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Hope is better than despair: Ethiopia 25 years on

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Hope is better than despair: Ethiopia 25 years on

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Eighty year-old farmer, Ahmed Muhe Dawed, lost his wife and nephew to the great famine 25 years ago. DFID

Hope is better than despair: Ethiopia 25 years on

Source: DFID

Safety nets programme is giving people new hope to beat the effects of drought


27 November 2009

Ahmed Muhe Dawed is an 80-year-old farmer with three children from Chorisa village in the Amhara Region of Northern Ethiopia.

In 1984-85, his then home village of Geta was struck by the great famine which claimed the lives of more than a million people in Ethiopia.

With 80% of the population engaged in the agricultural sector and farmers depending on rainfall to grow crops, the drought brought devastation across the country.

The world responded with Band Aid, an unprecedented effort by the global community to help people like Ahmed.

But it was too late for many.

Ahmed recalls, "the crops in the field were withered due to the shortage of rain and the drought caused as a result, making it impossible for me and my family to survive."

With no food at home and facing starvation, he was forced to migrate to a place called Bure where he had hoped to be able to work and bring home some food. After being there for just 11 weeks, he was called to see his mother, who was terminally ill.

With tears streaming down his face, he recalls, "When I arrived in my village, I learnt that not only was my mother ill, but my wife had passed away that same morning, and I found my nephew whom I have been raising for 13 years sick in bed. A few days later he also passed away."

Ahmed described how the cattle had died one by one leaving him in an empty hut.

"I was above the dead and below the living", he says.

Very soon he realised that his neighbours were also in a grave condition, with fathers so ill they could not even bury their children.
Twenty-five years on

Ahmed says life has improved gradually as a result of the safety nets programme.

The programme supports 7.5 million Ethiopians who repeatedly find themselves without enough food.

In return for community development work such as school building, families receive regular food and/or cash payments to make sure their household has enough to eat and can grow out of poverty.

Safety net beneficiaries help build roads in exchange for food.

Under the programme, Ahmed has received training on how to use his land better and preserve rainwater for farming.

His harvest is far better than the one he had 25 years ago and he feels he is in a better position now that he is able to produce both staple and cash crops.

Above all he says, "I am able to send my children to school where they get education and receive a food ration."

Ahmed dreams about a day when he can feed his family three times a day and educate his children so that they can support themselves, their country, and him as he grows old.

The safety nets programme aims to develop long-term solutions to the problems that caused the famine 25 years ago.
Food is getting through

DFID Ethiopia is working with many partners to bring an end to people’s dependency on food aid.

This includes government, other donors, civil society and activists who continue to track progress since the 1984 famine such as Sir Bob Geldof.

Speaking on a recent visit to Ethiopia, Minister for International Development Gareth Thomas said: “The situation today is very different from the one the world witnessed in 1984 when over a million people died.

"UK aid, alongside the work of the Ethiopian Government and the wider international community, is ensuring food is getting through but there are a shockingly large number of families still going hungry every day.

"That is why we’re investing over £170m to help people now and for the future but the Ethiopian Government and international community must bring forward real and substantial reform too."

Along with DFID's work on livelihoods and food security are programmes to ensure better health, education and water services for all Ethiopians.

All part of making sure Ahmed’s children do indeed have a better life.

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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
The only way our country will be out of this miserable condition ie when we have democratically elected gov't.

As long as we have dictator melese, betrayal engineer hailu nothing will change.

Europian will be happy to give aids for ever for begging dictator melese.

Dictator melese and his evil supporters are the worest person in this planet.
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msg Comment from: Senay [Visitor]
Deme, copy-paste-ist in chief. kkkk
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msg Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
Senay,..
You got him. He is just a dummy and mentaly challanged. Don't mind him.
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msg Comment from: addis [Visitor]
Deme Sorry friend I think it is you turn to be threaten by weyane cadre, my only advice to you Ye-demet afIncha ataShetet OK
Addis Zemen you find Deme [visitor] to bark right? Ohhhhhhhh…. you are acting like mad dog, maybe you are:crazy:
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
SenaydictatorLover,
Addisdictatorsupporter,

Your lovely evil dictator melese is the main cause of our climate issue not only in Ethiopia but also the whole planet.

Since he has been in Addis almost two dacays ago, our planet suffer from all kinds of climate issues.

In our country drought comes every 3 or 4 years. Here in US, look what happened in Louisiana. The rest of Africa from Mozambic to Zimbabwe all kinds of suffering because of this evil dictator in Addis.

