The situation at present in Ethiopia.

The colleges, of which there are plenty in Addis Ababa, are becoming watched by the Federali and security apparatus. For a long time these private schools were, in contrast with the government secondary schools and up, left alone. But as I reported earlier, in Nazareth/Adama the Unity College has been closed for a while after problems with Oromo students that ended up in federali invading the campus and beating up the students before arrests were made.

The method is different from the state schools. Two uniformed policemen are sitting just one hundred meters away from the entrance and are observing the students walking to/from the school. But it is obvious because the school I am talking about is on an industrial complex; there is nothing else to watch. Later on somebody I can trust confirmed that at other places the same thing is happening.

People seem to have forgotten what happened if you observe superficially, but whenever someone says something that could be explained as favorable for the current regime, people knot their brows and shake their head. It is better not done to do so. Even mentioning the Crime Minister is not appreciated. It seems that at many governmental offices the top down commands are changing so often that lots of work can be thrown through the drain, when, without explanation, budgets are altered or withdrawn.

This proves that there is a real budgetary problem, which they are not able to solve.
The375 million dollar from the European Union, which is withdrawn, hurts.
But right they are. Up until political reforms are made, in line with the eight demands, it will not be business as usual. The other thing is that they are capable of spending millions in a war that is about American interests, not Ethiopian ones. They should be punished about that too.

The sad thing is that the poorest people suffer most of it. The protection of basic services which came instead of the direct budget support is useless if the government is creating more poverty by raising food prices to an irresponsible level.
But this is certainly not the first time this regime is nullifying aid and development