Villagers in Somali region of Ethiopia are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead
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Villagers in Ethiopia are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead as mystery sickness is blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling
PUBLISHED: 20:10, 1 March 2020 | UPDATED: 20:12, 1 March 2020
Ethiopians are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead in a mystery sickness - which has been blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling.
The sickness, which has allegedly spread through villages near a gas project in Somali, is also reported to turn its victims' eyes yellow, before causing a fever, swelling across the body and ultimately death.
Other symptoms of the unidentified illness include yellowing palms, a lack of appetite and sleeplessness.
Officials in Addis Ababa have denied allegations of a health and environmental crisis in the region, the Guardian reported.
Villagers in Ethiopia are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead in a mystery sickness - which has been blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling (Pictured: an oil exploration project in Ethiopia)
It is also unclear what is causing the sickness, though many are suspicious it is caused by apparent chemical waste which has poisoned the region's water supply.
'It is the toxins that flow in the rainfall from Calub [gas field] that are responsible for this epidemic,' victim Khadar Abdi Abdullahi said.
Mr Abdullahi, 23, from Jigjiga, was discharged from hospital when doctors told him there was nothing more they could do when he fell ill. He later died.
An adviser to the Somali regional government claimed there 'are new diseases that have never been seen before in this area.'
'Without any public health protection, it is very clear that POLY-GCL uses chemicals that are detrimental to human health,' they added.
China's POLY-GCL Petroleum Investments last year confirmed plans to build a 767-km Ethiopia to Djibouti natural gas pipeline to transport Ethiopian gas to an export terminal in the Red Sea state.
The East African country found extensive gas deposits in its eastern Ogaden Basin in the 1970s.
POLY-GCL has been developing the Calub and Hilala fields there since signing a production sharing deal with Ethiopia in 2013. Calub, south-east of Jigjiga, is reportedly due to begin commercial gas production shortly.
One former engineer from the Chinese firm alleged there had been regular spillages of drilling fluids including sulphuric acid over the three years he worked onsite in Calub.
Another said 'those indigenous to the land die from raw toxins spilled out of sheer carelessness. Operational companies in Calub have forfeited their duty to protect local people'.
But it is possible these chemical spillages may be historical, or may have been caused by the likes of Ethiopian transport firms.
Ketsela Tadesse, director of licensing at the federal ministry of mines and petroleum, said 'all the gas wells at Calub and elsewhere in the Ogaden Basin, are sealed, safe and secured … according to international standards'.
The sickness is reported to turn its victims' eyes yellow, before causing a fever, swelling across the body and ultimately death (stock image)
Recently, POLY-GCL signed a memorandum of understanding with Djibouti to invest £3.1 billion ($4 billion) to build the natural gas pipeline, a liquefaction plant and an export terminal to be located in Damerjog, near the country's border with Somalia.
It was envisaged that production would start in 2018, but the Ethiopian government said that was now likely to happen in 2020.
Djibouti's Energy Minister Yonis Ali Guedi said last year the deal hammered out 'key terms that will serve as a basis' for related concession contracts.
'It is the most expensive project ever built in the Horn of Africa region,' he said. 'The two parties have reached an agreement in principle to allow them to benefit from the project in an equitable manner.'
POLY-GCL is a joint venture between state-owned China POLY Group Corporation and privately owned Hong Kong-based Golden Concord Group.
Africa's eastern seaboard could soon become a major global producer of liquefied natural gas, with other planned projects based on big gas finds made in Tanzania and Mozambique.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Sj99DcBJLqD2H_fHkSHRJMjnXHr9nh2SzBXYXC4pOaXlI
- Unidentified sickness reportedly spreading through villages near a gas project
- Symptoms include yellow eyes and palms, alongside bleeding noses and mouth
- Officials in Addis Ababa denied allegations of a health and environmental crisis
PUBLISHED: 20:10, 1 March 2020 | UPDATED: 20:12, 1 March 2020
Ethiopians are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead in a mystery sickness - which has been blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling.
The sickness, which has allegedly spread through villages near a gas project in Somali, is also reported to turn its victims' eyes yellow, before causing a fever, swelling across the body and ultimately death.
Other symptoms of the unidentified illness include yellowing palms, a lack of appetite and sleeplessness.
Officials in Addis Ababa have denied allegations of a health and environmental crisis in the region, the Guardian reported.