As soon as we get rid of this cruel dictator the whole world would be in a better place. No starvation and no climate related issue after the dictator gone.

One more thing for AddisDictatorSuppoter please keep watching Glen Beck. He is your God father. Worship him like your evils master melese.

Dictator melese, betrayal hailu and his evil supporters are the worest person in this planet.
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msg Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
Addis,..
If you are a real man why don't you speak for your self. Instead of hiding behind other people's name.
Shintam ye gered lij.
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msg Comment from: Ewnetu [Visitor]
No country is built at a satisfactory level following a safety net programe.
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
AddisDictatorSupporter,

You can say all dispicable and primitive dictator words, it means nothing to me. Only dictator supporter call ugly names their own fellow citzin. Just like the right wing extreamest tea party people.

One more thing for you the over night Tigre Woods car accident happened because the evil dictator melese. Dictator has to go!!

"Shintam ye gered lij", the only way you can speak that kind of language because you watch Glen Beck all day. The Glen shaw is a mandatory class for you and other dictator supporter.

Dictator melese, betrayal hailu and his evil supporters are the worest person in this planet.
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msg Comment from: maneh balsmnt [Visitor]
Deme [Visitor]!

Your post:
"...One more thing for AddisDictatorSuppoter please keep watching Glen Beck. He is your God father. Worship him like your evils master melese..."

Who is Glen Beck? Are you talking about the autho Of the book called "Arguing With Idiots"?
Recently while visiting a friend I got a chance to leaf through the above book. I don't think these dictators and Glen Beck have the same philosophy about gov. Glen Beck have a manipulation ove facts. And he is good at spining issues. To my understanding, both suffer from delusions of grandeur.
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msg Comment from: Agerwedad [Visitor]
So the whole point of the article is that foreign aid has managed to keep the population of Ethiopia alive artificially using funds injected from western donors. One of the top three reasons for sending kids to school also happens to be so that kids recieve food aid rations, Is that really something to be proud of??

Foreign aid has also allowed the Ethiopian regime to be immune to the needs of its people and therefore allowing it to become lax in putting in place suitable policies necessary for the agricultural development of the country e.g. land reform. It should also be noted that Mugabe's Zimbabwe's would also be able to do well if DFID, USAID .... religiously pumped money into it and made up for the government's shortcomings.

It is times like these that I can't help but identify with the assertions of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's that "droughts don't cause famines policies do!!"
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
maneh balsmnt,

Yea that the one I was talking about. He is pshcho talk. He does not understand the word honesty and has no guilt for his filty mouth.

The dictator melese supporters the speak exactly like him. I'm sure they are blessed by him. Please look what kind of ugly names they call another Ethiopians.
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 00:22

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msg Comment from: Fasil-oakland [Visitor]
Deme
You are a leprous man, u r absolutly
mentaly leprous. What is the conection of our Mosses
Meles & other African countery problem?
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 02:19

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msg Comment from: get a life deme [Visitor]
deme, you are a damn a*sssss. get a life:!:
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 04:20

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msg Comment from: afarman [Visitor]
The situation in Ethiopia is managed, there is no need to cry, those who have a better idea of developing Ethiopia need to work for it like the EPRDF. There is no need to hide behind your computers and spread venom on Ethiopian government. Our leaders have paid the necessary sacrifices for the motherland, please come on guys smell the coffee. There is no need to critisise the EPRDF for no reason at all. Those in the EPRDF had all the opportunity to distance themselves and see the country from distance criticising governments, but those brave sons and daughters of Ethiopia went to the bushes and fought fire with fire.

Don cry like a baby who is lost on the cross roads, Ethiopia has got a developmental government. The country as we speak now is the 5th fastest growing economy in the world. In few years time, Ethiopia is forcasted to be the biggest economy in East Africa.. we need a government that can help us develop, The EPRDF is doing a fantastic job, they are far ahead of their opponents in every thing. Bravo EPRDF
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msg Comment from: melosovich [Visitor]
afarman (adwa_man):

How can you say "TPLF is ahead of the opposition" when the opposition never had a chance to govern its electorate? We all know the economy began to miracly grow after the 200 innocent people were massacred in their homes and their streets.

And who is telling us the economy is growing? yes some propoganda sources from England and World Bank. Yet when I call home, my people are ever more struggling to survive.


