Comments on: The 10 Poorest Countries Of The World; Ethiopia 10th place

By: Ronak

Ronak — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:52:33 +0000

“The expression on these guys faces says a million things, weak from hunger and too poor to own shoes or have a shirt to wear. This is all because of the tyrant they call a president.
A beautiful country ruined because of one mans greed. ”

I hate this world

By: mohammed cafe duck germany

mohammed cafe duck germany — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:50:29 +0000

if the african leaders will start to learn a little bit from ghana the will be different thing.ghana was once down,look ghana today developing rapidly.its sad to know that africa is feeding the world an jet its the poorest continet

By: monika z.

monika z. — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:24:41 +0000

Wow, that’s sad. The picture of the kids in the Republic of Somalia is very sad.

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:17:59 +0000

i think its sad to see all these people suffer due to the lack of the governments intrest in the people and their needs e.g clothes, food, education and shelter. every 3 seconds a child dies of hunger and every time i see that add i start to cry. i think if people got together and set up organisations to help these people, the world would be a better place, and if people would stop keeping half of the money they recive from the public e.g trochera is a bad organisation to give to as they own a 4-6 million old victorian building in Dublin and they take most of the money to pay the employees, and stop a 1/4 of the money being taken away from them as they enter the country and then as soon as you get into the country you dont have that much money left as it is being taken away. if all that money goes to the poor people for their needs then it is more likely for a child to reach his/her 8th birthday as they can afford food, better shelter and then they can afford to go to school to get a good education and then these poor countries will soon turn out like the more civilised and richer countries around the world.

By: abdullah

abdullah — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:50:25 +0000

i live in U.K and i have a message did you know that the rcih countries like england USA they dont help the poor countries becuse when they trade their porducts and all they get the double amount of money and they get aloto of tax off them and when we donnate money to the poor people in the poor countries they dont even get the money becuse there is other people in that country that steels the money and the poor suffers the most

By: ANDARGE

ANDARGE — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:11:46 +0000

Never trusted their ranking. BULL SHIT

By: Debebe Regassa

Debebe Regassa — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:50:42 +0000

Endale Seifu says:
There is no as tyrant as you are! Ironically, you are living the American freedom of speech but shutting off the rest. Zeregna, tebaba! You are divisive and destructive!

Dear Endale Seifu, who are you talking about? You better grwo mentaly.. the truth is true always whether you said it or not.. face the facts and respect those who speak facts!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:23:07 +0000

With health and education among children being two of the critical factors needed to grow a nation, my organization called http://www.VisionTrust.org is trying to make difference. We are working in small groups of children in Liberia and Central African Republic. We are helping the fatherless improve in their overall health as well as supporting them with education. The key to this is long-term commitment and using local ideas and staff. In my heart, I believe that the real key to changing lives is a changed heart. Too many children in places like Liberia and CAR have been programmed to kill to get what they want. That does not build up a nation – that builds up oppression. So http://www.VisionTrust.org also teaches children about God and how to love others, respect life and get along.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:05:56 +0000

This breaks my heart. As an adoptive mother to a son from Liberia, I have falled in love with this country. The poverty and lack of opportunity break my heart. My heart is especially breaking for them this week as Mercy Ships is pulling out to go to another port which will cut the number of doctors in Liberia drastically. Some estimates will have it as low as 25 doctors for 3 million people.

By: Kiros Girmay

Kiros Girmay — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:53:55 +0000

That is what MELES and his supporters are proud of. Keep telling us that Ethiopia is develping. During Derg Ethiopia was 165th on the same ranking, now it is 170th out of 177 countries. Fany..

By: George

George — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:56:37 +0000

When you have a bunch of foreign servants appointing themselves as leaders who have no desire to work to improve the lives of their fellow citizens, the result is the pictures we saw above. Resource rich Africa should never have been subjected to this kind of misery and devastation. It will remain a never ending cycle of poverty and backwardness as long as these selfish and geedy tyrants replace one another.

By: MIMI

MIMI — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:28:07 +0000

Even if we don’t have the government to help the people, but we stile have each other. Don’t wait the government change our lives. Be participate each problem we face to solve it. Think how can contribute the community even you don’t have enough money.

By: Endale Seifu

Endale Seifu — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:48:36 +0000

There is no as tyrant as you are! Ironically, you are living the American freedom of speech but shutting off the rest. Zeregna, tebaba! You are divisive and destructive!

By: asai

asai — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:40:14 +0000

all but 1 country are all african
solmon islands been the one not in africa

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:29:19 +0000

If we take a critical analysis of “The Ten Most Poorest Countries of the World”, we will discover that most of these countries mentioned have gone through some form of political crises- either civil war, tyrannical government, economic mismanagement, rampant corruption, neglect of the masses,etc…- that have caused them(countries) to be considered the “Ten Poorest Countries of the World.” Typical examples are Zimbabwe and Liberia which were once considered prosperous nations are now called poor countries. As for Zimbabwe, it is now called a poor country due to Mugabe’s tyrannical rule and mismanagement,whereas Liberia is now poor due its self destructive civil war and corrupt leaders. It is a shame that few corrupt leaders of Africa have caused mass exodus of talented Africans to leave their respective countries in order to seek green pastures in western nations- “The Continuation of the African Brain Drain.”

Wake up African Leaders-your children are leaving Africa, your children are dying of disease and poverty.

Alpha (Monrovia, Liberia)

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:04:29 +0000

I agree with Ayenew! Next year Ethiopia will most definately not be up there!

By: Asfaw

Asfaw — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:58:00 +0000

It could have been worse!

By: joe

joe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:24:17 +0000

Kinshasa is the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Brazzaville is the capital of the Republic of Congo, which is a completely different country, so those pictures are not of the country listed. The civil war revolved around the Democratic Republic of Congo, not the Republic of Congo. Both are poor, but the Republic of Congo has less wealth and fewer natural resources, leading to a lower GDP.

By: ayenew

ayenew — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:44:59 +0000

Thanks god Ethiopia is 10th. Next year, with improvements, it will not be in the top 10!