Home and Ethiopia update
It's funny how 5 days in the USA will erase any memory of the world outside of this little bubble. I still find it hard to believe that there aren't beggars on every corner, my house is the size of my hotel, and everyone around me is faranji . The latest news coming from Ethiopia is good, bad, and weird. After sentencing 38 main opposition party leaders to life in prison on monday for their role in inciting election violence in 2005, the government reversed the court's orders and released all 38 convicted ( link ). Continuing their (justifiable) crusade against Ethiopia, the NY Times is running an article about how the gov. is blocking food aid from reaching the rebel region near Somalia - sounds like the famines of the 1970's all over again ( see Mengistu ). Will keep updating on this but things look like they are slowly slipping out of control...hopefully PM Zenawi can right the ship. In news from my fellow americans still in Addis - Meningocele man had succes