The following is translated from French to English. It is taken from a Djiboutian newspaper, La Nation
Djibouti has just been given 5,000 hectares of agricultural land by Ethiopia.
President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has returned to the capital yesterday after a working visit to Ethiopia in 48 hours. The purpose of his stay in Addis Ababa focused on the formal concession of agricultural land with an area of five hectares, from the Ethiopian authorities.
The field, located in Bale in the Oromo region, will be used to grow wheat crop.
The concession is part of a government strategy adopted in 2005 designed to meet the food security of the country. The objective remains more than ever a national priority insofar as the price of basic food commodities have experienced successive increases over the past months.
24 thoughts on “Meles gives large tracts of farm land to Djibouti”
Open auction of Ethiopian Land. Who wants it?
Go G7
Regards,
As long as they don’t hike the port service prices, we are open to any concession they want on the mother land. Anything they want…..
After all we are the one who is suffocating … by creating every possible and impossible conflicts with all our nieghbors…. and for sure we can’t afford any quarrel with the remaining little, former Ethiopian state Djibouty….. we need some outlet to breath some fresh air.
I wish Meles and Co. are run by Windows Operating System that we can undo them to the time we lost our peace and pride.
What??? OH MY GOD, THEY ARE SELLLING OUR LAND AS IF THERE IS NO ONE WHO CARES TO SAY WHY. PLEASE TELL ME, WHY ARE WE LETTING THIS HAPPEN UDER OUR EYE? WHAT WOULD WE TELL OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN? WHAT IS GOING ON WITH US? SINCE WHEN DID WE BECOME SO DOCILE?
Go ahead talk talk talk,my brothers and sisters if have lice on your head the best thing to do is shave it, if you have a moron leader get rid of the son of bitch.There is the best operating system our fathers used called GUTS.No GUTS NO GLORY.
http://www.capitalethiopia.com/archive/2008/july/week3/local_news.htm#1
Presidential investment
By Groum Abate
President Ismael Omar Guelleh of Djibouti is set to invest in the agriculture sector after receiving a large tract of land estimated to be over 7,000 hectares in Bale, Oromia Regional State. The multi-million dollar investment would commence in the next few weeks. The plot is slated for a wheat farm.
The president has also received 20 hectares of land around Sebeta to invest in the booming flower sector, on lease basis.
The president also visited a site of 10,000 sq. meters at Babogaya Lake in Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) town, 45 kilometers South East of Addis Ababa and has received a free title deed for a plot to construct a home.
During the hand over ceremony of the title deed, President Guelleh stated that he expects Bishoftu to be his second home and thanked the town’s mayor for the plot.
Abadula Gemeda, President of the Oromia Regional State presented the title deed to the president on Friday July 18, 2008, at the Air Force Officers Lounge, as well as deeds to the flower and agricultural plots that are both located in the Oromia Regional State.
President Guelleh is here on vacation with his spouse.
The plot that was given for construction of a vacation home used to host a Catholic Mission that was set up 45 years ago.
According to information obtained from Bisoftu town officials, the mission has a plot of over 36 hectares in the town and after negotiations, the mission agreed to return over six hectares of land. The mission head has met and talked with President Guelleh.
The Oromia Regional State President presented as a gift traditional clothes of the Oromo people, to President Guelleh and his wife.
Gifts were also given to the high level delegation that accompanied him during the visit.
Ministers including the Foreign Affairs Minister of Djibouti and others and high level officials accompanied the president.
The president of the Republic of Djibouti also paid a visit at one of the mosques in the town for his Friday Prayers.
President Guelleh has built a 5-storey guest house that is worth 45 million birr in Dire Dawa city, with 60 standardized rooms, which is expected to be functional in the near future. The president was born in 1947 in Dire Dawa city.
President Ismael Omar Guelleh took office on May 8, 1999, after winning an April election that a panel of international observers judged as free and fair. He was overwhelmingly reelected in 2005 after an election that was marred by the opposition’s refusal to participate. Under his guidance, Djibouti is entering a new era, with hopeful signs for democratization and development. The President has committed himself to reaching out to all sectors of Djiboutian society, to transparency, and to modernizing the government to attain economic and social development goals. The 2006 regional and local elections, widely accepted as a positive, multi-party process, were a significant advance.
Warda A. Graham, owner of Wajag Gas and Alemayehu Ketema a well known businessman in the construction business facilitated the investment opportunity.
Then the deal with Egypt reg Tana is true, that the TPLF Mafia have given Egypt full right to Tana.
We are watching the death of Ethiopia.
What next
SUPPORT THE ARM STRUGGLE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
God Save Ethiopia
Gobez, are we waiting until addis ababa is given to someone, I think Meles has given a land to all neighborhood countries including Eriterea, Sudan, now Djibouti, the next one would be Kenya who will take the lands of Moyale Ethiopia and Yirgachefe of Sidama, and if Somalia was strong enough they will take the entire Harerge and Bale, then the next one will be a draw among the neighborhood countries to take Addis Ababa. I cant believe we still say the abesha disappointment expression WEYENE and AREEE, while we have to support opposition parties that are ready to fight weyane. Hey, people don’t get mad now, are you all a member and supporter of opposition? If not, join the fight by supporting Ginbot 7 and UDJ or any other strong party that can knock out weyane from Ethiopia. Setting on our chair and reading Ethiopian’s news don’t make no difference unless we personally be able to participate in the eradication of weyane from weyane. AYEE WEYANE AHUNES TIRE ARUN ARA EKO…..
This guy, Meles, this just trying to get us as many enemies as possible. This is good for him because when he finally jump on his objective of separating Tigray from the rest of Ethiopia, we will enough enemies to fight with and that makes it easy for him.
