Meles Zenawi

Re-Reading the New York Times article I posted earlier, I was saddened and dismayed and the erosion of land rights and ownership that seems to indeed be fueling drought and famine in Ethiopia and other countries in Africa. According to the article, Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, a former Marxist ( Marxists are usually big on land ownership and workers owning the means to production and labor) turned autocrat who has banned private ownership of land in Ethiopia, allowing some lands to become fallow ( granted, a good thing for erosion prevention) while allowing intense cultivation and irrigation by foreign entities who inject millions into ... Read Full Story

[About the international response to events in Somalia, Zenawi says, "there was not enough money to support the government, lots of promises but very little delivery. Secondly, whatever money was being delivered was being delivered by third-party organisations: NGOs, international organisations." The same is being said about Afghanistan. -jlt] Africa Confidential : You’ve gone on record as saying that an effect of the financial downturn could be increased political unrest in Africa. That was three months ago. Is that point of view still valid and are there particular areas that you are more concerned about? Meles Zenawi : Well, soon after I said that, ... Read Full Story

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