... about the appalling poverty and starvation in Ethiopia (118). Toward the end, he tried to build dams on the Nile and sought international business to build factories in Addis Ababa (130). Fortunately for Ethiopia, these bandages of remedy could not stop the internal bleeding of Selassie's regime. Thus, the accumulation of his rotten government's characteristics, his own policies of greed-self ... to construct dams that could be used to flood areas of unfertile soil and drain it to create harvestable land (130). The idea was but a pipe dream. He did not have the capital, the engineers, o...

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