Villagers in Ethiopia are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead in a mystery sickness - which has been blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling (Pictured: an oil exploration project in Ethiopia)
It is also unclear what is causing the sickness, though many are suspicious it is caused by apparent chemical waste which has poisoned the region's water supply.
'It is the toxins that flow in the rainfall from Calub [gas field] that are responsible for this epidemic,' victim Khadar Abdi Abdullahi said.
Mr Abdullahi, 23, from Jigjiga, was discharged from hospital when doctors told him there was nothing more they could do when he fell ill. He later died.
An adviser to the Somali regional government claimed there 'are new diseases that have never been seen before in this area.'
'Without any public health protection, it is very clear that POLY-GCL uses chemicals that are detrimental to human health,' they added.
China's POLY-GCL Petroleum Investments last year confirmed plans to build a 767-km Ethiopia to Djibouti natural gas pipeline to transport Ethiopian gas to an export terminal in the Red Sea state.
The East African country found extensive gas deposits in its eastern Ogaden Basin in the 1970s.
POLY-GCL has been developing the Calub and Hilala fields there since signing a production sharing deal with Ethiopia in 2013. Calub, south-east of Jigjiga, is reportedly due to begin commercial gas production shortly.
One former engineer from the Chinese firm alleged there had been regular spillages of drilling fluids including sulphuric acid over the three years he worked onsite in Calub.
Another said 'those indigenous to the land die from raw toxins spilled out of sheer carelessness. Operational companies in Calub have forfeited their duty to protect local people'.
But it is possible these chemical spillages may be historical, or may have been caused by the likes of Ethiopian transport firms.
Ketsela Tadesse, director of licensing at the federal ministry of mines and petroleum, said 'all the gas wells at Calub and elsewhere in the Ogaden Basin, are sealed, safe and secured … according to international standards'.
The sickness is reported to turn its victims' eyes yellow, before causing a fever, swelling across the body and ultimately death (stock image)
Recently, POLY-GCL signed a memorandum of understanding with Djibouti to invest £3.1 billion ($4 billion) to build the natural gas pipeline, a liquefaction plant and an export terminal to be located in Damerjog, near the country's border with Somalia.
It was envisaged that production would start in 2018, but the Ethiopian government said that was now likely to happen in 2020.
Djibouti's Energy Minister Yonis Ali Guedi said last year the deal hammered out 'key terms that will serve as a basis' for related concession contracts.
'It is the most expensive project ever built in the Horn of Africa region,' he said. 'The two parties have reached an agreement in principle to allow them to benefit from the project in an equitable manner.'
POLY-GCL is a joint venture between state-owned China POLY Group Corporation and privately owned Hong Kong-based Golden Concord Group.
Africa's eastern seaboard could soon become a major global producer of liquefied natural gas, with other planned projects based on big gas finds made in Tanzania and Mozambique.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Sj99DcBJLqD2H_fHkSHRJMjnXHr9nh2SzBXYXC4pOaXlI
Villagers in Ethiopia are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead as mystery sickness is blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling
- Unidentified sickness reportedly spreading through villages near a gas project
- Symptoms include yellow eyes and palms, alongside bleeding noses and mouth
- Officials in Addis Ababa denied allegations of a health and environmental crisis
PUBLISHED: 20:10, 1 March 2020 | UPDATED: 20:12, 1 March 2020
Ethiopians are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead in a mystery sickness - which has been blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling.
The sickness, which has allegedly spread through villages near a gas project in Somali, is also reported to turn its victims' eyes yellow, before causing a fever, swelling across the body and ultimately death.
Other symptoms of the unidentified illness include yellowing palms, a lack of appetite and sleeplessness.
Officials in Addis Ababa have denied allegations of a health and environmental crisis in the region, the Guardian reported.
Villagers in Ethiopia are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead in a mystery sickness - which has been blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling (Pictured: an oil exploration project in Ethiopia)
It is also unclear what is causing the sickness, though many are suspicious it is caused by apparent chemical waste which has poisoned the region's water supply.
'It is the toxins that flow in the rainfall from Calub [gas field] that are responsible for this epidemic,' victim Khadar Abdi Abdullahi said.
Mr Abdullahi, 23, from Jigjiga, was discharged from hospital when doctors told him there was nothing more they could do when he fell ill. He later died.
