The annual DV program makes visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements. Every DV lottery entrant must have at least a secondary school education or its equivalent or have, within the past five years, two years of work experience in an occupation requiring at least three years' training or experience.  Applicants who do not meet the educational or work experience requirement will be disqualified.

“A computer-generated, random lottery drawing chooses selectees for diversity visas. The visas are distributed among six geographic regions, with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower historical rates of immigration to the United States, and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the past five years.” The embassy noted that within each region, no single country may receive more than seven percent of the total available diversity visas in any one year.  No countries have been added or removed from the list of eligible countries this year.

In U.S. fiscal year 2009, the Department of State received more than nine million applications for the DV lottery program. Of that number some 100,000 entrants were selected worldwide, including 5,200 Ethiopian citizens, to further pursue a diversity visa.  As in years past, the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia issued more than 3,000 visas to lottery winners from this group, it said.

The congressionally mandated diversity immigrant visa program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Beginning in 2005, the Department of State implemented an electronic registration system in order to make the DV process more efficient and secure. Special technology and other means are used to identify those who commit fraud for the purposes of illegal immigration or those who submit multiple entries. Last year marked the first time that applicants could check the status of entries online and determine whether their entries were selected or not selected. Successful entrants for the 2011 DV program may also check the status of their entry online, and will continue to receive notification letters by mail, the embassy added. 

For detailed information about entry requirements, along with frequently asked questions about the DV lottery, the embassy advised applicants to see the instructions for the DV-2011 diversity visa lottery on the Department’s Consular Affairs website at www.dvlottery.state.gov., and for information about the visa process in Ethiopia, the U.S. Embassy’s website at www.ethiopia.usembassy.gov.
 

Saturday, 25 July 2009 (Reporter) One of the winners of the Green Award organized here Tuesday by Forum for Environment was the Harari Regional State from the category of civil society organizations.

The Harari were awarded a trophy from the hand of Girma-Woldegiorgis, president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, for their old tradition of planting indigenous trees and keeping the environment clean and efficiently managing water so that the scant supply of water reaches all homes by means of a fair distribution.

The Harari region has always had a Mediterranean climate which its inhabitants have worked hard to maintain and have largely succeeded in the venture. They have always believed in the connection between environment and survival Shukria Ahmed, deputy speaker of the Harari Council, who was in here on behalf of the Harari peole to receive the award on Tuesday, said. "Good environment, good life - no environment, no life. That's why the Harari are so concerned about the environment."

Fruit trees and vegetables outside Jegol (the wall surrounding the city of Harar) keep the farmlands from degradation. The bushes protect the hideouts of hyenas outside the walls. At night, the hyenas creep into the city through holes in the wall which, hundreds of years ago, the city dwellers had purposefully bored for the purpose. For the hyenas are not just objects of tourist amusement as they eat pieces of meat from a human feeder. They have a permanent job in Harar as scavengers: they clean up the city by feeding on its slaughterhouse byproducts and carrion.

Harar's drainage system takes water to the farms outside the city wall but first it is filtered in a pond where plastic materials and other inorganic substances settle to the bottom are removed. Non-organic waste is sorted out and dumped separately. And this has continued for several years. "The old generation is handing down its good cultures to the new," Shukria said.

Schools, non-governmental organizations, individuals, and youth groups from Addis Ababa and the regions were also recognized during the ceremony on Tuesday for their achievement in improving the environment.

የሐረሪ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ድርጅት (ሐዴድ) ሊቀመንበር አቶ አብዲ ሰብሪ ለሪፖርተር ጋዜጣ እንደገለፁት፣ ፓርቲያቸው ከሐረሪ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ (ሐዴፓ) ጋር ለመቀናጀት የወሰነው፣ በቅርቡ አራት የፖለቲካ ፓርቲዎች የተስማሙበት የምርጫ ስነምግባር ሰነድ መውጣትን ተከትሎ ነው፡፡ "ሰነዱ የተለያዩ የፖለቲካ አመለካከቶችን ማቀራረብ ይቻላል የሚል ሃሳብ እንዲኖረን አድርጎናል" ያሉት አቶ ሰብሪ፣ ስምምነቱ በተለይ ተመሳሳይ አቋምና በተመሳሳይ አካባቢ የሚንቀሳቀሱት የፖለቲካ ፓርቲዎች በጋራ እንዲሰሩ የሚያነሳሳ መሆኑን ተናግረዋል፡፡ "ሰነዱ አብሮ መሥራት አስተምሮናል፡፡ የመግባባት መንፈስ ፈጥሮብናል"፡፡ በግንባር ለመደራጀት የወሰኑት ሁለቱ ፓርቲዎች በተለይ በመጪው ምርጫ አብሮ መሥራት ውጤት እንደሚኖረውና ለሐረሪ ሕዝብ ትልቅ ጥቅም እንደሚኖረው ይገልፃሉ፡፡

