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House cleaning or window dressing? By Alemayehu G Mariam -  Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and how to collect nickels and dimes to build it. That kind of played itself out. (Not to worry. That circus will be back in town. The public has the attention span of a gold fish. So they think.)  It’s time to change the flavor of the month. Time for a new game, a new hype. How about “corruption”? It’s a chic topic. The World Bank is talking about it. Everybody is talking about it. Even the corrupt are talking about corruption. Imagine kleptocrats calling corruptocrats corrupt? Or the pot calling the kettle black?    

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William Lloyd George, guardian.co.uk -An independent panel has called for an investigation into a World Bank-funded project in Ethiopia following accusations from refugees that the bank is funding a programme that forced people off their land. 

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On 1 March 2013, Ethiopian government resumed its genocide act in Gok district—Gambela regional state against Anuak people. On Friday at dawn, hundreds of Ethiopia government troops left their barrack where they stationed in Pinyudo town and rolled their heavy artillery vehicles towards Gog Di-paac village and launched an attack against the villagers killing 6 farmers including children and women. Twenty people remained unaccounted for who are presumed dead.  

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By Graham Peebles - With the coming of big industrial farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists are being threatened, intimidated, forcibly displaced and herded into camps by the military, their homes destroyed. Along with vast agricultural complexes, dams are planned and constructed, water supplies redirected to irrigate crops, forests burnt, natural habitats destroyed. Dissenting voices are brutally silenced – men beaten, children frightened, women raped, as is the land.  

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Anyuak Faith Community of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church (AFC) 

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Ladies and Gentlemen,   

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Thousands of Ethiopians are being driven off their ancestral land that the government's selling without their consent to foreign investors buying up vast swathes of farmland, a U.S. watchdog reports.  

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