The health and whereabouts of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi have become a subject of much speculation. The situation appears to border on panic, especially among regime loyalists. Addis Fortune, an otherwise compliant pro-government business publication chimes in with its own concerns.
Addis Fortune, July 8, 2012
Not surprisingly, and for obvious reasons, the health and well-being of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi have been the subject of intense discussion among members of the public. This came following photos released recently while he was in Mexico, where he was attending a summit by leaders of the group of 20 major economies (G20), and subsequent TV footage showing him receiving Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia’s transitional government.
In both images that the public was exposed to, it was clear that the Prime Minister had lost weight and visibly. With speculations wide and persistent, the source of his weight loss was thought by many to be due to failing health.
Such a public perception was only fed by his absence from the public’s view over the past two weeks and was intensified because Parliament has still not gone on recess for the summer, even although the country’s official fiscal year came to an end on Saturday, July 8, 2012. What Parliament was, rather, scheduled to discuss on this day was issues such as approving the minutes from its 43rd session, ratifying a bill on national IDs, and giving recognition to a team of surgeons who successfully conducted an unusual surgery on a child.
MPs have yet to accomplish two of the most important tasks in the year. Listening to the Prime Minister’s address to Parliament on the state of the federation during the just-concluded fiscal year and voting on his report as well as ratifying the federal budget’s bill for the fiscal year that just began, which was approved by the Council of Ministers four weeks ago. Gossip sees that neither of these can take place in the absence of the Prime Minister, indeed, unless, of course, there is a situation that dictates otherwise.
At the heart of all of this lies the issue of whether there is a health challenge that Meles is facing that prohibits him from conducting his official duties. The administration, through its spokesperson, Shimelis Kemal, state minister for the Government Communications Affairs Office, vehemently denied rumours that the Prime Minister has been ill. Some close to the Prime Minister have similar views and attribute his recent loss of weight to a diet that he might have started lately.
Coincidentally, it was at a time of such uncertainty that senior officials at the Ministry of Finance & Economic Development (MoFED) instructed, last week, a recall of letters copied to various federal offices in relation to settling medical bills paid on behalf of the Prime Minister, gossip claims. Meles was in London last year for an official visit, where he had a routine check-up, claims gossip.
The way that such bills get settled through the bureaucratic paper trail is for the Prime Minister’s Office to write a letter of request to the MoFED, upon which the latter transfers the funds to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), which actually undertakes the payment, according to gossip. Such was what the Prime Minister’s Office did to see that the medical bills for the London check-up were settled almost a year after, gossip claims. Accordingly, the guys at the MoFED have already transferred the money to the foreign office, disclosed gossip.
Nonetheless, for reasons not explained, the paper trails circulating within the various federal agencies in order to process the request have been recalled, claims gossip. A couple of days last week were spent on such an effort, fueling a new cycle of speculations on the well-being of the Prime Minister, according to gossip.
It looks like there is a lot more that the administration’s spin-doctors need to do on the public relations front to reassure an otherwise alarmed bureaucracy and public, before the grapevine spins things out of control, those at the gossip corridors agree.
No doubt that he has been outside of the country much of last week; whether that was for recovery due to exhaustion – and for skipping a couple of checkups last year – or something else, gossip disclosed. Nonetheless, some at the diplomatic corridor claim that he is now in a very good health, expected to have been back to Addis Abeba on Saturday night.
If, indeed, the Prime Minister was sick and is now recovering, there should be no reason to keep the public in the dark about the health of their leader, many at the gossip corridor agree.
73 thoughts on “Rumors about Meles Zenawi’s health engulf Addis”
Nothing is wrong with him. He may have taken his dieting chores to the extreme on . He still can kick ass!!! This is a person who can make any ailment dying sick. He is a Great Healer and where is in the world a Healer like him get sick? He is the Methuselah of our times. He has a long way to go. Dream on! Dream on all you 9th Street loafers!!!
