ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) — Ethiopia’s [Ministry of Misinformation] on Saturday refuted some foreign media and humanitarian organizations for their exaggerated reports on the current food shortage in pocket areas of the country.
“It is ridiculous and unethical that some media outlets are reporting as if food grain price hike is typical of Ethiopia, though it is known that the existing global price hike is a result of soaring price of oil and ever-increasing demand of food grain among the developing countries,” the Ministry of Information said in a statement.
Such fabricated reports can not undermine Ethiopia’s rapid economic growth registered during the last successive years, said the ministry.
“The rapid national economic growth cannot be undermined by exaggerating minor problems,” it said.
Recent reports from some foreign media said a severe drought in Ethiopia threatens up to 6 million children.
“The reporting of some media is very much exaggerated and far from the truth,” it said.
The government and the public have been striving to ensure the double-digit economic growth the nation registered during the last five consecutive years in order to extricate the country out of poverty, it said.
Though the irregular rainfall witnessed during the last Belg (small rain) season created temporal food shortage in some parts of the country, the government and farmers are striving to boost agricultural production during the remaining time of the current crop season, it added.
The statement said the government is doing its level best toward resolving the existing food shortage witnessed in pocket areas of the nation.
“The problem cannot be out of control,” said the ministry.
5 thoughts on “Info Minister says reports of food shortage fabricated by media”
Woyane the real fabricator of lies from its early inception to its death, is still trying to cheat itself. Eery Ethiopian knows well about it….
The mercenary woyane do not waste time, your time is up!!!!!!!!!
Down with Meles sebhat bereket (mergemt)!!!!!!!!!
The statement of the information misnister sounds familiar-famine time during Haile Selasie and Mengistu’s. Is such condition and denial the end of such regime?
nothing leases life to the dead dispora movement be it man made or natural phenmenon.all cries ranging from teddy afros detention,the land given to sudanese,the skyrocketing food prices,the birth of ginbot7 somewhere in washington through the midwife of the internets,the obamamenia etc wont help the defunct diaspora driven politics.it is high time to think about things that can happen to the frustrated remnants who pretend to exist irrespective of the fact that they are done and no one thinks about their past.all the factors they try to lean to as life saving are not for them.
Woaw! if a man is characterless and analphabetic, it is simple to use words like “ethic” as if it is a simple collection of alphabetic characters.
Chekagn!
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!!!
Ethiopia and Ethiopians have seen the behaviors and actions of TPLF/Woyane for the last thirty years as a gorilla/ terrorist movement and then the last eighteen years as a dictatorial government. From what we have seen and experienced TPLF/Woyane is the most destructive and dangerous enemy of Ethiopia and Ethiopians. There is no one single group or government so dangerous for the survival of our people and our nation. From ceding Eritrea to farm lands to Sudan, from torturing to killing citizens, from raping to imprisoning innocent civilians, from ultimate corruption to manufacturing and perpetuating divisions and violence between citizens it is extremely evil and murderous to its core. It has now embarking on making and perpetuating poverty, disease, and hunger on the whole nation. We are now faced with choosing between life and death. Every passing day brings the whole nation towards death. Finding a solution to avert the death of Ethiopia and Ethiopians is not Mellesse/ TPLF’s priority or interest. For Mellesse and the TPLF/Woyane thugs are the designers and implementers of this catastrophe. To the contrary, it is the responsibility of Ethiopians to find the solution and breaking the yoke of death imposed by the TPLF/Woyane. We need to find the solution and break this yoke now before it is too late.