Great punchline, but what's the joke?

Ethiopian Airlines will firm up an order for around a dozen A350 jetliners, worth almost $3 billion, at the Dubai Air Show.
The order is expected to bring sales of the future mid-sized, long-range passenger jet above the 500 mark. Airbus has so far sold 493 of the planes, intended to compete with Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. The Boeing model has posted sales of 840 aircraft.
In July, the planemaker said Ethiopian Airlines had signed a provisional deal to buy twelve Airbus A350-900 planes. If confirmed, such a deal would be worth $2.9 billion at list prices.
Rico says is this the same Ethiopia that can't feed all it's people? Nice to see they have their priorities in the right place...