PM Meles Zenawi working from home, local media reports

One of the leading Amharic weeklies, Addis Admas, reported today that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is recuperating at his residence in the palace.

Addis Admas claimed:

A senior government official indicated that the Premier is carrying out his duties from home communicating with only four officials. According to the senior official, Prime Minister Meles returned home a week ago after taking medical treatments abroad. Two Ethiopian doctors are looking after Meles’s health at the moment. The official also said that the Premier is recuperating and giving instructions after listening to reports and discussing with only four officials.

There are no signs of surgery in the visible part of Meles’s body, the official noted. Meles is given strict instructions by doctors to avoid lengthy meetings and workloads, according to the official.

Though the official indicated that the Prime Minister was scheduled to make a brief statement from office, our sources suggested that it might have been cancelled due to health reasons. [Read more on Addis Admas]

The news adds up to the latest tip, from two independent sources, that there would be a new development next week. While the tip lacked clarity, the suggestions from relatively informed sources ranged from a return of the Premier home to a media appearance.

On the other hand, the revoking of the production-sharing agreement with PetroTrans Co. in the past week is deemed as an indicator that the Premier is actively on duty. As PetroTrans is a highly-connected Chinese company, informed sources indicated that the decision was probably made at the highest level.

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  • I don't understand why people are so much interested in the aperance of the PM on the TV or Radio. In the past he appreared million times where have you been? Surprisingly if the PM comes to your house believe me you say he is not the PM its his ghoast.

    Tirsit from Gulele

  • I think millions of Ethiopians will undertsand me because as a citizens we share common dreams. But with few we cannot understand each other even if we post coments for the next 3000 years because they have a dream and the diffenece is that I have already seen practically their dreams with nothing good except poverity, killing and opperession.

    Therfore

    Never make a mistake my friend , Woyanes are the heroes who have brocken the cylces of operation envissioned by Minilik -II and implemeted by Hailesilase -I and the teyrant Mengistu. Remember we were holpless for many years despite our oposition to the derg in Universities but none of us could defeat that huge bathalions. Ethiopia is now going through a new vission of peace, eqality, development and tolerance and the people have already tasted the friuts of ...... Trying to revers this history might become playng with fire, a fire that will destroy all of us. The current situation might not satisfay the residues of the old regimes but I am sure in 2050 all will be satisfied where we will undestand each other.

    Thanks
    Kopra Jan meda

    • Sounds like you've have drank a copious amount of Woyane Propaganda dear Kobra.
      Wake up to reality. The terrorists that waged war on Ethiopia, terrorized and destroyed Ethiopia as much (if not worse) as Derg, are no hero but dangerous imbeciles who are taking Ethiopia hostage.

    • Kopra,I agree on your position on Mengistu's regiem;it had a vision to untie Ethiopia from it's entanglement but the regiem itself was tied with nonsense communist politics as much as most of the earlier years of EPRDF government and don't have a clue as to where to start.Where as,the older hegmonies were ruled by those that never had the chance to educate themselves with modern teachings.Even then they have tried thier best to modernize thier country under situations that were quite unfavourable for modernization.The business people as well as the educational level of citizens bear a lot of weight on what EPRDF achieved in the past some years regardless of the visionary leadership quality of Pm. Meles Zenawi and the global business environment.By the way,some of the ministers of HIM were initiating local business people to run shops around merkato which by then was wholly dominated by foreigners. Look at the situation from this point of view.

      Thank you

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