Here is an excerpt from the comment by "Merema," who intelligently links Ethiopia's dam construction (the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam - GERD) with the Minnesota protests:
...there are not too many Amharas in Minnesota. Minnesota is an Oromo stronghold because that’s where Oromo refugees were settled. The Amhara stronghold is Washington DC.VDare links to a site called: The Unz Review, an Alternative Media Selection for comments, which is where Merema posted hers. The Unz Review seems to be the online home of regular VDare contributor Steve Sailer, who also penned the Ethiopia article. All comments are posted at the Unz Review.
The good folks in Minnesota are being inconvenienced because of a conflict that is thousands of years old over the control of the Nile waters. Remember in the Bible when Pharaoh sent an army led by Moses to Nubia because Black people (Nubians) threatened to cut off the Nile’s water supply?
Jawar Mohammed, an Oromo living in Minnesota single-handedly founded the Oromo Media Network with money provided by EGYPT. Egypt is a a key player in all this because they are trying to destabilize Ethiopia. Egypt is panicking because they are loosing control of the Nile- their ONLY source of water. Most of the Nile water originates in the Amhara highlands and Ethiopia is building a HUGE dam. No Nile, no Egypt.
Perhaps VDare should just stop their antagonism towards Ethiopia.
It makes me wonder if VDare's big funders are from the US Jewish community. There is no indication who recently "donated" the hundreds of dollars to VDare. Anonymity must be wonderful! Often, donors are happy to display their name, and their generosity, especially for such noble causes as "patriotism."
What is happening in Ethiopia is not an "emerging civil war" but a repeated cycle of unrest instigated by southern Oromo activists who want to destabilize Ethiopia. It was more of riots by discontent youth goaded by Oromo leaders, such as Jawar Mohamed, who are using them as fighting fronts. Such leaders are willing to have their young men killed in the name of political grievances.
This has been thwarted in part by the jailing of said leaders, the shutdown of the rebel-inciting Oromo Media Network (OMN) broadcast from Minnesota, and other short term measures taken by the Ethiopian government.
Life is basically back to normal in Addis Ababa, and the rest of the country.
One of which is to continue with the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (link is to a recent article on the politics behind the GERD), which "Memera" also discusses (see above).
My theory about the GERD project is that the Egyptians are being aided (even funded) by the Israeli to start conflict and confrontation in the Middle East. Although Ethiopia doesn't qualify as a Middle Eastern country, and is geographically aligned to the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is pretty much an independent region. Hence its dangers to the region. And the Oromo leaders, with their Egyptian counterparts, are trying to destabilize this region, Ethiopia.
The GERD that Ethiopia is constructing is not only a natural, water, resource, but will make Ethiopia a strong regional and political force.
It is not just water that is the question, it is Ethiopia's independence and strength.