Comments on: UN warns of food ‘neo-colonialism’

By: uuuuhhhh

uuuuhhhh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:51:47 +0000

ooofff, besenteu enekatel!!! bezer, behaimanot, ahun degmo be meretachen.

The man with the gun is always right!!!! is what they say, let it be. It is my believe that God has arranged something good for us. What else, the gov’t will kill us if we say no to the Arab invaders.

By: Alaro

Alaro — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:56:56 +0000

Even Mr Diof of the UN calls Meles’ offer to the Saudis – sell them farm land so that they become self sufficient in food rather than we farming and selling it to them – neo colonial.
I wonder which country’s interest Meles?
I suggest he should demand oilfields in return from the Saudis so that we too can become self sufficient in energy. We may then call others, with the capability to drill – such as the French,the Dutch or the South African brothers to go get the oil from our fields in Saudi for a share of the product.
That would be somewhat fair.

By: Wey Zendero

Wey Zendero — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:54:45 +0000

Is this part of the Agriculture-led industrialization strategy of Zenawi & co? If so, how is this supposed to create wealth in the rural area when the investor, the producer and the beneficiary is another country? This is rather similar to a rent-seeking schema, a schema vociferously condemned by Zenawi (who by the way is completely immune to the concept of integrity).

And of course not doubt these investors will get the best lands. It must be paradoxical to see, after a drought, the investor country shipping out food while the host country experience another famine.

This is yet another misguided policy and I don’t think it will be the last one. No wonder when the best expert on economy the regime can afford is …Zenawi!

By: Assta B. Gettu

Assta B. Gettu — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:37:24 +0000

Menelik II of Ethiopia fought hard against the Italian invaders and drove them away without giving them even an inch of land; however, the Ethiopian dictator, Meles Seitanawi, has declared openly to allow some foreign countries to use “hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land” without the will of the Ethiopian people. The representatives of the Ethiopian people have never expressed their thoughts about such land deals; even if they do, the final word rests on one man only, and that man is Meles Seitanawi. As most of us well know, Meles Seitanawi never plans or does anything good that benefits the Ethiopian people, and the people of Ethiopia are numbed by their everyday sufferings they receive from this evil man, so they cannot say any word that displeases him. After he is done with the land investment, he will then sell millions of poor Ethiopians to the Arabs as domestic workers and field laborers.