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Government denies food aid "manipulated" for political gain
published 87 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 87 days, 19 hours, 54 minutes ago
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:21:29 AM GMT Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:05:12 AM GMT
After harvesting just 50kg of grain last year from his tiny plot in an arid corner of Ethiopia's Amhara region, Asmenaw Keflegn knew he would have to ask for help. But when the 44-year-old member of the opposition All Ethiopia Unity Party asked his village chairman to put him on a list of those eligible for emergency food aid from foreign donors, he was refused. The chairman told him, "Let the party that you belong to give you aid." Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary D... (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.reliefweb.int tags: Addis Ababa, Bob Geldof, eprdf, ethiopia, Food, Meles Zenawi

Nearly 206,000 ha. land covered with seeds in Awi Zone
published 87 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 87 days, 19 hours, 55 minutes ago
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:21:29 AM GMT Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:04:11 AM GMT
Close to 206,000 hectares land has been covered with seeds in Awi Zone, Amhara State in the current harvest season, zonal agriculture and rural development main department said. Department head, Adgeh Mekuria told ENA that the plan was to cover over 271,000 hectares land with seeds. Efforts are underway to cover the remaining area of land with seeds. Adgeh said activities are underway to increase productivity by 50 per cent through improving distribution of agricultural inputs and expanding the area of... (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.reliefweb.int tags: agriculture, Bahir Dar, economy, Food

Sharp price increases for soft drinks in Ethiopia
published 102 days, 6 hours, 25 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 102 days, 6 hours, 25 minutes ago
Monday, May 24, 2010 5:34:20 PM GMT Monday, May 24, 2010 5:33:55 PM GMT
Sharp price increases for soft drinks in Ethiopia PRICES of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo products in Ethiopia have risen significantly this month, accortding to Addis Fortune. East Africa Bottling Share Company (EASBC) has put the price of a case of 24 of its products, including Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, and Schwepps Tonic, to ETB70 (USD5.12). The new recommended price for consumers is ETB3.50 for a 300ml bottle and ET B4.50 for a 500ml pack. Crystal Mineral Water has not seen any change in price, yet.Pleas... (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.agra-net.com tags: Addis Ababa, economy, ethiopia, Food

Ethiopia: Live Aid-Arms Aid?
published 105 days, 16 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 105 days, 16 hours, 26 minutes ago
Friday, May 21, 2010 7:41:12 AM GMT Friday, May 21, 2010 7:33:00 AM GMT
THE BBC brought the 1984 Ethiopian famine to the world's attention. The outcry in richer countries at the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people led directly to Band Aid, Live Aid, and a punchier approach to humanitarian aid. An investigation published last week by the BBC claims to have discovered that nearly all of the aid money handled by the Marxist rebel Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which then controlled northern Ethiopia, was spent buying arms to fight the Soviet-backed dictato... (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.economist.com tags: Bob Geldof, election 2002, eprdf, Food, Melat Yante, TPLF

Breaking news: Band Aid Director confirms Aid Abuse
published 167 days, 19 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 167 days, 19 hours, 34 minutes ago
Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:28:24 AM GMT Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:24:54 AM GMT
>> Meles Zenawi lies exposed (Video by Ethio tube) >> Meles speaks about the diverted money (Audio by EMF) Download Sorry Bob, Band Aid millions DID pay for guns: Charity’s man in Ethiopia tells his disturbing story.. Will Bob Geldof eat his hat - and keep his promise to sue the Ethiopian government? dailymail.co.uk By Zoe Brennan, [...] (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: ethioforum.org tags: election 2002, eprdf, Ethiopia Media, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Meles Zenawi

When Humanitarian Aid Winds Up in the Wrong Hands - TIME
published 173 days, 24 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 173 days, 51 minutes ago
Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:34:47 PM GMT Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:08:22 PM GMT
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (left), and Kenya's Financa Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (center) listen as Bob Geldof talks during a discussion on "Africa's Economic Transformation" at Nairobi University, March 8, 2010. Simon ... (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.time.com tags: Bob Geldof, election 2002, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Meles Zenawi

Bob Geldof should be held accountable
published 176 days, 16 hours, 54 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 176 days, 16 hours, 59 minutes ago
Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:05:00 AM GMT Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:00:10 AM GMT
By Alem Mamo | March 10, 2010 Geldof's defiance amounts to saying the photo to the left never existed at all 1984/85 - Gebremedhin Araya (L), Max Peberdy (center) and Tekleweyni Assefa, a TPLF senior cadre who to this day is the director of REST, the so-called 'humanitarian wing' of the criminal TPLF group. (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: ethiomedia.com tags: Bob Geldof, election 2002, eprdf, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Gebremedhin Araya, TPLF

The BBC's allegations over Ethiopian aid: what is the truth?
published 176 days, 16 hours, 54 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 176 days, 17 hours, 19 minutes ago
Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:05:00 AM GMT Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:40:29 AM GMT
Aid workers must be pragmatic - if food was getting to people, then the money was doing its job. To suggest that the TPLF never pulled a fast one and took their share would be a very foolish .... (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.newstatesman.com tags: Bob Geldof, election 2002, eprdf, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Sir Bob Geldof – Defending the indefensible | Abbay Media
published 176 days, 16 hours, 54 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 176 days, 17 hours, 36 minutes ago
Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:05:00 AM GMT Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:22:44 AM GMT
The year was 1984. A famine of unimaginable proportions was ravaging the northern region of Ethiopia. Besides the famine, that part of Ethiopia was also in the midst of a multi dimensional bloody civil war that took so many lives and destroyed infrastructure. The fighting parties were the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF), operating in a close alliance, launching a coordinated political and military operation against the regime in Addis Ababa. In 19... (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: abbaymedia.com tags: Bob Geldof, eprdf, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

