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Ethiopia, 30 years after the famine

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By David Smith in Addis Ababa Three decades after images that shocked the world, country has become darling of the global development community - and the scourge of the human rights lobby With an Einsteinian shock of hair and a wise man's beard, Mulugeta Tesfakiros, just off a flight from Washington, settled into an office of glass walls and vibrant artworks in Addis Ababa. The millionaire magnate, who has gone into the local wine business with Bob Geldof, mused on the new Ethiopia: "Most of the people need first security, second food a and democracy after that."


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