Last week we heard from a U.S. official, Assistant Secretary of State Michele Bond, that this year 2,200 Ethiopian children were imported to the U.S. on adoption. They were sold by the adoption agencies in Ethiopia that are affiliated with Meles Zenawi’s wife Jezebel Mesfin at $30,000 each. Yesterday, it was reported that Meles Zenawi’s regime sold an Indian company 765,000 hectares of fertile land in Ethiopia to grow crops and export them to India. All the while, millions of people in Ethiopia have nothing to eat. Today, it is reported that the Meles junta has sold gold mines in western Ethiopia that contain 40 tonnes of gold deposit to a Saudi company that is owned by Ethiopian billionaire Al Amoudi. In order to extract the gold, they had to wipe out the population in the area first. Ethiopian women are being sold into slavery in Arab countries. Meles and Jezebel are selling every thing in Ethiopia and when they run out of things to sell, they will implement article 39 and take off for the Republic of Tigray.
The following is a report by Reuters about Woyanne-Saudi gold extraction deal.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia signed a deal on Tuesday for a Saudi firm to extract an estimated 20 tonnes of recoverable gold found in the Horn of African country last month, the mines and energy minister said.
Two firms — Saudi Arabia’s Midroc Gold Co. and Britain’s Golden Prospecting Mining Co. — discovered deposits estimated to contain more than 40 tonnes of gold last month and applied for extraction licences.
“We will sign an extraction agreement with the Saudi company today,” Minister for Mines and Energy, Alemayehu Tegenu, told Reuters in an interview, adding it would be mined over 11 years.
“We hope to sign an agreement with the British company next year,” he said.
The minister said Sakaro, a mining company wholly-owned by Midroc Gold Co., discovered an estimated 20 tonnes in the Lege-Dembi gold belt. Midroc is owned by Ethiopian-born Saudi business tycoon Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi.
Golden Prospecting Mining’s find of about 23 tonnes is in western Ethiopia.
Under the terms of the deal, Ethiopia gets 5 percent of royalties, takes 2 percent equity and will charge 35 percent tax. The extraction licence expires once 20 tonnes of gold has been extracted.
The Ethiopian government says it has identified possible reserves of up to 500 tonnes in different regions.
The country now makes $105 million a year from gold exports and that could double when Midroc starts its extraction, Alemayehu said.
The Horn of Africa nation has made $450.5 million from about 48 tonnes of gold exports in the last 10 years, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia.
4 thoughts on “Ethiopia on sale: children, land, gold, oil…”
Dear to all Ethiopians and Ethiopian friends, why are you guys look at this as a news? This has been happening for a wile and she is not the only one doing it. It has been a business for a lot of people. When I was telling people this thing is really happing, no one will believe me and even some of our people do not even know what adoption is. This makes me sick to think that people are using a source of income by closing the opportunity of the needy children who needed to be adopted. This is not the only thing what makes me sad, but also the people who gave their kids and their family members. For some reason, they think that “they will have a better life in the USA”. let me tell you, I am not making this things up or saying what I think, I know for fact and the kids who come through that kinds of processes are the one who suffer the most by fighting with their adopted parent and ended up not even finishing school. They always said they want to go back to their home country and live with their parents. Kids do talk if you allow them and that is what American family do. Kids are 1st and they will be giving the chance to talk about anything they want. So, what I wan to say to Ethiopian people is, instead of blaming some one, why don’t you start form local place where you can stop letting our kids be sold to a place they don’t know what it is. It might be true that the USA is better, but the only time it will be is when the kids have some support for some one who understand their language, culture, school system, and others. I came to the conclusion that, Ethiopian kids are well aware of who they are and what they can become than the adults. What kinds of time are we living at? Why blame the country when you are the one who makes what the country to be? You know America is where it is at because they do any kinds of jobs and things as a country. Us, we wait for some one to do it and when we find that person, we call them “laba” and instead you send you own child to some were where no one there for them. I can go on and on because I can’t help it. Please stop giving your or someone’s child to a person like her and others there are out there.
Selem M’aza, I don’t know what your experience with International Adoption is, however, the words you write and the picture that is painted with them is not 100% accurate, nor true. My family adopted our child from Ethiopia. We did not “buy” her nor “purchase” her. We “adopted” her just as many in my family have been “adopted”.
Although I would love to live in Ethiopa, we live in America because that is where life has taken us to be rooted and planted for the time being.
We celebrate our child’s life by telling her the truth about who she is and why it was that she was adopted. We don’t cast judgement for the reason she was relinquished, we just celebrate her life by giving thanks to our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus for her life.
We are also raising her to look forward to the times (plural here)of returning to Ethiopia to serve and be of service with any blessings she has been given, not out of guilt, but out of obediance to our Heavenly Father as it is His will.
Lastly, she is surrounded by many in our community who also Ethiopian. America has lots of Proud Ethiopians who take pride and joy in helping to raise our child the “Ethiopia-way”, and we purposely have made sure that she as well as ourselves, know the history of Ethiopia, starting with being recognized in the Bible New Testament.
I can’t speak for every adoption, nor can I speak on the issue with Ms. Mesfin. All I can speak on is that not all children, Ethiopian jewels, are experiencing what you write about, so please, let your words be choosen carefully for truth. Respectfully written by Kedest’s Mom.
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God Save Our Country!!
As you saved as from all our enemies before.
To Kedest’s Mom, you do realize that M’aza is referring to the reality of the foreign adoption situation in Ethiopia. Let’s be honest, you might be a good parent to your adoptive child, but you represent a mere 0.1% of the success story. Most of these adopted kids face many challenges such as identity issues, language disparities, and even abuse. Reality is they are disconnected from their African home-land, the family and it’s ties. You live in the States right? Then so how do you understand the true realities of life in Ethiopia? No matter how hard you try to surround your family with an Ethiopian community and try to teach your child his/her ethiopian culture, until he or she is in touch with the his/her home-land, then will he/she fully understand her tradition. All you are ignoring the fact that in the US there are a lot of racial issues. How then do you plan of teaching you adopted child to understand that? Can you walk in his/her shoes? Are you encouraging him/her to go back to Ethiopia? This is something you can not give her. In part it’s selfish of you to disconnect him/her from his/her culture in hopes she will be adoptive to yours. Why don’t you adopt kids in the US there are so many in need…
But speaking in fairness, the blame is not you. The blame is on those Ethiopian’s communities that give away their kids not realizing that they taking away their identity, ultimately their freedom. I mean it’s not like life is impossible in Ethiopia, infact after much research and experience one will find life to be just as difficult in the US. Don’t be fooled by the media and all their mayhams, life in the US, most of the US is rural america, i.e like the villages of the US, these people are poor. Listen not everywhere in the US is New York, or California, or Las Vegas. Even in the major state capital Washington DC there is vast evidence of poverty, and you know what most of the poor people are minorities, i.e Blacks, Latinos, and Asia. The US has a lot of issues, just like all countries of the world. Nowhere is perfect, so the life struggle will exist both in the US and in Ethiopia, eventhough the challenges vary in dynamics.
I think there needs to be a clear and concise awareness of the child adoption situation in Ethiopia, and communities need to be educated so they don’t permit people to adopt their children. Keepig in mind that the US isn’t the only country involved, people from all over the world adopted children from Ethiopia.
Matila
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