The people pushed out of Ethiopia’s fertile farmland

BBC: The construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia and the introduction of large-scale agricultural businesses has been controversial - finding out what local people think can be hard, but with the help of a bottle of rum nothing is impossible. After waiting several weeks for letters of permission from various Ethiopian ministries, I begin my road trip into the country's southern lowlands. I want to investigate the government's controversial plan to take over vast swathes of ancestral land, home to......

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