Today is the 52nd day since Ethiopia’s khat-addicted zombie dictator Meles Zenawi has disappeared from public view. His wife Azeb Mesfin, aka the mother of corruption, has disappeared for the past 22 days.
Meanwhile, the Woyanne junta is facing an economic collapse, as the regime’s foreign currency reserve has depleted. The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia took the drastic measure of stop issuing Letter of Credit to importers this week, as reported here.
The Woyanne junta’s propaganda chief Bereket Simon said yesterday that dictator Meles Zenawi will return from where ever he is before Ethiopia’s New Year, which is September 11. Nothing that comes out of Bereket’s mouth can be believed, so we will continue to ask: where is the khat-addicted dictator?
(CPJ) — At least eight police officers raided the home of Yusuf Getachew, editor of YeMuslimoch Guday (Muslim Affairs), in the evening of July 20 in the capital, Addis Ababa, and took the journalist to the Maekelawi Federal Detention Center, according to local journalists. The police also confiscated four of Yusuf’s mobile phones, his wife’s digital camera, books, and 6,000 birr (US$334), the same sources said. Yusuf was charged the next day with treason and incitement to violence, but the state prosecutor did not cite any YeMuslimoch Guday articles as evidence, local journalists told CPJ. Yusuf has not been granted family visits, and his defense lawyer saw him for the first time on Wednesday, the journalists said. … [read more]
