By Jason Mclure
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Petroliam Nasional Bhd. was urged by rebels in Ethiopia’s Ogaden Basin not to resume oil exploration in the eastern region.
“Petronas and similar companies should consider the damage to their reputation if they effectively enter into a regime engaged in war crimes,” the Ogaden National Liberation Front said in a statement e-mailed to reporters today in the capital, Addis Ababa. “We urge Petronas to exercise corporate responsibility and steer clear” of the Ogaden region.
The warning comes after a Jan. 3 article in The Reporter, an Addis Ababa-based newspaper, which said Petronas had hired a United Arab Emirates-based company to resume exploration in the region.
Ethnic Somali rebels from the ONLF are seeking independence for Ethiopia’s Ogaden region, an arid area twice the size of England largely inhabited by nomads. In April 2007, the group attacked a Petronas exploration site operated by China’s Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, killing nine Chinese workers and 65 Ethiopians.
The attack triggered a counterinsurgency campaign by the Ethiopian army in the second half of 2007. The area is still under the control of Ethiopia’s military, which has barred foreign reporters from traveling independently in the region.
Tania Landsberg, group communications manager at Petronas’s African unit Engen couldn’t immediately comment when Bloomberg News reached her on her mobile phone. Petronas owns 80 percent of Engen.
No viable oil reserves have yet been discovered in eastern Ethiopia. Ethiopia and Somalia fought wars in 1963-1964 and 1977 over the region.
Wahde Belay, a spokesman for Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry, didn’t answer calls to his mobile phone. Calls to Alemayehu Tegenu, Ethiopia’s minister for mines and energy, didn’t connect.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jason McLure in Addis Ababa via Johannesburg at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net.
Source: Bloomberg, Jan 06, 2009
We have recieved a fax from Petronas in our Washington Offices today. Contents of the fax will be made available to all readers on friday.
Fiqi, Hawd is laylasamatar the harlot! dont bother responding to her ill fated comments.
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Fiqi, Lol! do I irritate you that much, take aim and throw your size 8 1/2 shoe.
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Caraweelos
In fact you are holding at the wrong end of the rope and indeed you need advice to find your way in life. The best business in all the world is that of making friends (you sound lonely) and no investment in any where will pay larger dividends. Life is more than stocks and bonds , and love than rate percent. Forget the Milk Powder and the Black Oil, you do not have enough brains for that stuff. In your case , investment in people will pay you the best interest. In three months time i will make review on your situation and we will talk more about investment. Please do not hesitate to contact me if the timing is inconvenient, of course you have my tel.
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Gaadhka adiga kuma haysto ee waxaan haystaa Fiqi.
I can't make up my mind, which commodity I should invest Powder Milk or Black Oil in the Stock Exchange. Please advice.
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I have in the years learn't to forgive my fellow Somalis when they stumble on me or may i rather say on the long suffering people of ogaden even the likes of Hawd the menace.The hatred he is carrying is a live coal in his heart, far more damaging to himself than those whom he call the longfoot. And isn't it true that the stup*d neither forgives nor forgets, they will also play the blame card even when whole Somalia has disintegrated into clan enclaves.
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yes our resource's will not be exploited by corrupt corporations.
caraweelo- iska daac daac athi, candareeratha iska tir bakhtiyaheyn coolaha ah, najis fowqal najis
ogaden clan are not behind there just any other hawd, we have our nomads and our business people.
how can we seek develpment under such circumstance's
meles cant even develp he's own region.
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Ogaden's resources belong to its people.
Stay away or face the consequences!!!!
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caraweelo
do you know your lineage? i think you are fatherless. by insulting Ogaden people, you need to have a dad first, then being known
otherwise, stay off before hand. (wacel waxmasheegto)
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Fiqicigaa,
What a pathetic and short-mind Longfoot you are, you will understand what I am talking about in 100 years time.
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Mo5,
Fiqi,
Meelkale ayaa Caraweelo looga soo cadheeysiiyey sideey noosheegtay: “It is tit for tat. You show me love and I will give you one. I am not scared to express my opinion, look the other article how the biggest dumb is expressing his hat'e and contempt to others.”
Sidaa darteed iska dhaafa halkan hakaga ciil baxdee.
I think I am the one she refers to as the ‘biggest dumb’ given some exchanges I had with her earlier in other forum.
Midakale, nimanyahow haweenkii meesha weey kukala carareen ee inta soo hadhay haloo adkeeysto.
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Hawd
Iam sure you are in the wrong forum. Do your self and others a big favour and take your dead brain to where they chant clan slogans. This is not one of your marfishs where paranoid xenophobic tribal minded thugs gather to abuse others.
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Caraweelos
Why is it that you always generalise a whole clan with your big mouth? islaan asasaqday oo x*ar ku fadhida baqbaqdeedu umad dhan oo sheikh iyo shariif ba leh waxay yayleyso ayaa iska yar. Don't drag me into your filthy world or as usual you will cry for backup, we have been there before and this time it is personal. By the way , if you want to surrender to your amxaaro then do it on your own , we decided to fight for freedom if you understand what freedom means to any sane human being , not a psycho like you.
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Koore,
I do not think you're the lion of Ogaden but the other way round I suppose,
this is not has to be taken as an insult ogadeni to people but it is the reality now.
Ogedan(clan) people are least developed ethnic Somali clan in Ogaden region, Isaaq and Dir fare
in terms of economic and social cohesion to look after the people. Ogaden clan need to move forward in order to develop
their people's standard of living and educate people. Ethiopia with its western powerful allies can only be defeated in clever
thinking but not in mere muscle-bragging rhetoric of little AK47. You guys arelacking behind in everything and sector
and you are also 150 years behind. Use your commons that will prevail.....
