More Peasants to Be Moved in Ethiopia
From Reuters
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia —
The Ethiopian government plans to move 3 million more peasants into new villages next year, Premier Fikre-Selassie Wogderess said on Friday.
Fikre-Selassie told the committee promoting the country’s village program that by the end of 1988, almost four years after the program began, the authorities will have resettled 31% of Ethiopians, or about 14.3 million people.
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