[dehai-news] (National Post) Ethiopia must be made accountable


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From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2008 - 15:54:32 EDT


http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=672900
 
National Post | Canadian News, Financial News And Opinion
 
Ethiopia must be made accountable

Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
 
Point, July 18.
 
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs'
July 16 review, "aid operations in Somalia will cost $641-million this
year." The UN food agency is also "urgently" seeking $250-million to
"avert a major food crisis" in neighbouring Ethiopia.
 
As sobering as the situations in Somalia and Ethiopia are, there is
understandable donor fatigue toward aiding countries such as Ethiopia.
Here is a country that every year faces famine, and yet its government
has embarked on a disastrous war against its neighbour, with little
consideration of the costs to its own population. Ethiopia is spending
millions on a war it surely couldn't afford were it not for the kind
generosity of Western donors (Canada, for example, gives Ethiopia about
$100-million of non-emergency aid annually).
 
The Ethiopian government has essentially abdicated its responsibility to
feed its own people, with Western donors left to look after the millions
of Ethiopians faced with starvation. It is time that Western donors put
an end to this dependency and start demanding accountability from a
country that is addicted to aid.
 
Safi Asmerom, Ottawa.
 
 
 
 

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