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Kenya concerns over Ethiopian Political future. |
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  Kenya concerns over Ethiopian Political future.
August 09 08 2012.
Thursday (Ogadentoday Press) - Kenyan Prime minister, Raile Odinga told the Financial Times that, Kenya and other East and West African countries worry about the political development of Ethiopia since the disappearance of Ethiopian Prime minister.
“We are very concerned about developments in Ethiopia, knowing how fragile the politics are there and the fact there is no clear successor,” Odinga told the Financial Times, admitting that he and other regional leaders were in the dark on Mr Meles’s state of health.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is said to be in Hospital, the Government spokes-person, Bereket Simon told local and International media that the Prime Minister is getting better and accused opposition forces inside and outside the country as campaign of fabrication”
He told to the BBC, “The Prime Minister’s health is now in much better condition after his treatment” he said adding, “he is taking some rest.”
What happen to Melez Zenawi?
According to diplomatic source, Zenawi collapsed and he was taken to Hospital where he was about a month.
unconfirmed source told to Ogadentoday Press, that Zenawi has a brain cancer and his surgical operation was unsuccessful.
How Zenaw is viewed?
Ethiopian Prime Minister Melez Zenawi is seen mostly western media and he was an ally of war against the Islamist hardliners emerged from the horn-of Africa Nation, Somalia, Zenawi sent thousands of his troops into Somalia and are blamed for killing civilians but for the USA, and Britain Zenawi is seen as afraid while most of his people put in the list of first Enemy, but some see him as strong leader.
He was hero for some, Mostly the Zenawi political block members of EPRDF, People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front.
In the Last years, Zenawi Party is shifting political, economical alliance into East, China pouring into billions of dollars the investment of Ethiopia.
In Ogaden Region, where Zenawi faced a strong opposition, Ogaden National Liberation Front, (ONLF) waged a war against his administration and his ambitious economic ideology where he wants to get oil and gas in Ogaden Region.
In turn of that, Zenawi sent 250,000 of his troops into Ogaden Region in 2007.
According to human right reports, Troops killed thousands of civilians in Ogaden ragion, while rape was continuously taking place in the region, thousands of civilians are trapped in Ogaden Jail, and almost 10 villages are burned down.
But according to Independent observers, small group based in Jigjiga Administration (Kilil 5) sees him as a friend and new leader of Ethiopia.
Undeniable, 1995, Zenawi brought Federalism into Ethiopia, and most of Ethiopian, Oromo, Ogaden, Afar, Tigray, Southern nations peoples prefer Federalism then centralism government.
Amhara Region prefer centralism government but, majority of Ethiopian sees as “ old fashion politics”
possible succession?
accordion to sources, PM may die or step down for strong health reasons, some possible successors as PM include may include Hailemariam Desalegn (the hand-picked deputy prime minister and foreign minister) from Southern Nations, and he was former regional President of Southern Nations.
Tewodros Adhanom (the health minister and close confidant of the Meles); graduated London University as Medicine student, he is from Amhara Region.
And his wife Azeb Mesfin, (an MP, member of the EPRDF’s powerful nine-member executive committee) A business women run a multimillionaire NGO)
Sebhat Nega, a friend of Melez and former chairman of TPLF( Tigray People Liberation Front).
Ogadentoday Press.
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