From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Sep 24 2009 - 14:10:14 EDT
State of Eritrea - Ministry of Information
The Discredited Entertain Fantasy Dreams
By Staff
Sep 23, 2009, 20:00
In line with the well-known practice of disseminating distorted and
erroneous information as well as figures, certain international
organizations are echoing reports that serious famine is hovering over
large portion of the Horn of Africa, including Eritrea this year due to
drought and insufficient rains.
Regarding Eritrea in particular, such a report is not only baseless but
also incorporates distorted information. As such, the attempt to include
Eritrea in the list is but a manifestation of fantasy dreams entertained
by discredited parties.
The facts on the ground prove that compared to other parts of the Horn
region, there so far exists no serious food shortage in Eritrea. And
contrary to the aforementioned distorted accounts, the 2009 rainy season
was relatively better in this country. Besides, thanks to the Eritrean
government's major national campaign towards achieving food security on
the basis of the self-reliance principle, various micro-dams have been
constructed in different parts of the country, thus effectively
conserving and utilizing the rain waters. Hence, Eritrea's capacity to
raise agricultural productivity continues to gain momentum from year to
year. The Government is also making substantial investment to introduce
modern technology and up-to-date agricultural machineries so as to
further boost output.
As a result of the concerted endeavors made by the people and Government
of Eritrea, the country not only managed to overcome last year's threat
of famine but has also laid the necessary ground present for avoiding
undue dependence on rain-fed agriculture.
This being the truth, it is quite obvious that such reports are merely
an extension of the continuing political smear campaign against Eritrea.
However, it should be noted at this juncture that the dissemination of
distorted and unsubstantiated information aimed at misleading the
international community constitutes an illegal practice, the
perpetrators of which will be held accountable.
The BBC's Arabic program is one of those which disseminated the
aforementioned baseless information. At the time when the Eritrean
Ministry of Information sought to respond to the unsubstantiated
information, the reply given by the said media organization was: "we
will give the chance to respond only if it is in tune with the
information we had broadcast." This amply proves that its continued
anti-Eritrea campaign is not due to the lack of information but a
deliberate act. However, it is not overly surprising to hear such
allegations on the part of a broadcasting organization that claims the
'prevalence' of a 44-degree centigrade temperature in Asmara, while the
city was experiencing heavy summer rains.
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