Jegnaw replies:
July 10th, 2012 at 9:25 PM
Tekle the termite
May be Tekle if you suck his blood like leches you may suck the Leukemia redden blood out of him and he may just survive extra few minutes but in the end Meless will be fumigated by his Owen Leukemia Cancer, getting killing by cancer, what kind of end is this?
Tekle at the end all of you TPLF get the same faith will be wiped out Ethiopia all together…
Tekle replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Mr. Jegnaw!!! You pompous you!! You think if you call yourself Jegnaw it will instantly make you a Jegna. What poor soul!! Remember they are talking about the most intelligent African ever lived – PM Meles. He is so intelligent that when they put his intelligence on the IQ meter, it shattered after registering the reading ‘To be continued’!!! How about that? You are so dumb that you can’t even correctly express your opinion. Just look at how you construct your sentences in English – ‘getting killing’. Which school did you go to? If I were you, I swear, I would stop talking and writing and let everyone of those 9th Street loafers think you are mute. I think President Obama should funnel the entire education fund just to make you learn English composition from scratch. Jegnaw!!! What a joke you are!!! As the old saying goes “መልከ ጥፉ በስም ይደግፉ”. This is the last time I am going to respond to you door knob. Like I said before you and I don’t match in that you have no class!!!! Kibbles ‘n Bits!! Kibbles ‘n Bits!!! Beat it!!!
Jegnaw replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 7:33 PM
@Tekle
Tekle the termite i am your pest controller so call me to fumigate your entire House. hill i will do for free so call me .
And remember my little termite you are also the village idiot in ER..
and you don’t have to respond to me.i will respond to your a$$.whenever i fell like it.until you go back to whichever termite hole you cam from.for all i know it could DEDEBIT…
Asmerom Tewelde Micheal,stholm ,Sweden replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 4:56 AM
Teckle Terati wedi Aduwa;
Meles is dead already but what about you after his death?I will never feget you Teckle and you will deserve what you did for Ethiopians.
Sol replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 7:24 PM
Asmerom Hawey take it easy. You sound like you are holding a graudge. Are you one of those unlucky few people who got deported and still want to go back. You don’t have to wish any body’s death. Don’t you know that Ethiopians have allowed you to go back and live so long you do respect the the laws of the country and respect the host country.
Don’t forget me too.
Tee replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 6:24 PM
His rapid weight loss is a red flag, anyway you slice it; especially coming on the heels of G-8-Abebe-Gelaw event followed by a hospital visit in Europe.
Whereas I don’t wish terminal illness on my worst enemies, something has gone awry here.
(I think we know how to put two and two together.)
I am disturbed by your “he still can kick behind” comment.
Are you proud of his human rights records and the fact that he’s single-handedly land locked and impoverished our country? Not to mention protests crushed, dissent stifled, journalists and opposition politicians imprisoned on trumped-up charges, all so that he can cling to power? Do any of these concern you?
Your, “He is a Great Healer” comment is deeply offensive!
You are deifying an ordinary tyrant!
Tekle replies:
July 13th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Tee,
Here is my problem with your comment regarding the country being land-locked. PM Meles did not do that. Remember that EPLF fighters had already liberated 99.9% of Eritrea and Derg soldiers in Asmara were deserting in droves most of them giving up fighting. So for all intents and purposes, EPLF had already defeated the Derg army before our fighters entered Addis. That country was land-locked for most of its history. So what is the problem? The other part of your comment I disagree is where you said that our people are impoverished because of that. The fact is that they are not impoverished but are getting out of poverty by the hour and they will join the middle income people by 2025. Our National Democratic Revolution is working to the last letter. The speed of development is so blinding it will give you a strong dose of vertigo. Please don’t try to watch that speed. You will get dazed!!!!!
Hiwet replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 10:33 PM
He lost weight not because of what he has been eating, but because of what it has been eating him inside. Anyway one fact is true – he is going to hell sooner or later, and the last 21 years will be remembered as the “Zemene Diablos” in the history of Ethiopia. What a waste of life!
gobabet replies:
July 14th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Melese will be healed! But he will be different, very different Melese.!!!HE WILL ACCEPT CHRIST AND BOW DOWN TO HIM AS HIS LORD AND MASTER.
