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Ethiopia: The Meles Zenawi foundation

By Teklu Abate The Ethiopian regime has launched the Meles Zenawi foundation following its April 6 Congress at the AU Hall here in the capital. The foundation constitutes a library, a research center, a fellowship programme, and a public park, … read more »

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Ethiopia: Demeke Mekonen stole the show at the lavish state funeral accorded to Bereket’s mom

Ethiopia: Demeke Mekonen stole the show at the lavish state funeral accorded to Bereket’s mom. *Is he eying the PM’s post? (By Getahune Bekele, South Africa) One of the main collaborators and loyal disciples of the genocidal minority Tigre Junta, … read more »

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Ethiopia: Meles Foundation Launched

Government of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) The inaugural meeting of Meles Foundation opened this morning (March 6) at the African Union Hall. The meeting is attended by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, President Ismail Omar Guelleh … read more »

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Sudan and South Sudan pledge $3 million for Ethiopia’s Zenawi foundation

The two Sudans have pledged a combined $3 million in support of the Meles Foundation, established in honour of Ethiopia’s the late prime minister, Meles Zenawi and officially launched on Saturday in a ceremony held at the African Union (AU) … read more »

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Ethiopia: EPRDF’s ethnic policy imperils the goal of AU

By Robele Ababya,  Unity of Ethiopia is paramount The EPRDF regime is killing, arbitrarily arresting and encouraging ethnic cleansing; therefore an all-inclusive struggle in self-defense is morally and legally justified. The Amharas and Oromos are the main victims of such … read more »

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Ethiopia: EPRDF Delegates Unhappy With Meles Eulogy

Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa) Delegates of the ninth convention of the ruling EPRDF party have shown their dissatisfaction over a eulogy written for their late leader, Meles Zenawi, while some were critical of the quality of its writing and completeness … read more »

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Meles was a poor man who had no bank account – Azeb Mesfin

By Addis Fortune Editor’s Note – Azeb Mesfin, the widow of Meles Zenawi, said her husband’s net salary was 4,000 Birr a month, too little money that he had no need for a bank account. Azeb was mad that such … read more »

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Ethiopia: Tigray economics and Ethiopian politics

By Teklu Abate During the last two decades, Tigray has occupied the minds of Ethiopians. That EPRDF’s (the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Party) creator, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), is native to Tigray explains all the discourses. Ordinary conversations, … read more »

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Ethiopia: No Surprises, Couple of Changes At the TPLF

Addis Fortune Concluding its ninth convention, the senior partner in the ruling coalition, TPLF has elevated for the first time since its formation, a woman to its political bureau, making two of the nine politbureau members women, Fortune learnt. Tirfu … read more »

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“Super spy Debretsion Gebremicael is my father’s worst nightmare.” Johanna Hailemariam confeses

(By Getahune Bekele, South Africa) First she was enraptured by the magnificence of the official residence of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. But now she curses the day they moved in there. She started by Watching her father, Prime Minister … read more »

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Deadly Ethnic rivalry, substance abuse and booze tearing the late Zenawi’s family apart

(By Getahune Bekele-South Africa) This was how the dead tyrant L.Zenawi raised ‘his’ daughter. Semehal Meles Zenawi not only grew up attentively listening to her ‘ father’s’ anti-Amharic and anti-Ethiopia marathon speeches, but also watched him killing thousands of Amharas … read more »

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Ethiopia’s new leadership is practising hero-worship

DURING his two decades running Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi almost single-handedly engineered its rise from lost cause to model pupil. Even his enemies admit he was both popular and competent. Often working around the clock, he could make complex policy choices … read more »

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Ethiopia: Endemic corruption ending the EPRDF rule?

Robele Ababya, Emulating the Pakistani uprising against corruption  This piece is prompted by the recent development of crisis in Pakistan where “Pakistan‘s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the country’s prime minister on corruption charges, heightening the already extreme … read more »

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Ethiopia: Ethnocracy in the name of ethnic federalism

By Yohannes Berhe In the first part of my commentaries, The future of democracy in Ethiopia, I presented some of the potential threat to the stability of our country as a result of a sudden turn of events. Further, I … read more »

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Ethiopia: With the death of Meles Zenawi, the power of Adwa elite is buried for good

Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia‘s prime minister for 17 years from 1995-2012 has taken the short lived power held by him and by his comrades from Adwa for good to the grave when he died in August of 2012.Currently no Adwa Tigrian … read more »

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Frantic skuif deur TPLF Christene en Moslems te verdeel