An adviser to the Somali regional government claimed there 'are new diseases that have never been seen before in this area.'
'Without any public health protection, it is very clear that POLY-GCL uses chemicals that are detrimental to human health,' they added.
China's POLY-GCL Petroleum Investments last year confirmed plans to build a 767-km Ethiopia to Djibouti natural gas pipeline to transport Ethiopian gas to an export terminal in the Red Sea state.
The East African country found extensive gas deposits in its eastern Ogaden Basin in the 1970s.
POLY-GCL has been developing the Calub and Hilala fields there since signing a production sharing deal with Ethiopia in 2013. Calub, south-east of Jigjiga, is reportedly due to begin commercial gas production shortly.
One former engineer from the Chinese firm alleged there had been regular spillages of drilling fluids including sulphuric acid over the three years he worked onsite in Calub.
Another said 'those indigenous to the land die from raw toxins spilled out of sheer carelessness. Operational companies in Calub have forfeited their duty to protect local people'.
But it is possible these chemical spillages may be historical, or may have been caused by the likes of Ethiopian transport firms.
Ketsela Tadesse, director of licensing at the federal ministry of mines and petroleum, said 'all the gas wells at Calub and elsewhere in the Ogaden Basin, are sealed, safe and secured … according to international standards'.
The sickness is reported to turn its victims' eyes yellow, before causing a fever, swelling across the body and ultimately death (stock image)
Recently, POLY-GCL signed a memorandum of understanding with Djibouti to invest £3.1 billion ($4 billion) to build the natural gas pipeline, a liquefaction plant and an export terminal to be located in Damerjog, near the country's border with Somalia.
It was envisaged that production would start in 2018, but the Ethiopian government said that was now likely to happen in 2020.
Djibouti's Energy Minister Yonis Ali Guedi said last year the deal hammered out 'key terms that will serve as a basis' for related concession contracts.
'It is the most expensive project ever built in the Horn of Africa region,' he said. 'The two parties have reached an agreement in principle to allow them to benefit from the project in an equitable manner.'
POLY-GCL is a joint venture between state-owned China POLY Group Corporation and privately owned Hong Kong-based Golden Concord Group.
Africa's eastern seaboard could soon become a major global producer of liquefied natural gas, with other planned projects based on big gas finds made in Tanzania and Mozambique.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Sj99DcBJLqD2H_fHkSHRJMjnXHr9nh2SzBXYXC4pOaXlI
ONLF/JXWO or some other liberation front needs be doing something about this along with local government they can't wait for Born Again Pastor AbiyAhmed he will say love and the holy spirit are the cure no need to do anything
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Bohol
VIP
ONLF surrendered longtime ago.
I think they're still active but peaceful now. I think they should peacefully resolve this issue
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
a peace deal isn't a surrender.
Lmao it's 100% surrendering. Don't worry tho, every other clan did the same decades ago, at least y'all went hard till 2018.
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
so surrdering means you'll try achieve your goals through peacefull mean?
https://addisstandard.com/news-ethiopia-onlf-sign-historic-peace-deal/
Onlf's goal is self determination. There's absolutely no chance that's ever happening through peaceful means lol. Where you born yesterday, abti?
Onlf's goal is self determination. There's absolutely no chance that's ever happening through peaceful means lol. Where you born yesterday, abti?
That's last century goals.
Now they're all about that
Hopefully it's to build up resources and to build up their foundations . .. instead of their own pockets.
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
onlf has made clear many times that federal system is key to self determination. current agenda is aimed to increase autonomy of the somali state.Onlf's goal is self determination. There's absolutely no chance that's ever happening through peaceful means lol. Where you born yesterday, abti?
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
was onlf surrendering in 1990 when they joined the transitional ethiopian goverment?Taking part in elections setup by your oppressors, isn't surrendering now? The mental gymnastics
Taking part in elections setup by your oppressors isn't surrendering now? The mental gymnastics
I think Born Again Pastor AbiyAxmed is pushing the gospel peace and prosperity through love and the mysteries of the holy spirit withour making major structural changes but we will have to see what happens if opposition is allowed to compete in election.
OLF takes must Oromiyaland will they oppose article 39 votes for a bunch of states and formerly banned liberatoon movements.
Grand Pastor Abiy might not the same oppressor and he might lose the Qoti state to OLF who are not the same old oppressor
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