The woyane mafia and their cadres are in confusion like a lost child. These brain dead cadres who only take orders look totally dead knowing that they have no hope without their master.
Dear Ethiopians,
This is really the danger of one man rule. If something goes wrong, there is the possibility he or she take down everything down with him or with her. The secret behind keep quiet is because the man is not loved by the public at large. His die hard supporters do not have the confidence to tell the public. If Meles was loved by the public, the public could have even prayed for him to recovery which I believe helps for if a person has faith. Meles is above God and above the public. May be he has his own hidden God where he prays? who? may be the sun or moon?
But one way or another, this is awake up call to die hard woyanes who has stiff-headedly refused to listen to the public in for the past 21 years. It is good to do what the public wanted than to hang everything on one man rule. Assuming, he recover, this must give a wake up call that the pulbic has never been happy about this man. This man has to listen to his citizen to serving foreigners as messenger boy and selling the entire country piece by piece.
Nightmare replies:
July 10th, 2012 at 8:19 PM
Halafi, you are an idiot. Get a job.
Addisu replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Dear Nightmare,
Gezaee H., Halafi Mengedi, etc. has a job. He is a TPLF cadre and his job is to confuse people here and there. He works 16 hours a day surfing the web, visiting different websites even if his main assignment is here in ethiopianreview. He earns overtime for the extra hours of work. He has earned the title of cadre of the year in 2011, and he wants to keep this title in the current year. He earns more than you all guys writing here earn, there is plenty of money in the TPLF pockets looted from the poor. And nobody forgets that in the past few years more than 8 billion U.S. dollars left the country in an illicit manner. So there is enough money to pay the TPLF cadres and spys. The cadres and spys of the TPLF outnumber the civil servants in Ethiopia. So guys leave him alone, he is doing his job – that is what he do for living.
The Ethiopian replies:
July 10th, 2012 at 9:07 PM
You keep on using both side of your mouth to S…t and eat with it as the same time.you are so confused you don’t know what is up what down.but thanks GOD to Elias Kifle you could spew your garbage on us daily cos of freedom of speech.
Anonymous replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 7:46 AM
Gezaee,
Do you have a drinking problem or some kind of health problem? You seem to wobble here and there. At least stay your ground, either you hate evil or you don’t, period!
kem replies:
July 13th, 2012 at 7:38 AM
his God was the Dragon.No more prayer he has to go!
He is just doing fine wait and see.
jim replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
i dont hate Meles, i dislike his policy.
He is dead!
Perhaps high level weyanes are fighting eachother for power internaly or trying escape out of Ethiopia. They know for sure meles is done. We deserve better this mosters.
Asfaw replies:
July 13th, 2012 at 8:09 AM
@Hiwet
You have been dreaming for the last 21 years still hoping you dream will come true.
Ethiopia Tikdem
Shabia & G 7 YEWDEM!!!
In the absence of free and transparent media and information flow gossips competing with rats and flowing along the undeground swages keep the stressed population both active and excited.
“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.” ~Plutarch
The currently much popular diet known as HIGH PROTAIN LOW-CARBOHYDRATE diet makes some people healthy but kills others with heart attacks or other attacks.
“Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband/Wife, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.” ~Phillip C. McGraw, :)
If the man is dead. It does not change anything. Get him and his party out of there.
Whatever one may say, there seems is a real problem with Mellesse’s health. Forget about the fantasy of his dieting. That sounds more like a joke. There is no any type of health related justification for someone of his size and weight to diet so much as to impact his composure and ability to function. I believe he is at the end of his rope. For Ethiopians it must be time to plan, prepare, and manage the transition to the rules of laws and democratic governance in the aftermath of his imminent death.
let him die Ethiopan will get big relief
Like the rest of us he is a human being, He can be sick…He will be cured
What is funny about? ..Please don’t make hay out of it
Jegnaw replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 7:26 AM
No Melesse is not human.he is the devil.so don’t make him human.this are Human Bing i know. Mandela is Human,Mother Tresa is human,Gandy is human.
