By Beles
According to Internet Worlds Statistics, Internet usage in Ethiopia is the lowest in Africa and the world.
While countries in Africa and around the world enjoy unprecedented growth in information technology (IT) and telecoms growth and reaping the benefits, Ethiopians are thrown in to dark ages by a regime that is terrified of free flow of information between the people of the country.
In this competitive world the actions of the Meles Zenawi’s regime is arresting the development of generation of Ethiopians by depriving them the necessary tools to succeed in the 21st century.
In Somalia, a country that has no functioning goverment, Internet usage is higher than in Ethiopia.
The person who is in charge of suppressing the growth of information technology in Ethiopia is DebreTsion GebreMichael, chairman of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, who is Meles Zenawi’s right hand man and a member of the ruling Tigray People Liberation Front (Woyanne).
An illiterate care of the ruling Woyanne, DebreTsion’s primary duty as the head of ETC is to make sure that the people of Ethiopia have as little access as possible to information technology such as the Internet.
Greenland 92.3%
Netherlands 90.1%
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Morocco 21.3%
South Africa 11.6%
Zimbabwe 10.9
Nigeria 10%
Egypt 8.6%
Sudan 3.7%
Kenya 3.0%
Equatorial Guinea 1.3%
Somalia 1.0%
Mali 0.8%
Ethiopia 0.4%
Source: Internet World Stats
(Edited by Elias Kifle)