The West’s favorite dictator in Africa, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, and his wife Azeb Mesfin, the mother of corruption, are busy stealing Ethiopian coffee, gold and other resources, while, according to the UN, 2.8 million Ethiopians are currently facing sever food shortage. The solution is not for the 2 million Ethiopians to receive food aid from the U.N. The solution is for them to march to 4 Killo and get rid of the vampire regime that is exposing them to hunger and disease by stealing the country’s resources.
(Reuters) — Ethiopia and the United Nations said on Monday 2.8 millions Ethiopians will need emergency food aid in 2011, and appealed for $227 million to fund programs for the first six months.
The Horn of Africa nation is still one of the world’s poorest countries, with nearly 10 percent of the population of 77 million people relying on emergency food aid last year.
The U.N. cited poor performance of rains in the Somali and Oromiya regions late last year for the increasing food problem.
In addition, donor representatives said access was still restricted in nine out of the 52 localities in the Somali region, where a low-level insurgency still prevails. About 40 percent of the beneficiaries are in the Somali region.
“Presently, we all remain concerned about the situation in the eastern and southeastern lowlands of Somali and Oromiya regions, where renewed drought conditions are having a significant humanitarian impact,” said Eugene Owusu, the resident United Nations coordinator.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said his country may not need any food aid within five years thanks to an ambitious development plan that targets an average economic growth of 14.9 percent over the period.
Addis Ababa has posted high economic growth figures over the past five years, averaging about 11 percent, according to government figures.
Ethiopia is one of the world’s largest recipients of foreign aid, receiving more than $3 billion in 2008, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Ethiopia is a key Western ally in the Horn of Africa, where it is seen as a bulwark against militant Islamism. Addis Ababa also wants to attract foreign investment in large-scale farming and oil and gas exploration.
(Reporting by Aaron Maasho; Editing by James Macharia and Mark Heinrich)
13 thoughts on “U.N. says 2.8 million people in Ethiopia face starvation”
Well, when can the Somalis feed themselves ? By relocating them while no single dam is built to help them use the Shebele river? or for the Afar to use Awash? When Axum muslims are desperate to find a place to bury their beloved ones?
This story is similar to the excess electric capacity the government is bragging about and that capacity bringing in foreign exchange when we sell it to Sudan and Kenya while we still live in darkness. It seems TPLF/EPDRF is in the business of selling dreams. I am tired of defending TPLF. We brag about double digit growth in the last so many years but nothing has changed. Life has become intolerable in Ethiopia. From now on I am not buying my party’s propaganda blindly. If TPLF/EPDRF needs my support, they better show me the beef now, not tomorrow. I hope those of you in the TPLF/EPDRF camp start questioning our party’s records too. History will judge us harshly. Is this why we sacrificed so many young comrades; to enrich the few while the masses go starving. Enough is enough.
Does justice exist? This brutal, evil tyrant is responsible for starving his own people, subjecting them to live in abject poverty, kept them illiterate, etc, etc. Why is the world willing to ignore a murderer like Meles who
is enriching himself with unfettered greed while allowing his own country to starve? Meles Zenawi deserves the same fate as Saddam Hussein. Period!
Well please allow me to say that what happen to the “there will not be anyone will sleep in an empty stomach”.I hope the people in ethiopia will wake up and smell the real coffee because this is the time for you guys to say eunogh is eunogh.
What happened to the double digit growth tyrant Meles has been preaching about?
No tyrant in the history of mankind had been thrown away from his power by exchanging mails or writing comments. Action is the only thing that is needed if we realy want to get what we deserve. Action…Action… Action!!!
I believe the number of Ethiopian who are expected to die is a lot higher than the 2.8 UN estimation. About a year or so ago, UN estimation of the Ethiopians who were expected to die of starvation were 12 millions –what happened to the other 10 million Ethiopians who were starving? Have they perished already? Or the corrupted useless organization misinforming the world?
DOES MELES ZENAWI, AZEB GOLA, AL-MOUDI AND ALL OTHER PROFESSIONAL LOOTERS OF ETHIOPIAN RESOURCES HAVE EARS TO HEAR THIS DISASTER OR EYES TO SEE THE STARVING, HUNGRY AND UNDER-FED PEOPLE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY?
YES!
THEY DO HEAR AND SEE BUT THEY DO HAVE IRON HEART TO CARE?
ITS EASY FOR THEM TO SPEND MILLIONS IN SHOPPING SPREE IN EUROPE, ASIA AND AMERICA THAN FEEDING THE UNFED OR CLOTHING THE NAKEDS.
WHY?
THEY ARE NOT LEADERS WHO ARE ELECTED BY PEOPLE TO GOVERN ETHIOPIA. THEY ARE REBELS WHO USE THE BARREL OF THEIR GUN TO RULE. MELES IS NOT DIFFERENT FROM SAMUEL DOE AND I WILL BE THE HAPPIEST PERSON ON EARTH IF THEIR ENDING IS SIMILAR.