Washara replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 3:36 PM
This individual is in no way a human being he is either zinjero or like the previous comment Devils slave ,and the next question for you is have you ever seen a human being who is lying the whole his life
and attacks every one infront of him.
Liya Kebede is the cause of Meles’s mental , physical and emotional sickness. Currently Azeb Mesfin is not eating with him, not talking to him and most of all not sleeping with him since he went back to Ethiopia after attending the G-8 summit in USA.
Mamo replies:
July 12th, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Menbere,
What does Liya Kebede has to do with Meles health condition? Must be a bad joke!
I want this devil to suffer alive for a long long long long ……..time before he dies. He should try the taste of his own medicine (suffering alive) before he goes to hell for good.
I have a good advice to my tigrean enemies, claim that you poisened him if you want to be at peace with Ethiopians in the aftermath of woyane misleadership.
Who really cares if he is dead or alive. He is a brutal dictator intoxicated with cruelty, greed, corruption, racism, nepotism, and full of foul mouth. God gave us mouth to eat with, but the riffraff uses his mouth to s–t with. He is unpatriotic ruffian who doesn’t have an ounce of decency, and respect for Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian flag. The flag that most African nations emulated after getting their independence from colonial powers.
This animal is a traitor, just like his father and grandfather did to Ethiopia in the past spying for the enemy to sabotage Ethiopian independence from invading foreign power. It will be a day of jubilation for all Ethiopians from all walks of life to see him go to hell. Yet it is a day of tribulation for a very few foreign countries who will miss him dearly, as their only African breed canine well trained, obedient, lap dog who knows when to bark and wag its tail to please its masters.
God Bless Ethiopia and your cries have been heard by the Almighty God
Fascist Meles will pay a dear price in not in this world in hell. The prayer of the Millions killed by fascist Meles is not in vain.
I don’t know if he is sick but Meles was scheduled to give a speech at the Tigray Martyrs’ Day last weekend. Instead, Weldu Abay, President of Tigray Regional Government,addressed the attendees on behalf of Meles. He was also scheduled to attend the 1st year anniversary of South Sudan’s independence day in Juba. He wasn’t there either. My insider sources from Addis Ababa do not know either and they are worried about what is going on regards him. Hope the truth will come out soon.
The Ethiopian replies:
July 11th, 2012 at 10:21 PM
hopefully the Ethiopian people will address you and all tplf that they are not needed any more in the land of our father.you have wronged Ethiopia,you have wronged her people.and have destroyed heir history..
hell got another dictator in range. The wish and prayer of the poor people been heard. he /meles already got his one way no return ever ticket to hell. party at my house on that day.
I think, Meles era is coming to the conclusions. I think also, Meles will soon realize that he is and he will be in the black list of Ethiopian history. For me, Building a Nile dam is ofcourse something, a big thing, but one Ethiopia is more than my own life! Meles denies Ethipia and its own children as one and he divide us his own way; re-write his own script of Ethiopia that we never heard nor know. Above all he gave our port to his brother Afworki. I want Meles to answer every Ethiopian questions with out condtion before he dies! I hope he will die soon just like Jack Layton of Canada or Abc’s late anchor Peter Jennings.
First Abebe gelaw got to him, and now some tiny little microscopic virus. Ene yemaygebagn, where were his body guards? Zm bilew demoz meblat bicha ? They can’t protect their employer? Fire them.
Abebe Gelawe, You did bad thing on the prime minster.
I wish the evil tyrant Zenawi is dead or permanetly paralyzed
who cares about him ,he is a killer its a big realif
That evil TPLF cockroach probably survives even from nuclear bomb. Or may be, the most hated bloodthirsty subhuman probably burning in Hell already, amen to that!
Let not just pray meles the terrists to die but also for all enemies of greater Ethiopia, should die with him enculuding the separates rebels.
No more land giving away to saudi,china,korea etc.Ethiopia should be for Ethiopians.No USA,no Europe.
