The opportunity to do a masters degree on the Universities of Ethiopia will be in the hands of the EPRDF/TPLF and no longer will the intellectual abilities of the candidate be decisive, but the loyalty to the party. It is a further step to totalitarianism and it proves again that the Marxist Leninist way of thinking, which was the basic principle of the TPLF, has never been gone. The discussion about academic freedom is already far behind us.

The inflation during the year 2000 has reached 116% measured as at the eleventh of September. And in various magazines and papers, a raise in inflation is mentioned too. The figures differ from 33 to 50%, so telling the truth and measuring themselves is probably politically to dangerous.
Just like telling that millions of Ethiopians are starving from hunger. Only the ferenji aid organizations can tell what is really going on.

Shamelessly the mafia gang is proclaiming one success after the other, while the common people are impoverished. And what they have always been very good at, is blaming anyone but themselves. Global economy, raising food prices, raising fuel prices, it is all to blame, while the so called economic successes are the result of their brilliant policies.
The fact that the whole country is floating on aid and dubious loans (for instance the telecom sector), is never stipulated by them.

The new busses that were bought in China are already starting to crumble. Their engine is just not powerful enough for the roads in Addis Ababa and the high altitude of the capital (at an average
2.250m up to abt 3.000m). Most of them are now producing black smoke and the already heavy air pollution in the city is only getting worse. These are direct consequences of the flirtation of the gang with their political peers in China.