The Big Wobble - HORRIBLE

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More than 300 people died of the cholera epidemic in Ogaden during the last 72 hours.
Thousand are also at life-threatening stage with no medicine or health support.
Although most of the towns in Ogaden are affected, the disease is creating havoc in the rural areas, where there are no health facilities or emergency provisions.
Villagers are reporting that families find their relatives dead in the remote areas while tending livestock.
Some are found days later, mauled by wild animals.
Both the Federal government of Ethiopia and the regional administration are hiding the extent of the epidemic and are not providing the urgent help that is needed.
The most affected areas are in the regions of Jarar (dhegahbuur); Nogob (to urge), Qorahay (Qabridaharre) and Shabelle. Similar deaths are reported in Doollo, Afdheer and Liibaan regions. Since November, it is conservatively estimated that more than 2000 have died in the remote rural areas in Ogaden.
The situation is further exacerbated by the drought and lack of adequate food or water and people are so emancipated that anyone affected dies quickly.
Although both the UN and the Ethiopian government mention the drought and the Cholera (Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) in their reports, no concrete action has been taken.
The people are dying for a curable disease that only requires a few antibiotics.
However, the Ethiopian government has deprived the Somali people in Ogaden of the ability to buy medicine or food in neighbouring countries by the ruthlessly imposing an undeclared embargo on trade and aid while barring access to international NGOs and independent media to most of the Ogaden.
ONLF urgently appeals to the World Health Organisation and UN agencies to heed the call for help from the Ogaden people and take urgent action in Ogaden regarding the drought and Cholera.
Visits and reports are not enough.
The Ethiopian government is committing a crime tantamount to genocide in preventing the Ogaden people from having access to medicine and food - an inhumane and heinous act.
ONLF calls upon the AU, EU, USA, the OIC, ICC, and other donor countries to press the Ethiopian government and the UN to act urgently to alleviate the calamity that is unfolding in Ogaden - specifically, to allow international NGOs to provide urgent medical relief and food aid to the rural agro-pastoralist community.
ONLF calls upon the Somali people and all peoples in Ethiopian to highlight the issue to the international community and offer their support.

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The trouble started with a mass escape.
Dozens of teens held in an overcrowded state-run shelter on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital flooded through the gates Tuesday evening, most only to be caught and locked down in their dorms. On Wednesday morning someone set fire to mattresses in the girls' section of the rural campus, authorities said.
The blaze quickly spread through two dorms, killing at least 22 girls and injuring dozens more, most with second- and third-degree burns.
Distraught parents scribbled their children's names on pieces of paper to pass to shelter staff begging for information.
They went to the two local hospitals and the morgue.
Authorities worked to identify victims, but said DNA tests might be necessary for some remains.
At Roosevelt Hospital, Dr. Marco Antonio Barrientos asked parents waiting outside for information to come back with photographs, dental records and details about tattoos or other distinctive features. Piedad Estrada, a street vendor, arrived at the hospital with a photograph of her 16-year-old daughter. She said the teen was pregnant and had been at the shelter for nine days because she ran away from home.
Estrada searched at the hospitals and the morgue, but got no information.
She showed the photo to workers at one hospital, but they said they had five girls who were completely bandaged so they could not be sure.
"They only took her from me to burn her," Estrada said.
"I blame the state for what has happened."
Late Wednesday at the morgue, Patricia Ramirez said her 15-year-old granddaughter Achly Gabriela Mendez Ramirez was one of the dead.
She said her daughter, the girl's mother, had identified Achly's burned body at the shelter earlier in the day, but authorities said they would not release her body until there was a DNA test.
Ramirez said the family was from a region east of the capital in Jutiapa department and Achly had been at the home for one year.
Ambulances had hurried to the hospitals throughout the morning carrying the injured, some partially naked, burned bright pink with large flaps of skin hanging from their bodies.
A 15-year-old girl being treated for minor injuries at Roosevelt Hospital said she and other girls had sought refuge on the roof of their dorm after the disturbances began, fearful of being attacked by other youths.
By morning she said she could see the fire in a nearby building. "I saw the smoke in the place.
It smelled like flesh," the girl said.
Hours after the fire, the government in a statement expressed its condolences to the victims' families and promised a thorough investigation.
It said that before the incident it had asked that the shelter transfer youths with criminal histories who were there on judges' orders to other facilities, but that had not happened.
It said the director had been fired.
Surrounded by trees and a 30-foot wall, the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home was built to hold 500 young residents, but at the time of the fire housed at least 800.
The residents were a mix of children in protective custody who had been victims of abuse as well as older youths with criminal records who had served their sentences but had nowhere else to go. Complaints about abuse and living conditions at the overcrowded shelter have been frequent.
Jorge de Leon, Guatemala's human rights prosecutor, said in a statement that at least 102 children had been located after escaping from the shelter but more had managed to flee.
He said younger children fled the shelter because they were being abused by older residents.

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