DEATH TO TPLF!
LONG LIVE EPPF, GINBOT7 AND AEUP!
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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
melosovich [Visitor]

"Yet when I call home, my people are ever more struggling to survive."

Well that means the only way your familes can get money out of your hand is by crying hard.
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
Fasil-oakland,
get a life deme,
alldictatorLovers,

A rasist language is how you get commision from your evil master dictator melese. You can't read my comment and take time to analyse it.

All dictatorLovers happy to hear 1+1=5. When a civilized person tell them 1+1=2, they start call you all kinds of nasty names.

For some of you dictator lovers I have to repeat the books you need to read:
1.Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin
2.I'm still standing, by Carrie Prejean
3.Glen Beck show, this is a must required by your evil dictator melese

Nazret.com is for civilized discussion. Please be polite and do not be a hater. Hating is part of your blood system, but you have to try.

Dictator mlese and his evil supporters are the worest person in this planet.
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msg Comment from: Concerned [Visitor]
I'm really concerned about the integrity of some people like Deme. Very stupid as that person is, I'm sorry for this individual because this person doesn't seem normal. I suggest that he check with his Psychic doctor before he goes naked.
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 11:33

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msg Comment from: Helen [Visitor]
Deme
the damy

You and your kind are just waste with no element thanks God Melese is so ignorant to you and your kind confused Diaspora who crying like sick kid for every thing what the government trying to do.
If you have better idea I would mind if you oppose Melese but you just hater who has no clue about politics and economies. You anxiety only show you only the bad of our country.
you stupid mourn how can you balm Ethiopian for what happen in Lusina and Zimbabwe you see what am saying.

afaraman and Extratrial

I personally believe very much in Education us long us kids get a chance to go to school the country future is very bright and the other thing I like abut this aid system they not only give food they are change the ways of farming and make sure kid get food after school.
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
DictatorLoverHelen,

The first thing came out of your mouse is hate and calling ugly name your fellow Ethiopians. Any one who oppose your view or your lovely evil dictator you have be rasist. Why?

All the problem we have in Ethiopia or the rest of the world because of the evil melese. The reason rain do not come on time at home is beause of the dictator. Please remeber that!! I will say it again, the car accident happened to Tigre Woods because of the evil dictator melese.

You need to take time to read my comment. I did not blame Ethiopian for climate issue. Please read it again, I blamed your evil dictator melese. He is the reason all problems we have in this planet.

As soon as he is gone, the starvation in Ethiopia will stop and all climate related issue will improve right away. The evil has to go.

You are suppose to read Carrie Prejean book, I'm still standing and watch your master Glen Beck before you comment here.

Dictator melese and his evil supporter are the worest person in this planet.
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msg Comment from: tagashu [Visitor]
I am tired of reading some f**ked up news every now and then. Here it says that in 1985 about a million died due to the famine. Yesterday, I read it was about 200000.It (200000) is still to many to bare but look at the difference.
Once I read that more than a million were killed by the Derg regime in its red terror campaign.But some other media claims it was a quarter of that.These two are just examples. I can go through a list of fallacies like these.
Please let's not be a victim of reporters who are working day and night to make a courier at any cost, even if it means they have to break the ethical code of the profession.
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 12:41

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msg Comment from: Rasdan [Visitor]
If there was love among as all, we could just have it ALL!

A government is always the reflection of its people, never forget that!

Jah Bless!
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 12:42

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msg Comment from: belachew [Visitor]
for people like addis zemen please grow upkeep your filthy mouth to your self i dont know how you grewup
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msg Comment from: belachew [Visitor]
for people like addis zemen please grow upkeep your filthy mouth to your self i dont know how you grewup
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 12:51

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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
Concerned,

A Psychic doctor is only for DictatorSupporters or DictatorLovers. A civilized or freedom living indivdual like I'm very greatful to live in this country. I'm very lucky and blessed I live here, not with a dictator melese.

You should go to Addis live with the Dictator melese. Ethiopian may not have a Psychic doctor, but there are many witch doctor for you.

Please do not be a hater. Love your fellow country men or women.

Dictator melese and his evil supporter are the worest person in this planet.
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 12:55

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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
Deme [Visitor]

Aye anchi DOMA RAS FARA feri yeleshe endewe tezebarkialeshe.
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 13:21

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msg Comment from: justice 2010 [Visitor]
Deme,
Do not forget that 96% Ethiopians are on your side. Your critics are only here to justify tyranny.

