Two decades of TPLF’s government mismanagement has dried up Lake Haramaya.
Haramaya: Voices from a Vanished Lake. By Alex Stonehill with Jessica Partnow and Sarah Stuteville, 2008
Haramaya Lake - 2009
The informant is a graduate of Haramaya University in 1984. That time he used to cross lake Haramaya on Boat to visit farmers on the other side of the lake to visit the community.
But as the photo shows (taken in June 2009) the lake is totally dried. Why did Lake Haramaya dry? The reasons include: lack of good development policy to manage and care of the lake and its resources. Lack of Natural Resources conservation and management strategies and interventions. The Haramaya University was also responsible for not initiating projects and attempting to save it. The same problem is happening to lakes in the rift valleys of Oromia like Lake Abjata, Lake Dambal (Ziway), etc. The worst side of the policy is that no lessons are being learnt to save the remaining water sources, other resources embedded in them and the sounding vegetations. Poverty is extremely expanding in the surroundings of the lakes where water is available for crop food production. Having population from hunger just near the lakes and water resources is a shame and deliberate action by the government as part of poor development policy. It is a tactic to put down and keep the people starved and kneel down for the government.
West Hararghe, Oromia:
It is not only people who are put in to starvation, but their livestock are perishing and crops are drying in Eastern part of Oromia. The attached photos are showing some examples of the humanitarian crises in Oromia.These photos are from Daro Labu woreda of West Hararghe zone where malnutrition is vanishing children and elderly people.
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