How have donors who fund about one third of Ethiopia’s budget and many humanitarian programs reacted to this? They haven’t. They not only continue to support the Ethiopian government but in recent years have increased their aid. The West, most prominently the United States and the European Union, have concluded a strange pact with Meles Zenawi: So long as his government produces statistics that evince economic growth, they are willing to fund his regime — whatever its human rights abuses.
This policy is wrong, shortsighted and counterproductive. It is wrong because billions in Western tax money are spent to support an authoritarian regime. It is shortsighted because it ignores the fact that the absence of basic rights and freedoms is one of the reasons Ethiopians are so poor. It is counterproductive because many Ethiopians resent the unconditional aid and recognition given to their rulers. In Ethiopia — and also in Rwanda and Uganda — the West is once again making the mistake of rewarding stability and growth while closing its eyes to repression.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/opinion/abetting-repression-in-ethiopia.html
it must be ye-waldeba gedam menekusewoch ergeman
If he is sick, I wish him a quick recovery. That does not mean I support his politics, I am actually against his leadership. But at the time of sickness, who ever he is, we have to pray even for our enemies.
Who cares about devil we know he is going to hell at last. Rest in hell.
Hahahahahah you wish! You might go befor him who knows! Watch your self in a mirror men you looks like Arafat two days before he passed way . You better cheeked your health states of your self befor you point your finger in our pm Melese!! That is not my wish any one to be a sick even you, god bless Ethiopia and the united state of america
Anonynous replies:
July 12th, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Kassa,
What can I say about brainwashed moron people like you who worship and support the evil deeds of a tyrant that hates Ethiopia and Ethiopians and slaughtered countless number of Ethiopians, robbed the country and that has sold the precious land of Ethiopia to Arabs, Indians, Korea, China, Japan and others. Idiots like you cannot think critically and seeing new roads and highrise buildings that are owned by foreign billionaires in Ethiopia is a progress, even though, Ethiopians’ human rights have been violated for the last 21 years and unknown number of Ethiopians’ blood have been spilled by the evil tplf regime. Countless number of innocent Ethiopians thrown in prison, tortured, killed, starve to death, evicted from their homes and properties and thrown like a used napkins…These are the legacy of the Devil possessed dictator and his brainwashed shameless TPLF bloodsuckers who came to Ethiopia to divide, loot and kill Ethiopians.
Kassa, you need to realize that, when you knowingly support a mass murderer, consider that you’re immersing your hands on the blood of thousands of innocent Ethiopians who are murdered needlessely. I doubt it, but if you’re a parent, think how you feel and try to walk on the shoes of the victims parents of the hundreds of thousands Ethiopians who have lost their children by the inhumane tplf regime.
Remember the source of love and kindness is God. And the source of hate and distractions is Satan. Everything what dictator Meles and his shameless tplf have been doing to Ethiopia and Ethiopians for the last 21 years is pure evil not Godly. Someday when you meet your maker don’t say you haven’t been warned.
Gossip? Hmmm…
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” ~Benjamin Franklin
Please don’t tell this secret to Pm. Melles though. :)
Ethiopia better off without meles.
The new wind of change
Our country finally will free
after Abebe Gelaw and Ethiopian hero threw a bomb on the leader of bagabonds, Meles always dreamed about what happned ot Gadafe which made him not to sleep atall. Some how i like to attend at his grave. Is there any one who has a schedule to say buy to meles’s dead body
I feel like one cocroach left the planet,or a rat which has been trashing a humanbeing starting from his own family is gone but the worst part of all this is that happens before getting a spit and a slap of 80 million Ethiopians which can be double for the other rats or cocroaches one for their betrayal and the second is for they have been following the jungle rat this long.
we lost our dignity because of butcher meles zenawi he will pay the price in hell
Thanks lord,the prayers are answered,the wish have come true,the desires have been fullfiled;what else? At Meles Zinawi will soon be packed and depated to the destination where a one-way ticket to hell has been bought for.The departure of Aot.Meles Zinawi can not be considered premature,by no means;however,this departure can not be cancelled,again by any means;it is a life sentence that Ato.Zinawi received tantamount to the crimes he committed.Whom Ato Zinawi rest adjacent to?