Here is a message for your critics:

http://ecadforum.com/articles/?p=46
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 13:56

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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
Extraterrestrial,

Please speak civilized language. I have told you a millions times DMA RAS FARA means nothing to me. I even checked in Google Amharic, nothing but says DicatatorSupporter.

Any one who is not born or grew up in Addis you call them DOMA RAS FARA. Your dictator melese was not born in Addis, he is from Adigrat zulu land. That mean he is FAFA DAM RAS too. Becareful this kind of comment will put you in kaliti prision.

Please take time ask yourself why I said dictator melese is the main cause of our climate problems for this planet. Atleast he acknowlege the African part, because he took responsiblity started begging for every one in Africa.

The problem we had in Louisiana , Honduras and so on, begging won't solve them. The only way out of these mess and future climate problem dictator has to go. If you do not believe me, ask Al Gore!!

Dictator melese and his evil supporters are the worest person in this planet.

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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
Deme [Visitor]

Ante FELTE FARA YEMECHEHE.
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msg Comment from: Girawa [Visitor]
Addis zemen
"Shintam ye gered lij."
what do you mean by that sir?
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msg Comment from: henok [Visitor]
DEME,

You Make me laugh. By the way, How old are you...1,2 or 122 years old. Your comments are somewhat odd..Are u retarded ?
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 15:52

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msg Comment from: EthioMAN [Visitor]
It is a right all have to say their views, no matter what. People can just express what they agree and disagree with no need to "concern" oneself with how others can and can not, like apple pie or pumpkin, socialism or capitalism, nice legs or boobs. I mean who is anyone to tell another what they should and should like or dislike? I hate meles and his Tplf goons. Does this mean I do not have integrity? Why do I have to like what you like? Why can not this Deme dude say his piece witout being labled crezy... wheather you agree or not it is after all, a free forum in a free country.

Comment from: Concerned [Visitor]
I'm really concerned about the integrity of some people like Deme. Very stupid as that person is, I'm sorry for this individual because this person doesn't seem normal. I suggest that he check with his Psychic doctor before he goes naked.
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 16:01

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msg Comment from: EthioMAN [Visitor]
What a guy... Well, some can in a few words what many can't in a life time of writing.

Here it is again!

Comment from: Agerwedad [Visitor]
So the whole point of the article is that foreign aid has managed to keep the population of Ethiopia alive artificially using funds injected from western donors. One of the top three reasons for sending kids to school also happens to be so that kids recieve food aid rations, Is that really something to be proud of??

Foreign aid has also allowed the Ethiopian regime to be immune to the needs of its people and therefore allowing it to become lax in putting in place suitable policies necessary for the agricultural development of the country e.g. land reform. It should also be noted that Mugabe's Zimbabwe's would also be able to do well if DFID, USAID .... religiously pumped money into it and made up for the government's shortcomings.

It is times like these that I can't help but identify with the assertions of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's that "droughts don't cause famines policies do!!"
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
henok,

I'm glad my comment made you laugh. It means I was telling the truth, nothing but the whole truth. Please do not worry about my age, pick a number you like.

My comments are very even. I do not like odd comments. Odd coments are for crazy people.

If you read comment from EthioMAN, you'll get all the point. Thank God I live here, and not humilated or abused by dictator melese in Addis.

I'm very lucky and blessed to live in this part of the world.
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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
Deme [Visitor]

Eye anchi sewya arife MEDEBERYA neshe.

By the way do you speak Amheric, do you understand what I said above?

This is a friendly question, nothing hostile.
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msg Comment from: Mr. Foo [Visitor]
some people are trying to tell us they know some books( at least the title) by celebrities. :crazy:
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msg Comment from: Helen [Visitor]
Dame

You are scum retarded America ever had. You must forget your medication what happen to you F mother she forget to give you your pill.

Dedbe ya dedbe lege...... their is no medicine in America to heal retarded people like you should go to Ethiopia and have 7/7 ask you mother what it mean.

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msg Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
Girawa, belachew, addis,...

That means a COWARD like you who has no gutt to stand by the comments they made, and coming back in differnt user name. COWARD OLD GOAT.
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
Extraterrestrial,Mr. Foo DictatorLoverHelen,

Extraterrestrial,

The word MEDEBERYA means nothign to me. Google Amharic does not translate either. I'll ask and find out what excatly means. I will take your word for now, it is not a hostile thing.

Mr. Foo,
Please be quite and read Sarah Pailn's book. It is good for your soul. Then keep watching Lou Dobb's if not Rush Lembough is good for you.

