Addis Ababa Based Brit News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

News photo
Active duty: Young Nic (right) on patrol while serving as a Game Warden in the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia in the late 1960s. The man on the left, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, was Assistant Warden Mesfin Abebe, and the two men behind were local vigilantes who joined us in pursuit of illegal loggers. C.W. NICOL PHOTOS
OLD NIC S NOTEBOOK
Reflections on feelings and farmland born of an exciting time spent serving Haile Selassie
By C.W. NICOL
On March 15 just gone, this newspaper carried an excellent but disturbing article by John Vidal, environment editor of the London-based Guardian newspaper. He wrote about food shortages and land-grabbing in Africa, and I was particularly troubled to read about deals going on to sell Ethiopian land to foreign investors. In the article, an Ethiopian government spokesperson was quoted as saying that Ethiopia has 74 million hectares of fertile land, of which only 15 percent is currently in use main ....

Simien Mountains , Addis Ababa , Mesfin Abebe , Haile Selassie , John Vidal , Tanzanian College Of Wildlife Management , Land Rover , Negarit Gazeta , Simien Mountain National Park , Young Nic , Game Warden , Assistant Warden Mesfin Abebe , London Based Guardian , Senior Game Warden John Blower , His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie , Addis Ababa Based Brit , Tanzanian College , Wildlife Management , Eritrean Liberation Front , Coptic Christians , Arab Muslims , ஆலங்கட்டி ஸெலாஸீ , ஜான் விடல் , நில சுற்று , இளம் நிக் , விளையாட்டு வார்டன் ,