(I-Newswire) - The only truth in the whole statement is only the last phrase that reads Ethiopia is “one of the poorest countries in the developing world”. Today Ethiopia still remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Prime Minister Meles ruled the country for the last 14 years. During this period the number of Ethiopians requiring food assistance tripled from 5 million to 14 million. Yara claims that Ethiopia’s agricultural average growth is 3.6% per annum. All other reliable data show that it was only 1.6 % yearly. It is not only the opponents of Meles Zenawi that dispute the claims of Yara. All data collected by independent researchers and agricultural experts question the validity of the data provided by Yara. In 1990 Ethiopian per capita income was $120. Today after 15 years under the per capita income is only $96. All data show the contrary to Yara’s claims: the living conditions of Ethiopians has rather worsened.

Then why do Yara have to manipulate the facts concerning the democratization process in Ethiopia, the agricultural production, food security and the reduction of poverty in Ethiopia? The answer is simple. Yara is the biggest fertilizer business partner of Meles Zenawi’s government. Yara by its own advertisement is one of the leading fertilizer producers in the world. It sells fertilizers worth billions of dollars, and Meles Zenawi is a client. In Meles Zenawi’s Ethiopia fertilizer sale is 100 % monopolized by ruling party ( EPRDF ) affiliated fertilizer selling companies .All other companies that were in the fertilizer market were forced out of the market. An Ethiopian farmer who lives from hand to mouth has no choice but to purchase the fertilizer at the exorbitant price from the sole supplier. To add insult to injury, a farmer can be thrown into jail if he cannot pay back the debt. This is only the tip of the ice berg of the corrupt practices of those party –owned fertilizer companies.

One cannot believe that Board members of major European corporation are not aware of the human rights situation in Ethiopia. Meles Zenawi has the worst record of atrocities and gross human rights violations of any current African leader. All known and respected human rights organizations regularly report these shameful facts which are indigestible only to Yara Foundation’s Board members.

According to human rights reports, there are 15, 000 political prisoners in today’s Ethiopia. In the wake of the post-election protests over massive electoral fraud, the Meles Zenawi government by its own account admitted incarcerating up to 5,000 protesters


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Zerihun, M. Adam
telefon +47 41509453
Oslo,Norway

Minalebet sewatch lela sra btseru. Already Meles has won the prize. Try to work hard like Meles and get a prize in your respective disciplines. It is like the saying "Amlakie yegadegnie hulet aynotch lematfat yenewa and atfalgn".

Email: Debalkie@hotmail.com

City: WDC

debalki teretesh moteshal!

Email: getahun123@gmail.com

City: oslo

CWS emergency appeal: Ethiopia food insecurityAccount: 640-X

Appeal amount: $300,000

SITUATION:

Erratic and poorly distributed rainfall in the 2004 planting season, lack of infrastructure, inability to recover from previous crop failures, and years of economic decline have all contributed to the conditions of acute malnutrition now plaguing Ethiopia. Approximately 3.8 million of the country's 47 million inhabitants are at risk of starvation.

Food shortages are expected to become increasingly more critical in the coming months and the number of at-risk persons could double. Women and children are the most vulnerable, while migrating men and their livestock are both succumbing to weakness in isolated areas.

CWS RESPONSE:

Through February 2006, CWS will support the work of partner and Action By Churches Together (ACT) member Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus -- Development and Social Services Commission (EECMY-DASSC). The group is coordinating direct assistance to 103,967 persons through its area synods and local partners. Project implementation includes, food relief and agricultural rehabilitation inputs, medical assistance, and veterinarian care to ailing livestock, in 14 Woredas or districts in four regions of the country.

EECMY-DASSC will coordinate purchase, storage, and distribution of:

- 9,475 tons of cereal

- 954 tons of supplementary food mix

- 421 tons of seed (variety, purchased in country)

- 20,797 sets of hand tools (three tools per household)

Due to the gravity of the situation and the need to respond quickly, CWS encourages immediate support for this appeal -- Ethiopia Food Insecurity (Acct. #640-X)). The appeal goal is $300,000 in support of the targeted initial funding request from ACT (ref. AFET51) for $4,900,572.

Details regarding specific budget items are available upon request.

Contributions to support Ethiopia Food Insecurity may be sent to your denomination or directly to:

Church World Service
India (Maharashtra) Flood Response (Acct. #6977)
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515
Contributions may also be made by credit card by calling: (800) 297-1516, ext. 222, or online at www.churchworldservice.org.

Email: walexmz@yahoo.co.uk

City: oslo

Debalkie,'Siyamrsh yikr engi' No Yara price for meles!!!Do you have a share??

Email: zewditu@rogers.com

City: Toronto

Moderator,please close this forum,it get us no where since EPRDF paid cadres still blinded by truth.

Email: DillingerJ1@aol.com

City: DC

Cadres of Melese not getting what they use to in thier Embassy abroads the reasons?we Americans are squzzing George troat to free the social security some of us invested.

Email: DillingerJ1@aol.com

City: DC

Hailegnaw, Do not worry,
who ever is ant-Yara commitee member whether shabia or who ever is in the commitee we do not care yara price is still wrong, for the wrong person we still are ant-yara.

