EDITOR’S NOTE: Half of that might be from child prostitution, and the profit goes to the pockets of Meles, Sebhat, Azeb and other leaders of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne).
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia Woyanne hopes to boost tourism earnings 15 percent to $200 million this year, the government the tribal regime said on Wednesday.
“Tourist flow into Ethiopia has shown a marked improvement over the last five years,” said Solomon Ali, head of public relations at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
“That is due to publicity campaigns aimed at changing the country’s image from the stereotypical picture of famine and war to a nation of ancient history and culture.” [Currently Ethiopia is free from starvation. People are eating 5 times a day.]
Solomon said Ethiopia hopes to attract 400,000 tourists this year, up from 340,000 in 2007 when it earned $170 million.
The country hopes to trade on its reputation as the cradle of humankind, and the government has invested heavily in hotels, airports and other infrastructure to lure visitors.
Much of the focus has been on historic sites in the north, which include the obelisks at Axum — reputed to be the home of the Biblical Queen of Sheba — the stunning rock-hewn churches of Lalibella and several ancient castles.
Many tourists also visit Afar in the far northeast of the country to see the site where “Lucy”, the fossilised bones of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid, was discovered.
Solomon said Lucy’s remains were currently on a six-year tour of museums in the United States, and officials hoped this would create more interest in Ethiopia. Some Ethiopians, however, worry that the fragile bones may not survive the tour.
(Report by Tsegaye Tadesse. Writing by Daniel Wallis, editing by Mary Gabriel — just copying statements that are given to them by propaganda chief Bereket Simon.)
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Elias! the other half is coming from the 5000+ NGOs staffers who are daring ONLY to have 12-15 years old boys/girls for personal pleasures. People this is not about being weyanes haters but some of the diplomats children are video taping some of their encounters with the beautiful Ethiopian chilren and are now sharing it with their friends for their entertainment purposes. Wake up people weyanes are not only promoting hate and ethnic divisions in Ethiopia or in the region but HIV and other sexual transmitted diseases are spreading faster than the weyanes demise. God save Ethiopia and the entire region from the modern slaves of Africa!
“We have been extremely impressed with the progress this country has made over the past 17 years,” Kramer said.
Thank you Matti.Let me remind you my sister one who pimp A dead woman 3.2 million years old,he will never care for little girls and boys.We have a morale obligation to expose this blood hound bastards.
Weyane was aiming to earn a million of dollars in the name of millennium, however with the help of many medias expose the goal of weyane was not to be achieved, as a result there were not a lot of Ethiopians and others did not go to the millennium fest that was organized by weyane to make a huge amount of money. In addition to that according to close sources weyane has sold the original lucy for millions of dollars and weyane will bring a fake replacement of lucy that was made of humans to silent the public. As Elias described the tourist income is majorly from Arabian people who are coming to Ethiopia to find beautiful Ethiopian women that are highly damaged by the weyane created poverty, and forcefully selling their own body for survival purposes. It is weyane’s bad governance policy that had left the majority of our beloved women to become prostitution. As one of a friend of mine who just got back from Ethiopia after vacation told me that, even now days most men would love to do prostitution if things would allow them, since the majority of the Ethiopian people are living in a barley situation eating once a day that is restricted to one bread and a cup of tea. At the same time he told me that weyane has hired so many secret service ( DEDEB GORO TEBI) throughout the country. Actually, the numbers of secret service are almost equivalent to the public in all over the country. If you want to go out for a coffee in Ethiopia with two people, there would be two other secret people who will be surrounding you. In general the weyane illegitimate mafia is highly scared, so they try to restore their power using all means. Especially , after the formation of Ginbot 7 weyane’s fear is extremely reaches to the saturation point. As a result weyane keep arresting and harassing many thousands of Ethiopians everyday. Almost the people in Ethiopia is very very tired of the unaffordable life along with the cruelly measures of weyane undemocratic behavior.
By the way weyane plans to gain and earn money by any means, however the majority of the money would be directly going to the pockets of meles syetanawi families and relatives, along with the members of the weyane officials, and some of the money goes to the weyane mouthpiece HODAM cadres and the remaining money will be used to reinforce theweyane secret service and weyane agazi army, the meles seytanwi private squad.
Death to weyane members and supporters
GO AND SEE IN ADDIS HOW THEY USE YOUNG BOY NOT ONLY GIRLS