A few days after Meles’s ghostly appearance and disappearance there was a night storm that has not been seen in many years in addis ababa and many parts of the country. It was a scary night ghostly wind blowing on all directions and buildings shivering like crazy. The next day people were talking about such storm happening only when a ruler of a country dies. The rummer still persisted and the cadres are quite jumpy this days.
Please, somebody tell me that ugly cockroach is dead already! The suspense is killing me, I badly want to hear the death of the TPLF evil master before I die.
No one can deny the fact that Meles is confronted with life threatening ailments. Equally true is that he is roaming the European and Middle Eastern world in search of treatment. This no doubt is because his doctors in Ethiopia have considered his case beyond their capabilities. What the European and Middle Eastern medical facilities can do to save him remains unknown.
It is public secret that Meles has passed out on several occasions due to the “Autonomic Neuropathy” he was suffering from for several years. Physicians suggest that the new ailment which contributed to his current speedy deterioration must be some kind of malignancy. His health issue is not limited to these two very serious problems. Therefore, given the multitude ailments challenging his life, the days of Meles may indeed be very limited.
The possibility of his sudden demise has preoccupied many Ethiopian minds. This obviously is out of love for their country and concern for its future. Though Meles and company have formally declared Ethiopia an ethnic federal democracy, what prevails on the ground is a very centralized one-party state. Many Ethiopian scholars rightly argue that it is not a one-party but a one-man dictatorship. The structure of this dictatorship is further compounded by its accompanying ethnic complexities.
Given these, should the debate not focus more on the the courses of action to be taken by the Ethiopian people following the dictator’s demise?
Elias i always comment and u never post it my comment should be #6 if you were a legitmate fair journalist but now there is no comment from me. so, Meles is bad because of his “divide and conqure” policy. try to be better than him. that’s my humble advice to you bro………………..
Blood canceryeee, I love you so much. Thank you. There’s a guy named Bereket Simon that you might be interested in also. Just keep him in mind.
Dear All,
Let Melese go forever leaving undeleble memory among Ethiopians.
He killed millions with cold blood intending to loot with his Tygrians tags.
He made the Ethiopia land locked with tumor mind thinking.
He displaced million of Ethiopians and as a result million house hold broke up and kids left on the street of Ethiopia.
He puts his kids in selective schools in England intendig to make them good citizen of the country.
He looted more than 11.3bn dollars and deposited in foreign banks leaving behind poor Ethiopians without single daily meals.
If he dies soon Ethiopia can recover soon from such atrocities and looting by the long standing tyrant.
Let God find him a good place out of our planet for such stupid man who hate his people and his country.
Meles is not ill. He is now on holiday ressort in the carribean islands with his hamily members and close friends.
He will show up in the coming few days.
The rumours on one side, the propagandists on the other hit up the news like a hell.
The Ethiopian people are yearning for a new leadership, that is free from partiallity, ethnic discrimnation as well as hegemony over the other nationalities by Woyane Tigres.
We know now Meles the crook is hiding himself somewhere. This drama is merely to gather public opinion.
The crook, Meles is not a popular person. So nobody cares about his whereabouts and his health conditions.
The treeachery Woyane clique has plotted this scheme by isolating their master from public for a certain time. This has in fact good reason. they want to celebrate his appearance on public as he is finished with his holiday recreation.
The funny parliament continues its session WITHOUT his participation. He can do it by REMOTE CONTROL. It does not make any different, whether he is there or not. The Parliament has passed a law on the controversial Ethio-Telecom. The law is passed to return the Ethiopian backward, even to the period before Menelik -Era.
Meles uncle from Ertrea, Aite Isayas was disappeared frm gov-Media for a month. The thing is being conducted by Meles.