City: Toronto

The funny thing is he is making money and get commision from yara because he is bying their sheet and sell to for the moost poor nation on the planet the poor peopel of ethiopia and yara know him he is purchaser of that misken Ager.

Email: aba11715@yahoo.com

City: texas

The people of Norway,
This is one of the many criminal acts comitted by your very first Yara green award winner against Ethiopia.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has warned that his country faces a famine worse than that of 1984 which killed nearly one million people and sparked a big international relief effort.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the BBC that some six million people already needed food aid and the number facing starvation could rise to 15 million early in the new year if international donors did not come to the country's aid.

Meles said

If [the 1984 famine] was a nightmare, then this will be too ghastly to contemplate

Meles Zenawi,
Ethiopian PM

He predicted that the number of people who could be hit as a result of the new drought might be three times the number affected during the earlier famine.

as i said it is one of the thousands. are you happy with your action? Congratulation. The Ethiopian 75 million people have many friends especially God. Your profit motive to prize a criminal leader who took power by force after 17 years Gurilla war will never overshadow the truth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2440093.stm

Email: Gimma@hotmail.com

Hi,

Yara is trying to be smart by legitimatizing illegal profit sharing of 200,000$ with Meles & co. If they're realy concerned, why not make a debt relief to the very farmers who're burdened by fertilizer payment imposed by Meles & co?

Do not be surprized if their next candidate for the prize will be Hitler!

What a shame?

bye

City: Canada

wogenoche,

'LeHodam Bere chid yazletal'. Meles is Hodam and therefore he always wants to eat. Be it by selling Ethiopia, anyone related to him or anything for that matter. He wants to get something out of nothing. That's why he smells 'Genzeb' and goes wherever it takes him. Mind you, he kills as long as he gets 'Tirf' out of it. AFTER ALL, THAT'S WHAT HE DOES WHEN SLAUGHTERING INNOCENT ETHIOPIANS. JUST TO CONTINUE TO BE IN POWER AND GET PAID.

Email: genbiw@yahoo.com

City: Wales

Despite the tireless efforts by the Stop Yara award campign Meles Zenawi have recieved the prize. What amazes me most is those who were on the demonstration were Ogaden Liberation sympatizers, the Shabias and the Somalis

Email: haile#hotmaol.com

Dear compatriots,

It should not surprise us that Yara went ahead with its decision to give the prize to the tyrant. The final action was to be expected in my view. But, the work of the Stop-Yara-Award Committee was undeniably a success. It has exposed the evil deeds of Meles and his junta to the entire world. It has rendered the credibility of the group in world politics highly questionable. This is a loss of collosal magnitude, and they know it; they feel the pain. Meles's reputation is so badly tainted that he will probably never recover from the wound. I think that is the biggest achievement of such a protest. Thus the crux of the matter is not whether Meles took the money or not. After all, $200,000 is a peanut for Meles and Co compared with what the Mafiosos have been plundering. However, they have lost heavily what they have aspired to gain, namely the political advantage. No doubt also that they will continue loosing. So, I would say well done to the Stop-Yara-Award Committee. This type of struggle has to continue until all the evil deeds of these blood suckers are exposed naked to the peace-loving world.

City: A.A

The saying goes as follows "If the poor was not to drink butter on his dream, he/she would have dried up anight". The same is true with "Anti-Yara committe and co.".
The dog continues barking while the camel has no time to listen to the uninteruppted cries of his fellow dog. Meles and the EPRDF has no time to spend a minute with the jobless and hopeless CUD leaders, members and supporters. If the battle field was on the internet you would have been victrious by simply lying without stopping.

You see while you are barking like the dog the Dollar 200,000 is already asigned for helping fellow Ethiopians. EPRDF and its supporters are not suspected working for fulling their Belly.
Who else then? I refer you to the talks of the late Prof Asrat

Email: Debalkie@hotmail.com

City: WDC

Debalkie,

I thinnk 'Negeru hulu Tedebelalkobhal litdebaliq sitmokir'. Do you know, wusha bebelabet yichohal. Therefore, there is nothing new about your comment in support of Meles. God knows how much your share is.
It could be in cash or in kind.~)

What I would like to tell you is, don't ever mention that he got the money because he helped poor Ethiopians. He has never helped them.

One thing you don't realise is 'Money cannot buy the credibility. He lost his integrity and credibility(if at all he had one in the first place). No one will trust him anymore. Even the Norwegian politicians boycotted the event because they don't want to be seen with him. No one greeted him at the airport. Because no one see him as an important person . He attended the event because the money was for him. Would he attend if the money was to go to Ethiopian farmer? NO.

Therefore, even Yara committee knows that he likes money more than his name or postition. For Norwegians, $200,000 is not a lot of money. But for the GREEDY Meles, it is. That's why, he went to attend the ceremoney and get paid 'Aynun BeChew Atibo.

Email: genbiw@yahoo.com

City: Wales

Can any one tell me the numbers of demonstrators in oslo against Yara award. Because i read a conflicting report in Ethiopian newspapers. Is it 50-80 or 1200?

Thanx

Email: blacklion77@gmail.com

City: Dubai

Habeshaw,

Are you just waking up after days of sleep? The number is around 1200.

oh

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