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Drought and the resultant famines reduced agricultural productivity seriously. Despite strong pressure from international organizations, the Mengestu regime took no significant steps to deemphasize collectivization. Movement of peasants from drought-stricken regions to more fertile locations was useful in some cases, but villagization and resettlement were done without sufficient planning. In the late 1980s Mengestu began to attend to World Bank suggestions Page 15 relating to pricing, offering incentives to farmers to grow more food.

The Ethiopian viceroy of the colony in Yemen in the sixth century. He is credited with building a great church at San'a (present capital of Yemen) and for leading an expedition against Mecca in 570. Muslim tradition recalls that this attempt to challenge the religious and mercantile supremacy of the Prophet's home town was ''miraculously'' defeated. ABU ANJA. Mahdist general whose forces defeated Tekle Haymanot's army in January 1888, then ravaged Gondar. Despite this, Yohannes IV appealed to him and the Khalifa to help him repel the Italians later in the year.

Food production during the 1979-88 period declined from almost 200 kg per capita to less than 125 kg per capita. On 5 March 1990, Mengestu proposed to replace the central planning system with a free-market economypartly in response to events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Peasants would be allowed to obtain legal title to their land and the right to sell their produce on the open market. These changes are proceeding under the TGE. AHMAD IBN-IBRAHIM. See Islamic Conquest. AIR FORCE. As regent, Ras Teferi Mekonnen hired two French pilots in 1929 and bought four biplanes from France; these had mounts for machine guns and were capable of small-bomb drops.

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