Luxury | May 12, 2010 Foreign aid subsidizes repression in Ethiopia AllAfrica blog | May 12, 2010 Meles Zenawi, who has kept Ethiopia in the “Famine Cycle” since he grabbed power in 1991, attempts to lecture on how agricultural productivity could be used to stimulate economic growth. But his audacity didn’t escape the attention of a Malawian farmer, who saw his country turning from food-aid dependency to a food-exporting nation since policy change over the last five years. Watch how the ruthless tyrant from Ethiopia masquerades as if he is leading a country and people free from hunger and want. Man arrested for allegedly smuggling khat into U.S. ‘Violence against foreigners after Cup’