DictatorLoverHelen,

Have you finished the book by Carrie Perjean, "I'm still standing". You have to finish this book before you are allowed to got 5th grade.

My mom is here, she does not have to suffer from your master evil melese in Addis.

America is very lucky to have me. I'm very lucky and blessed to live here. You kiss the dictator a###,if you love him this much why do not go there? A dictator lover does not deserve to live here.

America is for someone like me freedom lover and apprciate what I have been blessed.

Your lovely evil dictator melese never allow you to have this kind of dicussion with civilized people like I'm.

No foul language, please. You still speak dictator primitive words. It is very sad all the dictatorLovers speak very low and dispicable language they learned from him. You are not ready for Glen Beck show, you have to finish the book first.

Dictator melese and his evil supporters are the worest person in this planet.
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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
Deme [Visitor]

Good responce.

You use the word dictator very much but, have you ever asked yourself what is dictatorship, can you tell me what is dictatorship? I am thinking you know a lot about this word.
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msg Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
Deme,... the dummy,
I have found a good habesha doctor for you in wash DC. I know you live in N.Virginia, he may be able to help you,take it easy. Keep up on your medication.
Some people are trying to use you for their own agenda by telling you to say bad words about Ethiopia and pm Melese. Watch out don't let anybody use you.
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
Extraterrestrial,

It is an English word. You do not need my help. You can look at it on line or on any dictionary.

Dictator= melese,mengistu,Hitler, Gadafi,Mugabe and so on. For our discussion you can replace any ond of them for word dictator.
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Comment from: Girawa [Visitor]
Addis zemen
"Shintam ye gered lij."
what do you mean by that sir?


Girawa, belachew, addis,...

That means a COWARD like you who has no gutt to stand by the comments they made, and coming back in differnt user name. COWARD OLD GOAT.

well you could just say oops! or it was a typo.
Your name is Addis zemen and you are talking about 'ye gered lije'?

addiszemen
Ordinarily people live and learn. You just live
PermalinkPermalink 11/28/09 @ 19:16

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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
addis zemen,

Could you please explain "habesha doctor"? I hope this is not one of your foul language.

No one use me here, this is USA. The land of the free. The endless possibility. A year ago, we elected Prisident Obama. This kind of staff only a dream in Ethiopia.
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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
Deme [Visitor]

You said you are living in America but your english don't seem like American, have you been in shcool there?
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msg Comment from: Deme [Visitor]
Extraterrestrial,

Through USAids, even your dictator melese learned the English language. Do you think the whole time I was speaking Chinese? In US people also speak Spanish and other languages too.

Since you have not been here in USA, even dictator supporters allowed to go to school here. No discrmination like in Addis.

Who paid for your English class: USaids,UKaids,Canadaids,or Austrialaids?
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msg Comment from: James Kebede [Visitor]
Bearing Haile Selassie's Face, Commoner Claims His Blood

Mekbeb Abebe Welde says he is a son of Emperor Haile Selassie.
By MARC LACEY

Published: April 11, 2005

DDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Mekbeb Abebe Welde is the spitting image of Ethiopia's fallen emperor, Haile Selassie. Mr. Abebe has the same pointy chin, down-turned nose and slight build. When he picks up a cup of macchiato and puts it to his lips, as he did in a local cafe the other day, he does so ever so gracefully, more like a prince than a cabdriver.


