by Flemming Funch
According to The Guardian, the multi-national coffee and chocolate corporation Nestle is demanding a payment of $6m from the government of the world's poorest country, Ethiopia, which is in the middle of the worst famine in nearly 20 years. The money would be compensation for an Ethiopian business which was nationalized in 1975 by a previous military government. To put it in context, $6m could feed 1 million Ethiopians for a month. Nestle didn't even own that company, but years later they bought a German company, which used to have majority shares in it.
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