He will also do something substantial for the rest of Ethiopia to fight with each other…he already has created the base,ethnic politics….
Meles knows that he cannot live in America or Europe. So the best choice he has is to find his future home here in Africa along his types. He knows that some day the people of Ethiopia will throw him away.
No wonder for that rainy day he has to get his future home ready today.
Wait for some time you will soon hear about a more bizarre action done by him.
we are crying about bademe(2 km) but weyane sold our land to sudan and djebuti. where are you ethioians? are we alive in this worled or what? ere goraawe…. ere goraawe…. be eritreaweyan wendemochachen lay bezu alen ahunes? dedeboch
Lucky to be a neighbor to a country without protector! They are getting all they want without firing one bullet. There may come a time when situations would be reversed.
Death to the traitor Meles Zenawi and his criminal regime.
Meles gives 2,000 hectares of farm land to Djibouti
O my GOD!!! ESKEMECHAE NEW YEMINTAGESACHEW LEMIN KE G7 GAR BEGARA ANTAGELIM GOBEZ
ADDIS ABABA, July 22 (Reuters) – Land-locked Ethiopia has given Djiboutian President Omar Ismail Guelleh large tracts of land for wheat farming and a lakeside holiday home, officials said on Tuesday.
The Red Sea state has been Ethiopia’s major outlet to the sea since Addis Ababa lost the ports of Assab and Massawa when Eritrea won independence in 1991.
Ethiopia gave Guelleh 7,000 hectares of land some 400 km (250 miles) south of Addis Ababa, where government officials say he will grow wheat.
“A team of experts has already started preliminary work to set up a modern and mechanized farm,” said the officials, who spoke on the condition on anonymity.
Guelleh, who was in Ethiopia last week with his wife and a ministerial delegation, was also given 10,000 square metres of lakeside land some 45 km (30 miles) east of the capital on which to build a holiday home, the officials said.
Guelleh already owns a $5 million presidential residence in Ethiopia’s eastern town of Dire Dawa, they said.
Djibouti’s port earns about $300 million a year from handling some 4.6 million tonnes of Ethiopian goods, and recently said it would raise its tariffs on port services, prompting Ethiopia to send its trade minister to Djibouti.
The next is Yemen, Kenya Zimababwe, Niegria. I think the next news will be Meles threw Ethiopian land to the Indian ocean. We are ready to believe anything woyane does.
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That is how TPLF do a favor to his neibouring countries to protect the oppositions not be able to mobilize power against the regime.
We need to stop this in any price we need to pay. Ethiopia would be in a worst situation more than ever if we don’t react against them.
Death to TPLF
Comment #7 (Hagos Araya)
I don’t know if you have the Tigre disease (inferiority complex). And stop stating an erroneous statement. Since when and where did Meles give Eritrea any Ethiopian land? As a matter of fact Meles has stolen Eritrean land and his army is sitting on it. You see one should be able to call a spade – a spade – One of the reasons of the existing misunderstanding of our two neighborly people is the fantasy and make belief stories the successive Ethiopian regimes have been telling us. Otherwise, I am pretty sure that the Eritrean people wouldn’t have to go all the hardship to attain the independence which was stolen by Haile Selasie. By the way, please watch how you spell “Eritrea”.
Weqaw,
what are you talking about? Eritrea it self belongs to Ethiopia. if this news for you go hang yourself. Just to let you know, there is no misunderstanding about this issue. giving away our land is not acceptable in any shape of form. Meles has an obligation to protect and save guard the country that belongs to some 70 million people. Ethiopia is not for sell and he can not give any part of her to any foreign country that includes Eritrea. in addition, knowing how Eritrean suffer in the hand of the same people who promised them freedom and wealth, it was the big mistake in their part to seek their independent. because all they got was pain and suffering.
The big question is: can Ethiopia reclaim all the land donated to these neighbouring countries once these illegitimate rulers are thrown in the dust bin of history?
the trible tplf gentry runs the country as his private property – and those that toil on the land as his surfs. The traitor and his tplf bandas will pay for all their blunders in the last 18 years and none of them will get away – they will be chased through out the world even if takes years – they will be plucked from their hiding places and pay for their crime –
That is the last stage of the founding of the nation of tigray. The last stage of the tplf agenda. First take power and weaken the Ethiopian nationalism. Then give land to all neighboring countries to make sure that any opposition is not welcomed anywhere. Then grab more land from Wollo, Afar and Gonder for even super, duper greater tigray and leave some land in the rest of Ethiopia so that the rest of us can kill each other.
i wish they can go with their tigray to another continent and leave us alone.
Meles and his co-workers (mercenary groups) are to feed their neighbors by donating fertile land for agriculture while 20% of Ethiopians are in severe hunger. This is generational genocide.
Dani (comment # 18)
I did not say Ethiopia was for sale. That would be as silly as claiming Eritrea as being part of Ethiopia by some Ethiopian political zealots! You see dani, if you really care about Ethiopia, wake up and deal with reality – not some fancy dreams. It does not do you anygood to state that Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia etc were part of “Ethiopia” when they are not. But, your constant agitation from the confort behind your PC could creat some animosity between the sisterly nations of the Horn. If you like to see Ethiopia as intact as I like to see, then stop this unachievable bravado and really you must respect the wishes and desires of all our neigbours. Otherwise, “yeqwaTun awerd bla, yebebetewan Taletch” endayhonbh negeru engi yefelegkewn betelefelf enye gdn yelegnm!
The Djibouti government has in the past handed many innocent Ethiopians including members of the armed forces to the Woyanne regime. Their whereabouts are unknown, but to those of us familiar with the methods of the murderous regime, the fate of the our innocent citizens is not a secret.