What Wthiopians urgently need:
– dissolve the fake parliament
– dissolve the military
– dissolve the Security
replace with:
– provisional peoples Shengo
– provisional care taker government represented by all opposition figures
-set up apeace and reconcilliation commission
-Reform the constitution.
– Prepare election within 1 year.
– set-up a new judiciarry system that investigates the crimes committed by Meles & CO.
Rumours i think become true in this case because some part of the country specially in the center like 180 km north to addis the people killed every day in the town this is no April the fool the real happening each day in this area may be happening into the others to for sure i do know what is happening in north showa zone. Some say the government solder doing it some say the shiffta doing it but most of the people agree the government doing it. my point is whether the gov or shiffta doing it the government is the responsible for the people get killed in sun light unless melese government out of order due to his sickness.
It is true the people believe that he is very sick, that is why these killers are no control by any one. there is no rule in this town and the surrounding. Life become uncertain in land of my 15 generation where lived, tomorrow it happen every and each town, unless we actively participate to save our people. here i am not talking for one or two person i am talking a lot of people get killed by gun man. no body respond it due to this evedence I can say not only the pm but also the government dying
It is not even clear if zinawi is in the palace or simply close subordinates smuggled him out of Ethiiopia knowing that zinawi will have zero chance of surviving the lethal illness he has.Neither zinawi nor Azeb has close blood relative or relatives in the hiwhat circle,except that one is a member and the other is founding member of the organization.
A combined share both Azeb and Zinawi have in EFFORT is close to 44%;so what is the argument here? Well,when Zinawi expires,and,or after his death,family members from Zinawi’s side and others blood-lines will have a bitter fight against the soon-would be lonesme,Azeb Mesfin Golla for a good portion of zinawi’s share going to their pocket;in this case,Azeb will fight hard to get all or a good share of her husband’s share going to her children,which is 28% out of the 44%,but she has no one to lean on or trust.However,it is unlikely Azeb will fight off Zinawi’s relatives with either a feast or words and collect the money.Clearly,the moment Zinawi declared dead,Azeb would have to make readly available exit plan,or better if it had been done a couple of weeks agao while zinawi was thought would make it through,at the latest;the problem is,zinawi is not under her control or even to say,under her command,as most of the power over possessing zinawi has already gone to the few major players within the circle.Even insiders have overheard some sort of faint rumor spreading some within the circle saying that to keep the secret intact within those the very few owners of EFFORT,Azeb must be purged because she has already become nobody.This is why Azeb,with the help a few supporters attempted to convince zinawi to sighn the will so that if he leaves the money will for sure remain with his wife as a mometo given to the family including the children.Another problem for Azeb is that there are guards beside zinawi’s bed 24/7 so there is barely any chance that Azeb would anything about the fortune 1000 are ready to grab.Zinawi still breathes,but totally incapable of making out words and sentences;too hard nature made things for Azeb.
#44.tieiti,
“…Another problem for Azeb is that there are guards beside zinawi’s bed 24/7 so there is barely any chance that Azeb would anything about the fortune 1000 are ready to grab.” you stated.
Hmmm… As a husband and wife are they not sharing the same bed and the same blancket with all the lights turned off at least during the windy and chilly and heavely raining winter nights of Addis Ababa? What they do or don’t do under the blacket need not be the business of the guards.
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. ~William Arthur Ward
“…This is why Azeb,with the help a few supporters attempted to convince zinawi to sighn the will so that if he leaves the money will for sure remain with his wife as a mometo given to the family including the children” Hmmm… This amounts to an attempt to take the PM’s wealth with a single tiny signature for which he has been fighting close to 20 years in the rural jungles and 21 years in urban jungles. Following the classical traditions of the Pharaoes the PM should order the money both in cash and kind to be burried with him and go down the grave for eternity.
“…Azeb will fight hard to get all or a good share of her husband’s share going to her children,which is 28% out of the 44%,but she has no one to lean on or trust” Hmmm… :)
Fortunately I am a democratic whith diamond strong and exceptionally broad shoulders to lean on if she may not like the wealth to get burried with her dear and near husband.