ሃዲድ በአብዮታዊ ዴሞክራሲ የሚያምን ተቃዋሚ ሲሆን፣ ከሐዴፓ ጋር የቀረበ የፖለቲካ ፕሮግራም እንዳለው አቶ አብዲ ይገልፃሉ፡፡ ሐዴድና ሐዴፓ በሐረሪ ክልል የሚንቀሳቀሱ ተቃዋሚዎች ሲሆኑ፣ የሁለቱም ግንባር ለሐረሪ ሕዝብ ጥቅም እንደሚቆም ገልፀዋል፡፡

State Deputy Chief, Regassa Kefele, told WIC today that the construction of the projects is underway in nine urban and rural administrations of the state.

He said the projects focused on road, education, health and other sectors.    Upon going fully operation by the coming June, the projects will benefit more than 100,000 residents of the state, he noted. 

The university has carried out all the necessary preparations to admit the stated number of students, the university told ENA on Sunday.  

Classrooms, dormitories, cafeteria and laboratories have already been prepared for the same purpose.  

The expansion construction the university launched at a cost of more than 200 million Birr is being speeded up. Some 70 percent of the expansion construction launched last year has already been completed. 

Upon going fully operational the expansion construction would increase the university’s enrollment capacity to 7,000.  

It would also support efforts of the university to further enhance its Masters and Phd programs

Toronto Hararis Celebrated Shuwal Eid in Toronto, Canada on Saturday Oct.10^th. The event was organized by the Harari Heritage Center and beyond entertaining. As I capture the event one of the most interesting that caught my attention played by two lovely Harari girls Iman Abdulhakim Jami and Nawal Bahar Sherif. This delivers strong message to all Harari Community and for parents in Diaspora to nurture Harari Language and pass on to the yang generation before it is too late.

Although these two lovely girls Iman A. Jami & Nawal B. Sherif are born and raised in Diaspora, they are no stranger to the Harari Communities around the globe. They both previously performed Harari cultural show at annual HSCF events, in Toronto 2006 and on 2007 in Harar and stole the hearts of the audience with their fluent Harari play performance. Both parents are highly credited to their effort in nurturing them with their mother tong regardless of the other’s influences. We should be proud of and follow the foot steps of all those who made such efforts and in maintaining and nurturing our mother tong that is unique and challenged identity. 

Having said that, with this particular play they have delivered a strong message to Hararis in Diaspora to act on one of the most important and critical to Identity Crisis, raised their concern the disappearing own Harari language and call up on the community to act now. Here I urge all Harari Community to acknowledge and work together to revive our mother tong. Please watch the video may be entertaining, but act on the message.

It was Saturday, October 10-2009,  invited guests almost from every parts of Melbourne and from states across Australia arrived to the hall, for the 25th anniversary celebration of HCAA, more importantly guests from all the way from Harar.. are, Honorable Harari President Mr Murad Abdulhadi and Ambassador Mahdi Gadid along with dignitaries including the Consul General Mr Graham Romanes.

This was the day that every one of us were waiting for, the day we dreamed of to see, the day we regain  the joy, the smile and happiness that have been demolished for a while , the day we noticed and seen smile and happiness in every Harari child and adult faces, and we most belive, it was a miracle and Rahma from Alah.

Most of all the participation of our regional president Mr Murad Abdulhadi and Ambassador Mahidi gadid created the atmosphere of love and greater bond among Harari community in Melbourne.

The stage was full on with programs and speeches, especially with the speech that was made by our present was so good, we all love it, and we all like to thanks to our president to be with us and spend his time with us..

It was one of the best days we Australian have ever had. We also thanks to every one who made this to happen

The Australian Hararis are celebrating 25th year anniversary of HCAA   Australia is beating the drum of celebration, come along, and have fun and celebrates with us. On this Special day we are expecting our honorable Harari President Murad Abdulhade and some of his delegate to be with us.   Additionally, well known Harari super star Adib Abdosh is already arrived  in Melbourne, Australia for a big event which will be expecting to take place from 10th of October to 24th of October 2009.   

This event will be one of the biggest commemorations in the history of  Harari Australian community.......as we all know, preparation have already been underway for the event.   We will be having variety of sporting activities, Special Harari cultural day, Shawalid and Mawud celebrations.    HCAA  Delivered many important satisfaction and accommodate most Harries in Australian history during old days, we all knows that and truly admit that we  have stored lots of unforgettable historical memories and experiences for the last 25 years.   We thanks to Allah that we still around for this great day, so that we can still re-think a few years back and asses ourselves and even put a guide line for the future a head.    We personally urge all Harari Australians to stand together and celebrate our greatest day   This will be the day that we will be showing unbreakable love and respect to our community in general   The event will be hosted by HCAA