Posted by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
by Standard Digital
“There is the making of a real potential disaster here [in Ethiopia]…because the government will simply not acknowledge the number of people who need help”.
As the world woke up to news that Ethiopia had overtaken Kenya to become Eastern Africa’s largest economy, a number of conflicting developments were also taking place in Addis Ababa.
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Posted by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
The worst drought for decades in Ethiopia’s northern highlands has ended, but unusually heavy downpours threaten to ruin crops and exacerbate food insecurity as flash flooding turns roads to rivers and swamps fields
Photographs by James Whitlow Delano/USAid via The Guardian
In its latest report, Fews.Net notes that the June to September Kiremt rains have gradually decreased since mid-August, although rainfall totals in most northern and western areas remained above average.
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Editor’s Note:
The TPLF in power is serving its interests, dividing the country into ethnic groups and bantustanizing the nation. How could national leadership without national loyalty unite the people and help them become full participants in the affairs of the nation? How could there be development in such a situation.
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Posted by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
by Katy Migiro, Reuters
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Posted by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
by Arron Reza Merat
NORTH WOLLO, Ethiopia — For decades past, poor Ethiopians lived at the mercy of a royal court that neglected them and a military junta that imposed upon them a dysfunctional command economy. When the rains didn’t come, hundreds of thousands of people starved to death.
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By Keffyalew Gebremedhin – The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
We have reached a stage where the ugly possibility of hunger is feared to reach the 15 million population threshold, and thus the need for massive humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia between October and December 2015 and in early 2016. While hoping it won’t develop into that if already good work is accomplished, nonetheless, tve prospect is worrying United Nations officials, as the AFP implicitly made reference to it last Friday.
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Posted by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
by vox.com
CRITICS WORRY THAT THE TRADE HAS SPURRED A RISE IN ‘LAND GRABBING’
And, in response, a growing number of companies and investors — Wall Street traders, Chinese state corporations, Gulf sheiks — have been buying up farmland abroad. The trade has been booming since 2007, when a spike in grain prices got everyone fretting about shortages. The purchases help countries like China and Saudi Arabia secure food supplies and conserve water domestically. But critics worry that the trade has also spurred a rise in “land grabs” — when sellers in countries like Ethiopia or Cambodia forcibly acquire the farmland from locals in the first place.
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