Petronas, da Oil and Gas giant started drilling Ogaden Basin

[Queen_Arawello]

http://www.ezega.com/News/NewsDetails.aspx?Page=heads&NewsID=1738




The Malaysian state-owned company is one of more than a dozen international explorers hunting for oil and gas deposits in different parts of the huge Horn of Africa country.

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels said that everyone should know that Ogaden was a war zone and the government had no right to sign contracts there.

“We urge Petronas to exercise corporate responsibility and steer clear of Ogaden so long as our people are victims of genocide and their rights to determine their own future are violently denied,” the guerrillas said in a statement.

“To do anything less would be to act as an accomplice to a regime engaged in yet another African genocide.”

The separatist ONLF has long objected to foreign energy companies prospecting in its region, which borders Somalia.

In April 2007, its fighters killed 74 people in a raid on an Ogaden oil exploration field run by a subsidiary of Sinopec China’s biggest refiner and petrochemicals producer.

[The_Emperior5]

Why do I have the feeling that onlf are preparing a big attack just like the on in 2007

[stunnintolive]

not good 4 the ogaden people that money will go to the pocket ethiopia raw meat eaters and how this world function when you starving they dont care but still want to steal your riches and the so called UN turns the head then why they care about the world

[American-Suufi]

not good 4 the ogaden people that money will go to the pocket ethiopia raw meat eaters and how this world function when you starving they dont care but still want to steal your riches and the so called UN turns the head then why they care about the world

2/3 of ogadens dont want onlf who wears a tribalist outfit with only one subclan of ogaden membership. they know if onlf succeeds, western zoomalia will be like zoomalia. if tigre's r running ethiopia, why cant all the zoomalis in western zoomali
concentrate making their region better, building schools, industry and hospitals so one day they will lead the whole of ethiopia. what will one sub-tribe of ogaden struggle achieve other than more deaths, poverty and illiteracy? sometime humans think better when they are in such situations but nomad zoomalis can only think of wars and sub-sub tribalism.

[basayev]

petronas are well known vampires. GUUUUUL ONLF

[*Nobleman*]

Its well know that region is oil rich, but its more likely oil exploration will take place in somalia. Ogadenia is far too unstable for any company to even think about investing a single dollar in oil exploration.