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fully agreedGaadh'haye amd Koore.
Black gold should stay in the Ogaden/Western Somalia sand if it is not benefit for the Somalis in that region. The last thing we need is wayane taking advantage of it for our fellow Somalis' expense.
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I am the lion of ogadenia i must protect our own natural resources (even though we don't use them, lol)
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the ogadenia black gold or gas what ever you call will remain under the ogaden soil as long as the woyane & their supporters are denying god given right of self-determination to Somali ogaden and you raw meat eater animals say what ever you want , remember ogaden Loins (ONLF) are there and they will teach an other lesson those oil-hungry co. on the other hand for petrona- malesiya I will say think twice before you blindly follow the robbers instruction or don't blame to the Ogaden people later on
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Jimcaale,
are you also a candidate to mediate between my creator & me? Don't you understand that Allah can punish me without your help if I deserve it? Do you think that Allah needs your or any other little human being's help for that matter, against me or any other of His creation? Hadam baabin igu!
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s/c kaadaas oranaya diinta masaajidka la aad diinta
masaajidka waa taalaa gurigaadana inaad ku maamushid
weeyaan haddii wax yar oo muslinmo ah kugu hartay ka
towbad keen waa lagu gaaloobaa hadalkaad soo qortay.
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Aaisha1,
nama waxaad tahay haweeney Dr.Cali oo kale ah? Maxaad diin meel walba ula'taagen tahay? Walaaley masaajidka aad oo ka wacdi!
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Islam began as something strange and will revert to being strange as
it began, so give glad tidings to the strangers.
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Cirsan kayeer iska yeer yeer. It is tit for tat. You show me love and I will give you one. I am not scared to express my opinion, look the other article how the biggest dumb is expressing his hat'e and contempt to others.
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Carawelo is extremely hapy to insult Ogade people,
Look at her she is having a ball.I wonder why she is
that way ? is she raised by her parents faith based on
h.a.t.e I think so .This old lady has been doing this
sort of thing on every chance she get.I never thoght
i would see the day Dabayaco the lowest of mankind making
fun of Noble people.
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Caraweelos,
Waxaad ka mis tahay dadka fikradaha waafiga ah ka dhiibta halakan,baayo.
Laakiin hadalka aad ku leedahay waa in ay is dhiibaan dadka reer Ogaadeeniya oo ay dhulkoodii iyo khayraadkoodii u daba fariistaan Tigre waa wax laga naxo.
Dhaq dhaqaaqa xornimo doonka ahi waa dab baxaya oo aan biyo lagu baqtiin karin,wuxuuna socon karaa qarniyo badan,markaa ma aha wax laga daalo,oo laga caajiso.
Waxaa imaan doonta maalin ay xornamadooda iyo calankooda harsan doonaan reer Ogaden.
Inkastoo siday dhacayso aanan ogeyn.
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MO5, "Dadku xornimo la'aan ma noolaan karaan,laakiin caano booro way ku noolaan karaan." what kind of statement is that? are you supporting sub-consciously my argument?.
I didn't offend anyone, except pointing out a real situation. Showing off or being self rightous with me is not what I need. If you want to pertake the debate, you are welcome but don't you ever come with me your patronizing tone. Capisci.
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Caraweelos,
Waxa aad ku hadlaysid waa af-lagaaddo cad oo aad ku caayaysid dadka xornimo u dirirka ah ee Ogaden.
Waxaad tiri "markaana shaqooyin idiin abuurmaan, mise caano booro uun baad rabtaan iyo qaxootinimo aan dhamaad lahayn."
Waa in aad raalli gelin iyo xaal ka bixisid,hadiiba uu ku qabto.
Dadku xornimo la'aan ma noolaan karaan,laakiin caano booro way ku noolaan karaan.
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Cara lol,
what about our share of the black gold in Puntland?
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Gacaliye sow inuu caqliga shaqeeyo maaha. Tedese asaga kaala wareegaya adoon weligaa calfan waxa dhulkaas ku jira, waayo maalin kasta wuu idin rarayaa si farsameysan, markaa xornimo kama soo socoto meeshee dadkaas wax la wadaaga, haddeysan qarni ka badan aysan dhicin xornimadaan cirka ku laalan.
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I meant enogh oil bucks in clansland, Puntland!
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Cara lool,
come on sister, do you want fight with me? I am laughing... ! I'll get enough oil revenue in soon and the W-Somali oil, I won't share it with any Tedese or Hailu for will try to cheat as usual, lool.
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War busaarada ayaa idinka kici lahayd oo naf ba idin soo geli lahayd haddi regionka uu lageysto isla markaana shaqooyin idiin abuurmaan, mise caano booro uun baad rabtaan iyo qaxootinimo aan dhamaad lahayn.
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To all foreign cor-operations invited to oil exploration in OCCUPIED WESTERN SOMALIA (known as Ogadenia):
You are hereby warned that this part of Somaliland is illegally occupied by Ethiopia. Ethiopia as an occupying power of the region has no legal right to issue exploration permits to anyone. Please be informed that you will there on your own risk!!!!!!!
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Ahh so they are lost for words. The Ethiopian thieves are tripping all over themselves and they think if they tighten their stranglehold on innocent Somali villagers in ogaden, evrything will be fine. Far from it, wait till ONLF and its supporters attack Petronas who are managed by the most greedy sociopathic and balligerent , based on endless voracious, insatiable gluttony, exploitation, conguest and pillage. We have warned them before , they failed to comply and they have paid a heavty price. We don't want their blood , they better stay away from our land or face the music one more time.
Fiqi
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No freedom, no oil exploration. Simple as that. Finish and Klaar!
He who warned you did not harm you.
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