But Mr. Abebe, 33, is a cabdriver. He lives a humble life in Ethiopia's crowded capital, scrounging to survive as so many others here do.
Still, Mr. Abebe's friends call him "Prince" and bow down when they see him, deference that stems from more than his resemblance to the emperor. Some here think Mr. Abebe really is a son born out of wedlock to the ruler, who claimed blood ties to the biblical King Solomon.
The monarchy was wiped out in this country in 1975, after the emperor died at age 83, but everyone knows the emperor's official kin. Mr. Abebe, on the other hand, exists in a netherworld, gossiped about, pointed at and subjected at times to angry diatribes about the emperor's misrule but not accepted by the emperor's acknowledged flesh and blood.
Mr. Abebe has petitioned the royal family to recognize him, to no avail. No one seems interested in his offer to undergo a DNA test.
Even if he were welcomed into the family, he would not necessarily win great treasure. The emperor's relatives live well, but most of their vast holdings were long ago seized by the state. He might enjoy prestige among devotees of the emperor, but he would have to suffer scorn from the emperor's many detractors. Mr. Abebe says it is acceptance by blood relations that motivates him, not treasure or acclaim.
Still, it would not be so bad to be able to travel the world, as the emperor's acknowledged relatives do. Mr. Abebe could perhaps go off to some "big name" university to get an education. He might get a big gated home to replace his modest dwelling. As the emperor's son, he could walk into the Sheraton Addis, where the cost of a glass of orange juice exceeds many Ethiopians' daily wage, and afford to quench his thirst.
It is family lore more than anything else that Mr. Abebe offers as evidence of his blood ties. His mother, Almaz Tadesse Goshu, was one of the emperor's many servants. They supposedly had a liaison late in the emperor's tenure, long after his wife had died.
Mr. Abebe says his mother's husband divorced her when he learned the child she was carrying was the emperor's. She died when Mekbeb was 7; he was taken in by a general who had been close to the emperor.
During his one face-to-face encounter with one of the emperor's granddaughters, Mr. Abebe said he disclosed his mother's affair with Selassie. "She said a lot of people show up and say they are sons," he recalled. "She said there was nothing she could do to help me."
One of the few aides to Selassie still around, an elderly butler who works in a palace-turned-museum at Addis Ababa University, seemed stunned when he met Mr. Abebe. With an emotional look, he bowed and shook Mr. Abebe's hand.
But he said only, "The past is the past." Mr. Abebe seemed to take the encounter as an encouraging sign.
The question of blood ties aside, Mr. Abebe has read a great deal about the emperor, who ruled from 1930 until the military ousted him in 1974, and was killed the following year in the basement of one of his palaces and buried like the commonest of men.
Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam took over as head of the new Communist government. He ordered the executions of dozens of members of the royal family and of ministers and generals who served the emperor.
Under Mr. Mengistu's rule, students were taught to despise Selassie. He was a feudal lord, a selfish fool, a tyrant responsible for Ethiopia's woes, they were told.
But Mr. Mengistu's government, too, eventually collapsed. Rebels chased him from the country in 1991 and set up the government that exists today, led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Mr. Zenawi's government is not fond of Selassie either, once labeling him "a tyrant and oppressor of the masses."
It is understandable that Ethiopians are somewhat divided on his legacy. Some dismiss him as a deluded leader who spent national wealth on shrines to himself. Others praise him for the hospitals he built, the palace that he turned into the country's main university and his work at bringing the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union, to Addis Ababa.
"His image has slowly been recovering," said Elizabeth W. Giorgis, acting director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. "He's not known as just a tyrant anymore. Most of the criticism of him is true, but he had another side to him."
It took until 2000 for the emperor's remains to be transferred from a temporary crypt to Holy Trinity Cathedral, placed beside his wife's in a grand ceremony attended by thousands of wailing Ethiopians. Mr. Abebe was in the crowd that day.
Mr. Abebe said he was also on hand in 2003 when thousands gathered at the same church to lay to rest "Princess" Tenagne Worq, who was described as the last surviving child of the emperor. Mr. Abebe said he knew better.


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msg Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
James kebede,..
Very intersting story. I like it.
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Deme [Visitor]

I don't need money to study, education is free in my mother land but, why is that you are running away from the question, have you ever been at school in the USA?

I am your friend asking you friendly question all the time even if sometimes we don't agree and that is normal.
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Extraterrestrial,

I know you are here. Lier big time. Feed your starved belly wthy my tax payer money called USAids.

Where did you go to shool here in USA? Pleas stop booolsiiiitiiig.
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msg Comment from: Alama [Visitor]

Deme

woyanne paid cadres are on you
with out not knowing you are here
representing nearly like the one
previous comment said it 95%of the
Ethiopian peoples mind in the real-
ity they dont even have the major-
ity where they think as strong
hold the only thing they unders-
stand is being wiped out by any
means possible
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msg Comment from: displaced [Visitor]
Mr. Extraterrestrial,

"You said you are living in America but your english don't seem like American, have you been in shcool there?"

YOU are a Hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Tip,
Instead of saying 'you are living' put it as 'You live', then ofcourse do not use plurals with singulars so your sentence should have been 'your English doesn't' instead of 'your english don't'. Then, for America use 'here' instead of 'there'. You must also put 'an' before 'American'. Finally, never forget to spell 'school' properly and use appropriate capitalization like 'English' for 'english' and try to get used to using adverbs like 'ever' for emphasis.

YOU are struggling my friend and you are not cutting it. Silence is better in such situation. Alright.
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