HERE IS ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO ASSURE THE WOYANE REGIME AND ALL THEIR MEMBERS…. THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA WILL COME AFTER YOU!
THE WESTERN OR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WHO STOOD BY THE WOYANE REGIME WHICH COMMITTED CRIMES INCLUDING TORTURE, CORRUPTION, ABUSE OF POWER, MURDER AND GENOCIDE AGAINST PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA ARE GUILTY AS WOYANES.
HERE IS THE SIMPLE ANSWER FOR THE GIUILTY VERDICT. THE WESTERN OR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES HELPED THE WOYANES LOOT THE ETHIOPIAN RESOURCES AND DEPOSITED FOR THEM IN THEIR COUNTRIES BANKS OR INVEST IN VARIOUS BUSINESSES INCLUDING REAL STATES AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
I PLEAD WITH ETHIOPIANS TO COME TOGETHER PUTTING A SIDE POLITICAL, LANGUAGE, TRIBAL, CULTURAL, REGION AND RELIGION DIFFERENCES TO REPLACE THE RUTHLESS WOYANE REGIME WITH LEADERS WHO HAVE THE LOVE OF ETHIOPIA AND ETHIOPIANS AT HEART.
AFTER SPENDING ALMOST THREE DECADES IN REFUGE, I ASSURE YOU THAT THERE IS NO BODY WHO IS MORE IMPORTANT TO ETHIOPIA THAN YOU- DEDICATED ETHIOPIAN NATIONALIST.
THE UN, US, EU, IMF, WORLD BANK, AU AND OTHER SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS ARE THERE TO SERVE THEIR OWN INTEREST IF NOT TO TAKE CREDIT OF MEANINGFUL PROGRESS.
On one hand the Ethiopian government is selling land to India, S. Korea, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti and others enabling them to farm and feed THEIR PEOPLE. And on the other hand the indigenous people in Ethiopia, living on the land are begging for food.
I have been around, read and heard several puzzling, and hard to believe stories but this tops it all.
I don’t think the excutives at the UN or the wrongly named World Food Organization care wether the poor people in Ethiopia starve to death or not. They are partners in crime with the Woyanne regime.
Ethiopia gets millions of tons of food every year from these organizations, for the most part this deceptive food aid goes to feel the Woyanne military and the rest is used as a tool to buy polical loyalty to Woyanne, keep the people from farming and gaining their own income and of course profiteering by Woyanne official at every level.
This is the untold story over the aid dependency in Ethiopia, the country has more fertile land than almost all African countries and should be feeding itself and exporting food if the people are given the chance to work their land.
Forget the 2.3 Million many more will starve soon but for woyanee for more people is the better for one thing is more money for the woyeane in the name of this people this kind of
game has been there for a while. that is why after all this LOAN
and donation woyane gets to find 2.3 mil people is outrageous
and hard to accept but for woyanee if the number is more and more they will be happy and we need to pray that woyanee to
distribute the food to this people at least before too many people die .
Lebau Mannew?
The legacy of TPLF rule over Ethiopia is starvation, persecution, and influx of refuges. On the other hand, Ethiopian revenue making corporations, NBE, EAL E.Electric Power Corporation, E.Tel.Corp., and Sugar and salt production are all under the hands of Weyane officials-All revenue flowing in to a weyane pipline.What is more, while Ethiopians go hungry the nations virgin lands are being auctioned for foreign corporations, and the revenue gained from land for lease project is not even reported in the treasury, according to this satment in this article below.
“A question in the minds of citizens in these countries and around the world is whatever happened to the money, for instance, which is not even reported in the case of Ethiopia in the records of government treasury, or as part of income, for instance, in the national budget outlays. For example, the 2010 Ethiopian national budget was approved less than three months ago, with no reference at all to such incomes. If indeed, it is aggregated under the revenue section, it is long overdue that it was indicated specifically as revenue from land rental fees”.
http://www.vkblog.nl/bericht/273580/Experts_worry_over_land_grab_by_foreigners_in_Ethiopia
Not to mention the fact that the same entity received over 3 Billion foreign food aids in 2008 alone.Melese Zenawi is a man who frequntly make statements that he can’t back with evidence; one of his promises has yet to materialize.
For instance, in 2010 he claimed Ethiopia has registered 10% Economic growth. In 1995 he promised each Ethiopian will have 3 meals a day. Contrary to what the Weyane lying machine says in reality Ethiopians are being used by Melese to beg food aid that will flow to the one way pipline that leads to weyane elite.
In short, we have a
government who is unaccountable for the public, a government who aggressively pursue policies contrary to the interest of the people, and a government who is hostile to those who question harmful government policies. To such one there is no remedy but unite all our resources and devise a plan for its removal.