Deur Robele Ababya Ethiopië is een van die eerste lande in die wêreld te aanvaar Christendom in 330 nC die verwelkoming van die koms van die prediking van die Nuwe Testament die Ou Testament wat in plek was te verryk. … read more »

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Aliyejawa hoja na TPLF kwa kupasuliwa Wakristo na Waislamu

Kwa Robele Ababya Ethiopia ni nchi ya kwanza katika dunia kukubali Ukristo katika 330 AD kukaribisha ujio wa kuhubiri Agano Jipya kuimarisha Agano la Kale kwamba alikuwa mahali. Alikuwa pia nchi ya kwanza duniani ambapo Mfalme Mkristo alitoa kimbilio kwa … read more »

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Ethiopia: Late PM Meles Zenawi’s wife relative on “wanted list in Canada”

Meles wife Azeb Mesfin relative on wanted list in Canada Do you know anything about those individuals? Call Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477 The late Ethiopian  Prime Minister’s wife is in the news again, this time not in Ethiopia but Canada. The … read more »

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Scandalous: How Susan Rice’s lewd remark at the late Ethiopian dictator’s funeral caused deadly confrontation

By Getahune Bekele US permanent representative at the UN, Susan Rice arrived in Addis Ababa last September 2012 for warlord Leggese Zenawi’s funeral looking rather butch and motion less like the statue of liberty, clearly mired in deep sorrow. The … read more »

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“Ethiopia’s Great Wealth is its People” – Meles Zenawi

What is the greatest need of the people of Ethiopia?  It helps a great deal and makes things clear, if we state clearly and know what we are trying to solve, and the issues we are concerned about and trying … read more »

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The Ethiopian Air Lines Saga By Berhane Kidane

Since its inception, the Ethiopian Air Lines has been the pride of all Ethiopians. The Ethiopian Airlines is one of the best Air Lines in the world. Its employees do not just consider their job as a place where they … read more »

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Ethiopia: How Long Should Azeb Mesfin Stay in the Palace?

By Seble Teweldebirhan Addis Ababa,(Ezega.com) – This week, the former First Lady Azeb Mesfin was a topic of controversy in the country. The fact that after nearly two months of the death of her husband Meles Zenawi, she still lives … read more »

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Ethiopia: Former PM Meles Zenawi widow ‘refusing to vacate palace’

The powerful widow of former prime minister Meles Zenawi is reportedly stalling on vacating Ethiopia’s national palace for the country’s new leader and his family. According to government sources, Mrs Azeb Mesfin has ignored instructions to move to a new … read more »

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Kill abject poverty in Ethiopia

By Robele Ababya Abject poverty which the TPLF has perpetrated for the last 21 years has all along been its effective weapon as a slogan to obliterate it, but in actual fact to perpetrate it through the adoption of wrong … read more »

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The “Great successor” ordered ethnic Wolytas to wear sackcloth and perform ancient mourning rituals for Zenawi…

By Getahune Bekele The man who was  told by the TPLF junta not to get closer to the prime ministers’ office during Zenawis’ long absence, now dubbed by the same warlords the great successor, Deputy PM and Foreign minister  Hailemariam … read more »

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Ethiopia’s ruling Agame junta to stage a North Korean style mock funeral for the late tyrant, Meles Zenawi

By Getahune Bekele The tiresome pedagogue and pathological liar of the highest echelon, The scheming Bereket Simeon, who until recently insisted that Zenawi will be back before September, is once again planning to deceive the world by staging a well … read more »

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Tigres start evacuating as Zenawi sneaked out of the country for cancer Treatment

By Getahune Bekele The withering and dying tyrant, Leggese Zenawi of Ethiopia is back in Belgium    for the third time in less than two months. He is expected to receive yet another extensive cancer treatment. The cold-blooded murderer who stole … read more »

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HIV – AIDS at the center of discussions of the general assembly of the Organisation of African First Ladies (OAFLA)

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 1, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) held its General Assembly, today 30 January 2012, at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme: “An … read more »

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Ethiopia: Occupy Arat Kilo – We are the 99.6%

By Tedla Asfaw We are not 99 like here in America and UK but 99.6. It is also true an average Ethiopian makes a dollar /about 99.6 cent a day back home. The Club of 99.6 are almost all Ethiopians … read more »

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How to bring down Ethiopia PM Meles Zenawi (Part 111)

The winds of change that has been rocking the Arab world have once again confirmed the fact that every tyranny is a house built on sand. Unlike rock solid democratic systems that are built on the consent of the people, … read more »

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