Xoola, July 31, 2008 Read More

Total Demolition of ´Ethiopia´ with the Sidamas Engaged in the Path for Independence, By Kambata Xoola, July 8, 2008, Read More

Ethiopia: Army Commits Executions, Torture, and Rape in Ogaden; Donors Should Act to Stop Crimes Against Humanity (HRW Report June 12, 2008, Nairobi Kenya) Read More

Criminal ´Ethiopia´, Charged With Crimes Against the Mankind, Cannot Be Left to Exist

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, June 12, 2008 Read More

SomaliaWhat Options for Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, ARS and all the rest?

Famine-hit Ethiopia ups army budget. Aljazira English Programme, June 11, 2008, Read More

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, June 07, 2008, Read More

Somaliland Crumbling: Africa's most Appalling Shame About to End, Dr Shamsaddin Megalommatis, June 07, 2008, Read More

BBC Lies on Famine: the Only Rain in 'Ethiopia' is the Rain of the Cut Heads. Dr Shamsaddin Megalommatis, June 06, 2008,
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Africa's Heart beats in Ogaden. By Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, June 4, 2008, Read More

A Systematic attempt to exterminate the Sidama nation by Abyssinian Regime is materialising! By Kambata Xoola, June 4, 2008, Read More

Neo-Nazi Criminals Allowed to Enter the US, due to Jendayi Frazer Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, June 2, 2008, Read More

Sidama: Looqee Massacre Six Years on, the Nation' all round sufferings worsening! By Kambata Xoola, May 24 2008, Read More

State Terrorism: the ´Ethiopian´ Courts of Justice, Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis May 14, 2008
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The Appalling 'Ethiopian' Tyranny as lived in Occupied Sidama Land, April 11 2008, By Professor S. Megalomattis, Read More

Somalia government teeters on collapse. By Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times | March 29, 2008
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Sidama Leader Xola rejects Kinijit as Democracy’s Worst Enemy in Africa, August 29, 2007, BY Professor S. Megalomattis, (Interview Part IV) Read More

SNLO Leader Kambata Xoola demands Freedom for Abyssinia’s Tyrannized Sidamas, (Interview part III, by Professor S. Megalomattis), August 2007,
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Sidama Leader Kambata Xoola lambastes the Cruel Amhara / Tigray Tyrants, (Interview by Professor S. Magalomattis) Part II, August 2007, Read more

Ethiopian Sidamas Reject Amhara / Tigray Abyssinian Tyranny, By Kambata Xoola, August 26, 2007, (Interview by Professor S. Magalomattis, Part I), Read More

SOMALIA: Proxy War. Read more

Fragile peace fuels Somalia fears. Read more

INEXCUSABLE MISTAKE & INESCAPABLE DISASTER FOR REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY: the case of Ethio-Somalia. December 26, 2006. Read more

Ethiopia: The Country under Siege. December 26, 2006. Read more

Meles Zenawi and Mengistu Haile-Mariam share one common feature: ruthlessness. November 9, 2006. Read more

‘Fichchee’. Sidama New Year, Celebrated in Kenya. October 25, 2006. Read more

Meles’s Cadres are doubling the suffering of Sidamas. October 21, 2006. Read more

SLF's empty house continues to remain empty! Read more

News in Amaharic. Read more

4th front in the war against terror? - from ethiomedia.com - 23rd August 2006. Read more

Press Release - 15th August 2006. Read more

Caught-Up in the Middle of the Fire: August 14, 2006. Read more

Country without Leaders, But with People of Great Characters! August 14, 2006. Read more

EPRDF reign of terror. July 28, 2006. Read more

Yet worst to unfold. July 27, 2006. Read more

Abuses of Constitutional Rights of the Sidama people. April 14, 2006. Read more

Meles' regime u-turn kills Sidamas' dream. April 9, 2006. Read more

Demonstration in Pretoria. March 31, 2006. Read more

New president authorised to bribe, intimidate and suppress. March 31, 2006. Read more

Letter to HE Meles Zenawi from Sidama Intellectuals and Concerned Sidamas. March 29, 2006. Read more

Sidama Crisis Update. March 24, 2006. Read more

More Death, Arrest and Torture. March 21, 2006. Read more

The following items were received this week. March 16, 2006:-
1. Fact-sheet about the situation in Sidama.
2. Military Zone - Two students Shot Dead.
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Meles Zenawa is building military in Sidama. 13 March 2006. Read more

Once again Under Various Forms of Pressures. 7 March 2006. Read more

Obfuscating the Issues on Sidama’s Quest for Regional Autonomy. 21 February 2006. Read more

