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The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, 21 June 2010.
‘While they [were] openly critical of the elections, [donors] never put into question the pursuit of their aid. Following the 2005 elections they had suspended part of it, only to reinstate it and even increase it a few months later, with just a change to its distribution network’ (Lefort Citation2010).
Another diaspora blog, Ethiopian News and Opinion Journal Citation(2009) reported that Azeb Mesfin was appointed Deputy CEO of the Endowment Fund for Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT), a conglomerate consisting of over 60 companies. The businesses controlled by EFFORT are said to include Mesfin Industrial Engineering, Sur Construction, Addis Pharmaceutical Factory (APF), Almeda Textiles Factory, Express Transit Service Plc (EXTRAN), Ethiopian Experience Travel (EET), Ezana Mining Development (EMD), Guna Trading House, Hiwot Agricultural Mechanization, Saba Dimensional Stones (SDS), Sheba Tannery Factory, and Trans Ethiopia.
During a meeting on 31 January 2010, in Addis Ababa, between Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero and Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian ruler is reported in a confidential cable to have stated: ‘Meles said his country's inability to develop a strong democracy was not due to insufficient understanding of democratic principles, but rather because Ethiopians had not internalized those principles’.
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO 2011), some 44% of Ethiopia's population of approximately 79 million is undernourished, a situation further illustrated statistically by a new index, the Multidimensional Poverty Index, according to which Ethiopia ranks second last, just ahead of Niger (Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, 2010).