“If I had no sense of humor, I would have committed suicide long ago.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
Has anybody noticed the similarity b/n Ethiopian and Syrian gov’t?
Alawites make up only 12% of Syria’s population, but they hold more than 80% of the positions in the powerful Republican Guard. It looks like the Tigreans and the Alwawites have a lot in common. Whatever happens to Asad is doomed to happen to Zenawi.
I have one request to our hero Abebe Gelaw, ever since you sting that brutal dictator sob with your words of wisdom, the Hitler of Ethiopia has been on his deathbed, now, I ask you to find a way to finish that cockroach once and for all. I want to hear this earth is free of the hateful monster killer that was ever created on the face of this earth.
Anonymous replies:
July 19th, 2012 at 6:11 PM
I can not believe you wish this to someone who is ill and could be in his death bed. You and That Abebe Gelaw, are an embaressement to yourself and the country. Just to let you know that I am not a member of any political group however I admire Meles what he did for the country. May I ask what you or Abebe did for your country? NOTHING!!!! JUST BUNCH OF IDOTS.
Probablly The Western World told him they have heard enough of complain from diaspora Ethiopians and he is a liability for the western democracies so he has to groom someone they can deal with and quitely go to Europe to reap biilions of public money for the rest of his life may be even jobs at the UN. He is not sick he is may be having serious of meetings with the executive team.
while we wishing his death another freash weyane blood is cooking infront of us. Let us wakeup.
Meles is a person who fights for 17 years to disintegrate Ethiopa, to replace Love among Ethiopians with disgusting Hate among Ethiopian Ethinicity. Above all he is credited for his wrong doing to bring hate for his ethinic group, not only in Ethiopia where ever they are living in the world. This is the truth.
I do’t have any LOVE or HATE for him, but witness his wrong doing, ego-centeric leadership, WHO HAVE NO INSIGHT FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF ETHIOPIA.
What will happen next when Meles era is over, in my opinion everything bad starts from his party members and his corrupted, greedy, self centered, but who have no Insight for the future of the country. They star dreaming for power, cos they do’t have the substance to think about.
This is gona be the bad news that this country is going to here.
EPRDF is constructed by few peoples with single person, dreaming to stay in power till his day to grave ” ene kemotiku serdo ayibkel, endalechiwu”.
Is that why He and His groups die in the desert for 17 years, uncountable Ethiopians die? what a shame too all they believe so. In my understanding to most Ethiopians (>94%) never accept Meles ideology of leading that country. but 5% may do so cos they either do not have any option once the damage has done or else they are living lexuries life on top of poor Ethiopian.
If we think Mandela for a second, NO single South Africans wish him to die he is their history, their father, he is their good teacher he si their symbol. This is all because HE CHANGE EXTREME HATE TO LOVE, FREEDOM, UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF LOVE AMONG PEOPLES WHO ACTUALLY WERE ENEMIES.
If Meles has a fraction of that he could have done money things to that country. I never give him CREDIT for his the so called yearly economic development cos before that he should have done lot of home work, Sadly time is against him and his loyal groups.
I WISH LOVE AMONG ALL ETHIOPIANS ( CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, PROTESTANTS ETC)
WISH OUR DIVERS ETHNICITY IS FOR LOVE RATHER THAN HATE. Hate between ethnicity which was lectured for >20 years but every body mis the lecture. No body wish to remember this again.
If he did the write thing God may bless his soul. But I did not know so far a dictator who kept power for more than 20 years to go free. He was a terrible power maniac who systematically, killed, discarded, harassed, and betrayed his own comrades of the TPLF. Meles is primarly a nightmare to the Tigrean elite who vicously has attacked them. surprisingly, this dictator has brought finally his wife to be the worlds most hated corrupt woman in ethiopia’s politics. what a mess. the Tigreans cry that they have lost 65,000 young men and women in their 17 years struggle. Hmmmm, was their struggle to crown Meles Zenawi? Most of the TPLF founders are alive. But they are not saying anything. will these ppl be asked for the damage they render to their own ppl?
Bekel Aman