BOLD NEWS today out of Ethiopia: President Meles Zenawi has declared that “Ethiopia will no longer need food aid by 2015.”
Meles was referring to a “Growth and Transformation” plan seeking to achieve 15 percent economic growth over five years. Ethiopia has increased its agricultural output in recent years, but has not been able to go without food aid. This is certainly a bold claim from a country known for its devastating famine in the 1980s and a country that asked for help feeding 6.2 million people in 2009.
What do you think about THAT, Bob Geldoff?
