The chigaram (beggar) regime in Ethiopia and its poverty-monger partners request $67.7 million for food. Is the money really to buy food? Didn’t Meles last week say his agricultural policy has been successful?
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Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
NEW YORK — The Ethiopian government and its humanitarian partners yesterday announced that a total of $67,737,459 is required to fund the country’s humanitarian response to the effects of the prevailing drought.
An estimated 2.2 million people are in need of emergency food assistance following inadequate rainfall in some parts of the country during the 2007 meher rainy season, which runs from June to October. In addition, about 947,000 vulnerable people will continue to receive assistance under the country’s Productive Safety Nets Programme – a relief-to-development project initiated by the government in 2005 in an attempt to end dependency on food aid.
Most of those affected by the effects of the dry weather conditions live in the Somali, the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s State (SNNP), Tigray and Oromia Regions.
‘Conditions in Ethiopia have improved since the beginning of the year. Nevertheless humanitarian situations of various kinds remain of great concern to all of us,’ said Vincent Lelei, head of OCHA, Ethiopia, speaking in Addis Ababa the launch of the Joint Government and Humanitarian Partners’ 2008 Humanitarian Requirement Plan.
‘The continued collaboration by all humanitarian actors in Ethiopia for the benefit of the most vulnerable in the country is highly appreciated, and we look forward to strengthening this collaboration,’ Mr. Lelei added.
The total food aid requirement for those in need is estimated at about 171,646 metric tonnes. Particular attention will also be paid to health and nutrition, water and sanitation, and agriculture to help address the adverse impact of the drought.
Drought in the Horn of Africa is also expected to lead to reduced crop harvests Djibouti, Eritrea, Djibouti, northern parts of Kenya and south-central Somalia.
For further information, please call:
Stephanie Bunker, OCHA-New York, +1 917 367 5126, mobile +1 917 892 1679;
John Nyaga, OCHA-NY, + 1 917 367 9262;
Elisabeth Byrs, OCHA-Geneva, +41 22 917 2653, mobile, +41 79 473 4570.
OCHA press releases are available at http://ochaonline.un.org or www.reliefweb.int.
8 thoughts on “Woyanne chigarams beg for $67 million to buy food”
We know this $67 million is not going to get the Ethiopian people out of their chronic chigar or dhnet (poverty).
Most Ethiopians under Meles Seitanawi’s regime need some outside help and this $67 million is not enough to feed 80 million Ethiopians, and America must come up with at least $67 billion to feed the 80 million Ethiopians since America is deeply involved in Ethiopia as it is in Iraq and in Israel than in any other country. By the way, do we Ethiopians in the diaspora have also the right to share part of this money? We may have some needy Ethiopians in Washington, D.C. and in Chicago, and most of us pay taxes to the United States government; I think it is a legitimate question that needs satisfactory and honest answer.
17 years in power and still begging for handouts from “donor” nations, these “donor” nations don’t give leftover food for charity, they will only give it to ther puppets to prop them up. Woyanne has been doing this every year of their reign, I remember them getting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of food aid from “donor” nations when they were preparing for war against the Eritrean people and now they are killing, maiming and starving the rest of Ethiopia and Somalia and are begging for food at the same time.
This time they need the donated food to feed their military so they can fight the freedom fighters all over Ethiopia and Somalia and also to confront the Eritrean defense force which will kick them out the illegally occupied territory at anytime in the near future.
These “donor” nations refused to give Eritrea when it needed food aid about a decade ago, if they cared about people starving that was the time to help, the Eritrean people and government paitiently worked hard and are on the verge of total food sufficiency and will produce a surplus that will definitely help our brotherly people of the horn learn from Eritrea’s experience and be able to be self sufficient in the future.
Yeweyane neger giramiyagaba new.Siltan lay lemekoyet sibal bicha bemiyawetaw alasfelagi expense(police,joro,to make people party memeber……etc)yethiopian hizb wedemaiwetaw yenuro widenet ketot siabeka ahun degimo yegeterun hizb berihab yaregifew teyayizotal.Ahunim yemigermew chigirun wede lela sostegna wogen lemazore yemiaregew mukera new “Sigibgib Negadewoch”.Lehulum Gize Alew.
where is weyane’s economic growth? weyanes have been begging for the last years. It is up USA to feed the ethiopia’s people as far as USA has been involving in internal affairs of ethiopia’s people by supporting weyanes to terrorize the peaceloving pppl of ethiopia.
As much as the Woyanes wronge doings and Historical vendeta on Ethiopian people angered us or frustrate us please dont let them take away our “Ethiopiawi Chewanet”.And we should not be like them and need to be careful when we address the public.We dont want raise woyane style generation.
kkkkkkkkkkkkk Elias astaws bedro yarese berie yelem . weyane zarie chigaram adelum :: enesu mech chigaram honuna : bale billion dollar habtamoch adelum ? egnan chigar bechigar aderegunna: zariem endetnantu besimachin eyafiezu yilemnalu ! besmachin eyetemetsadequ endilemnuln : embi blew beferenjochu gibreaberochachew le hulet werat yakl silemenu edeqoyu tawqu yihon?
wechew gud zendro zendom melak hono yasqedsal qomo .
every time when i read your articles they make me sick. Let me tell you this, becoming against the ruling party and against the country are two different things. If you can’t differentiate these, please stop spoiling the peoples’ mind.
Ethiopians have never been happy with their life since the arrival of the tplfwoyanae looters and murderers. During his brutal rule as the chief boss of the crimefamily, Meles Naziawi systematically drove Ethiopians to the bottom of poverty and starvation. So far, the record shows that members of the crimefamily have reached the top of the list as the wealthest criminals in the globe.
He is now in a NEPAD meeting to fool the rest. What is going on well in the life of members of the crimefamily?
They don’t care about the rest of the citizens except begging the west for food and weapons. Recently, members of the crimefamily denounced the shabiya boss, Isaias Afework for sending them, what members called the outlaws to bomb things and human beings;but so far, no reply to alegation from a one time partner in destructon that Isaias Afework .
when, nobody knows but the drum of war is gently pounded on both sides of the river bank while more than 100,000 combatants are still on a combat alertness since the last battle where many died and a lot had been destroyed.
Every three months,members of the crimefamily celeberate on the accumelation of their wealth both overseas and inside Ethiopia. Everything is in their looting hands. The room is full of wine , liquer, beer, and guns and bullets; the bank is full of money with the stolen money from the public and the country; their heart is full of sour blood and their mind is twisted and bad.
Mebers of the crimefamily and their criminal associates are no good for the well-being of the present and future generations because they are wasting human, social, and natural capital of Ethiopia. They must be removed from the surface of Ethiopia.