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Ethiopia: The great land-grab debate

Photo: Ben Parker/IRIN Foreign investors are leasing vast tracts of land in Ethiopia

GAMBELLA, 25 March 2011 (IRIN) – Ethiopia has little time for critics of its large-scale land-leasing policy, insisting the millions of dollars of foreign investment will create jobs, improve domestic agricultural expertise and reduce both poverty and the country’s chronic food insecurity.
The policy, [...]

Open letter to PM Meles Zenawi Message from the people, by Eskinder Nega

America’s first President, who had refrained, on grounds of principle, from serving more than two terms.

Ethiopian Journalist Alleges Detention for Inciting Egypt-Style Protests

Ethiopian Journalist Alleges Detention for Inciting Egypt-Style Protests
By Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa
VOA News
An Ethiopian journalist says he was detained and harassed by federal police after comparing conditions in Ethiopia to those in North African states hit by people power protests.
Journalist Eskinder Nega says six heavily-armed policemen jumped from a truck on a busy central [...]

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