By Keffyalew Gebremedhin – The Ethiopia Observatory
Truly speaking, it is very difficult to expect anything out of the May 7 one-day Somalia Conference 2013, which took place in London. Voices of skepticism were abundant even at the preparatory phases, as are now after the conference ended and its intentions summed up in a final communiqué released already made available as public document.
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"When they [government officials] first came they told us an investor was coming and we would develop the land alongside one another. They didn't say the land would be taken away from us entirely. I don't understand why the government took the land."
Farmer Gemechu Garbaba
His wife adds:
"Since the land was taken away from us we are impoverished. Nothing has gone right for us, since these investors came."
Africa succumbs to colonial-style land grab
Channel 4 News, 7 January 2012
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