Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects of ‘Land to the Grabbers’ Policy

Tuji Jidda Though I haven’t seen, I assume that the newly implemented ‘land for Grabbers’ policy is an extension of Ethiopia’s a combined Investment policy, agriculture-led industrial development policy and export-oriented trade and industrial policy. As such, there is no problem with providing arable lands to foreign investors per say. However, concerns come from the perception that ‘countries have been on a quest for the ultimate ‘breadbasket’ of grains to feed their growing population and to combat world wide rising food prices’.

Unite My People: Liberty, Equality, and Freedom, or DEATH

By Ziyad Kadir* By my people I mean; you, your sisters, your brothers, families, friends, clan, tribe, ethnic group and all of you – the dwellers of these vast place called mother Earth. Liberty is individuals’ right to live on earth and act according to their will. Equality is the state of being equal irrespective of age, gender, social status, color, or other markers of our uniqueness