Bereket simon biography of barack obama
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Ethiopians mourn leader’s death
The body of Meles Zenawi, the late Ethiopian prime minister, has returned to Addis Ababa, with thousands of mourners gathering on the streets to pay their respects.
Meles, 57, died in a Belgian hospital just before midnight on Monday after contracting an infection, authorities said.
A military band played as the coffin, draped in an Ethiopian flag, was taken on Wednesday from the Ethiopian Airlines flight, a ceremony also attended by political, military and religious leaders as well as diplomats.
His wife Azeb Mesfin, dressed in black, was seen leaving the plane.
Hailemariam Desalegn, the deputy prime minister, 47, who has also been foreign minister since , will take over interim power, Bereket Simon, government spokesman, said.
“Under the Ethiopian constitution the deputy prime minister will take the oath of office before parliament,” he said.
He expected the parliamentarians to convene “as soon as possible”.
Bereket said “everything is stabl
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Amanuel Biedemariam
After the late genocidal dictator Meles Zenawi was rumored to have been sick, incapacitated or dead, Bereket Simon used the time cunningly to direct the course of the current Ethiopian political direction to suit his needs and the needs of few of his close allies. I have in the past written that “the End of TPLF is here”; and current political developments in Ethiopia prove that in deed, has happened. TPLF revolution, Gedli Tigray is over, caput because Bereket Simon is the undisputed victor for now.
Gedli Tigray died when the TPLF abandoned their number one agenda, Greater Tigray (Abay Tigray) after they decided to rule Ethiopia instead of Tigray. As Ambassador Cohen stated, the minority hegemony in Ethiopia is unsustainable. However, and unfortunately for the people of Ethiopia, the minority regime was able to hold-on to power using force, intimidation and by rigging elections. They managed for a while by dividing the nation along ethnic lines and with the bl
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Ethiopia: Barack Obama’s belated Journey of love
In was on August 30, that Barack Obama made his first trip to Ethiopia to visit displaced people in the eastern city Dire Dawa. Three weeks earlier, flooding caused by heavy rains had killed more than people and displaced tens of thousands of people in the area. U.S navy, based in neighboring Djibouti, were taking part in relief operations setting up canvas tents (furnished with straw mats and basic necessities) for housing purposes.
No one could have guessed, the then medlem av senat Obama was the next President of the United States of America.
Fast forward to , following Obama&#;s first visit to Africa as President, when he launched the 7 billion Dollars “Power Africa Initiative”, Ethiopia was included among the six benefiting countries .
In September , during a bilateral meeting Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in New York, President Obama made a sensational remark bygd hailing Ethiopia’s bright spots and enormous progress in