PM Meles Zenawi denies 1984-85 Ethiopia aid was diverted
published 177 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 177 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes ago
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:25:15 AM GMT Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:25:00 AM GMT
The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi has denied the allegation which claimed that 95% of the $100m aid raised by Live Aid and others to fight famine in rebel-held northern Ethiopian in 1985 was diverted to be spent on weapons.He said the BBC had fallen for lies put out by his political opponents on the eve of a general election in Addis Ababa next month. (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.africanews.com tags: election 2002, eprdf, ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Woyane Blood Money
published 178 days, 17 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 178 days, 17 hours, 44 minutes ago
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:22:21 AM GMT Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:15:29 AM GMT
The story of how the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), commonly known as Woyane, stole famine aid money in the 80's has been an open secret among Ethiopians for quite sometime. Only now it is getting the attention it deserves by the international press (see yesterday's BBC expose on the subject titled "Ethiopia famine aid 'spent on weapons"). (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.enset.org tags: eprdf, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Ethiopia: food security situation in North Wollo - report
published 178 days, 17 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 178 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes ago
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:22:21 AM GMT Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:11:05 AM GMT
Preliminary report of the joint multi-agency team (Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS), Regional Disaster Prevention and Food Security Bureau, Regional Water Bureau, WFP, UNICEF, OCHA, GOAL and Save the Children UK) indicates that the food security situation in North Wollo and Wag Hemra zones (Amhara) (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.reliefweb.int tags: economy, ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food

BBC stands by its Ethiopia aid abuse report
published 178 days, 17 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 178 days, 17 hours, 51 minutes ago
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:22:21 AM GMT Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:08:27 AM GMT
The BBC report claimed that 95 per cent of the $100m aid raised for famine in northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted by rebels to buy weapons. (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.newstatesman.com tags: eprdf, ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, TPLF

It's Ethiopia Week in Washington DC
published 182 days, 16 hours, 41 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 182 days, 16 hours, 52 minutes ago
Friday, March 05, 2010 7:17:48 AM GMT Friday, March 05, 2010 7:06:44 AM GMT
If you live anywhere near Shaw, the U Street Corridor or Skyline in Alexandria, VA, you may be thinking – every week is Ethiopia week! But this week is different. (more)
Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.examiner.com tags: ethiopia, ethiopia culture, Ethiopia news, ethiopian food, Ethiopian news, Food

BBC's Ethiopia weapons report denied
published 183 days, 16 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 183 days, 16 hours, 38 minutes ago
Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:25:08 AM GMT Thursday, March 04, 2010 7:21:07 AM GMT
Ethiopian officials and an aid agency have denied a BBC report that millions of dollars in aid for Ethiopian famine victims in the 1980s went to buy arms. (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: news.bbc.co.uk tags: election 2002, eprdf, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, TPLF

TPLF spent aid on weapons - while millions died in 1984 starvation
published 184 days, 15 hours, 47 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 184 days, 15 hours, 48 minutes ago
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:12:32 AM GMT Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:10:55 AM GMT
The BBC has evidence that millions of dollars, earmarked for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85, went to buy weapons. The investigation found claims that a rebel movement in Ethiopia diverted the aid to fund its attempt to overthrow the government of the time. (more)
Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.rocketnews.com tags: eprdf, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Ethiopia: The new breadbasket of the world?
published 215 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 215 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes ago
Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:42:50 AM GMT Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:42:10 AM GMT
Al Amoudi’s Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, receives 10,000 hectares in Gambella to farm rice for 60 years rent-free. As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed development, writes MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent ‘WHY ATTRACTIVE?” reads an [...] (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: abbaymedia.com tags: economy, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food

Dishes of Ethiopian Cuisine From New York’s Queen of Sheba
published 215 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 215 days, 21 hours, 19 minutes ago
Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:42:50 AM GMT Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:39:47 AM GMT
FoxNews.com’s Diane Macedo explores how to prepare authentic Ethiopian cuisine at New York’s Queen of Sheba restaurant. The eatery was also one of thirty-three favorite restaurants of Voice food critic Robert Sietsema, author of Secret New York. Sietsema has reviewed more than 2,000 restaurants in the last 14 years. (more)
Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.tadias.com tags: ethiopia, ethiopia culture, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food

Disputed dam fuels Ethiopia-Kenya border attacks
published 219 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 219 days, 20 hours, 32 minutes ago
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:37:26 AM GMT Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:26:42 AM GMT
Six Kenyans have been killed and over 2,000 villagers forced to flee home in Lokitaung district in attacks by Ethiopian militia, a Kenyan official said on Tuesday. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: english.people.com.cn tags: economy, ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food

Ethiopian famine girl set to marry
published 232 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 232 days, 19 hours, 56 minutes ago
Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:12:36 AM GMT Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:02:55 AM GMT
A girl who became the symbol of the Ethiopian famine during Live Aid 25 years ago has got engaged. (more)
Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.ethioguardian.com tags: ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news, Food
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