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Quote: Ethiopia gives Djibouti's Guelleh farmland-officials Source: Reuters ADDIS ABABA, July 22 (Reuters) - Land-locked Ethiopia has given Djiboutian President Omar Ismail Guelleh large tracts of land for wheat farming and a lakeside holiday home, officials said on Tuesday. The Red Sea state has been Ethiopia's major outlet to the sea since Addis Ababa lost the ports of Assab and Massawa when Eritrea won independence in 1991. Ethiopia gave Guelleh 7,000 hectares of land some 400 km (250 miles) south of Addis Ababa, where government officials say he will grow wheat. "A team of experts has already started preliminary work to set up a modern and mechanized farm," said the officials, who spoke on the condition on anonymity. Guelleh, who was in Ethiopia last week with his wife and a ministerial delegation, was also given 10,000 square metres of lakeside land some 45 km (30 miles) east of the capital on which to build a holiday home, the officials said. Guelleh already owns a $5 million presidential residence in Ethiopia's eastern town of Dire Dawa, they said. Djibouti's port earns about $300 million a year from handling some 4.6 million tonnes of Ethiopian goods, and recently said it would raise its tariffs on port services, prompting Ethiopia to send its trade minister to Djibouti. Last month Djibouti accused Eritrea, which is also at loggerheads with Ethiopia, of starting clashes on their border in which 12 Djiboutian soldiers were killed and 55 wounded. Eritrea denied its troops had crossed the border and rejected Western criticism that it had started the fighting. -------------

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Quote: African leaders in Ethiopia land grab Land management course by Mekelle University, Ethiopia Land management course in Ethiopia © Mekelle Univ/afrol News afrol News, 28 January - Several African leaders have bought lands in Ethiopia to develop agricultural projects or tourism resorts. They are let to bypass a 2007 ban on export of cereals, still in place for other investors. It has earlier been known that former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasansjo and current Djiboutian President Ismael Omar Guelleh privately have bought up large properties in Ethiopia. Also the Egyptian Prime Minister managed to buy large agricultural land tracts in Ethiopia on behalf of his government. However, a US Embassy cable from February last year, released by Wikileaks today, indicates that several of these underreported deals operate in the grey zone of Ethiopian legislation. Following a food crisis in 2007, Ethiopia "temporarily" banned all exports of cereals. The ban has never been formally lifted. Still, both the Egyptian government project and Djiboutian President Guelleh have been allowed to export cereals cultivated on the lands sold to them by the Ethiopian government. "It appears Saudi, Djiboutian, and now Egyptian investors have somehow bypassed this ban," the US Embassy report from Addis Ababa said. Meanwhile other investors had informed Embassy staff "that they have not been allowed to export cereal grains." President Guelleh recently acquired the right to develop about 2.5 acres of lakeside land in Debrezeit to build a hotel. This acquisition added to the 7,400 acres of farmland Mr Guelleh leased in 2009 in Bale, Oromia region. "According to post's conversations with local agricultural business investors and press reports, this farm has already harvested wheat and other cereals for export to Djibouti," the report said. The Egyptians had followed the same path, according to the official US source. Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, heading a large top-end delegation, last year announced that the state-owned National Bank of Egypt planned to invest US$ 40 million in the lease of 49,400 acres of land in the Afar region to grow cereals. Also these cereals "would be exported to Egypt," it was noted. The US diplomat also noted that the Egyptian National Bank also was "poised to open an office in Ethiopia" and to offer credits to six Ethiopian banks. But, the domestic banking sector is closed to foreign banks. "It is unclear how the National Bank of Egypt could offer credit in Ethiopia in evident violation of banking and financial regulations," the US Ambassador notes. Other recent major investors in Ethiopian agricultural land had included the South African private equity fund Agri-Vie. The company had acquired 3,000 acres of land and company was last year already in the process of establishing fruit production and processing operations. The company was to target the juice markets in Europe and the Middle East. Among the most prominent investors in Ethiopian lands was Nigerian ex-President Obasanjo, whose actions were keenly followed by US Embassy staff, the report reveals. Mr Obasanjo had "recently leased about five acres of land near Debrezeit, Oromia region (about 50 kilometres east of Addis Ababa) to develop a hotel and tourist destination," the report said. The US Ambassador also discussed the criticism against the land grab in Ethiopia, with several claiming it would further jeopardise the critical food security situation in the country. He however agrees with Ethiopian authorities that a commercialisation of the agricultural sector and foreign investment were necessary. Nevertheless, he commented that Ethiopia's new land lease policy was "a long way from proving its worth as a vehicle" for the national economy. It was not "generating foreign exchange reserves" at a larger level, indicating the prices achieved in the deals brokered by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi himself were too low. By staff writer © afrol News