An unexpected Thunder: Meles Zenawi met with Heroic Resistance of Sidama Elders! 10 February 2006. Read more

Press Release - 10 February 2006. Read more

Enough is enough! Sidama is telling tyrannical regime. February 6, 2006. Read more

A Suffering people. January 2006. Read more

New Form of Deceit:- Meles’s Plot against the Sidama Continues. 30 January 2006. Read more

Deliberately Caused ‘Marginalization and Underdevelopment’ among the Sidama. 24 January 2006. Read more

Sidama University and High Schools Students held Urgent Meeting in Awassa. 20 January 2006. Read more

Sidama: - Under Tremendous Pressure to abandon their Quest for Regional Autonomy. 18 January 2006. Read more

Sidama Businessmen arrested in Awassa. 9 November 2005. Read more

Killings in Ethiopian Capital. 1 November 2005. Read more

Meles’s Representatives couldn’t achieve their mission. 30 October 2005. Read more

Mr Zenawi’s Regime’s Continued Killings. 30 October 2005. Read more

Ethiopian Dictators’ ‘Cat-Mouse’ Game Continues. 7 October 2005. Read more

Regional status for Sidama threatened. 23 September 2005. Read more

Press Release - 31 August 2005. Read more

The Post Election Vote Rigging Continues. 13 July 2005. Read more

Post-Election Pressure intensifies: Ruling party lost entire seats in Sidama region and urging for re-election. 27 May 2005. Read more

Press Release - 24 May 2005. Read more

The Abuse of the Sidama Women by the EPRDF regime of Ethiopia. 2 April 2005. Read more

The Election Dramas in Ethiopia. 6 March 2005. Read more

The Sacked Southern Ethiopia TPLF Officials’ Lamentation has been considered by their Bosses: - more than 13,000 Army members who refused to go to Ethio-Eritrean war zone arrested. Read more

Hunger and Human Rights Abuses Escalate in Sidama, Ethiopia. 7 January 2005 Read more

The Heroes and the Villains in the Sidama Liberation Struggle: Undoing the Misinformation. Part 2. 4 January 2005 Read more

The Heroes and the Villains in the Sidama Liberation Struggle: Undoing the Misinformation. Part 1. 4 January 2005 Read more

Sidama suffering continues. Innocent Sidamas targeted on daily basis. 22 December 2004 Read more

Meles nominated as member of Tony Blair's Commission for Africa - is this morally justifiable? 26 September 2004 This is in PDF format (size 12KB) Read more

The Sidama Political Asylum Seeker said to have been kidnapped from Nairobi; UNHCR failed to give the Sidamas Protection. 20 September 2004 Read more

A Catastrophic Dismantling of the Sidama Culture continues: - Sidama New Year Celebration & Ritual place (Gudumaale) is said to have been planned for leasing. 16 September 2004 Read more

350-400 Sidama Houses Burned by government Security forces; - Planned Uprooting Continues. 3 September 2004 Read more

Chaotic situation Continues: - Awassa once again under Siege; Melese Marimo Said to have fled the country. 1 September 2004 Read more

Awassa University Students Crisis Continues: An assassination attempt on the Southern Ethiopia University President
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Oromos evicted from their land. December 2003 Read more

Declaration of the establishment of the Sidama National Liberation Organization (SNLO ). Translated from Sidaamuafoo. Read more

The Sidama nation hasn't accepted the Abyssinian conquest peacefully. They
made various attempts to repulse the invading army of Minelik known by
'Neftegna', carriers of gun, led by General Beshah Aboye which was
annihilated by the Sidama army and civilians led by the king of Sidama
called Baalichcha Worawo. It was Leoulseged's army (Minelik's General) which
was able to establish full Abyssinian domination in the Sidama land and
assassinate Baalichcha Worawo and other martyrs of the Sidama.
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God (Magano), Spirit ( Ayaana), and Ancestors (Anuwa Akaakate Ayaana) are the fundamental elements of faith for the Sidamas and are an integral parts of their lives. Above all, the Sidama nations' morality and moral value lies on the true way of life which in Sidama language "Halaale". Read more

The SNLO is committed to enabling the people to fully regain their lost political, social, economic and cultural freedom. Read more

The cultural affairs of the Sidama society is handled by the Woma system. The Woma system has its own council known as the Womu Songo. Woma acts like a cultural and religious leader. Read more

Logiitu Foonchoo, Sidama

Beautiful Sidama occupied land!
This can be great tourist Attraction, yet this part of the Abyssinian empire remains totally neglected!

 

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