{"id":7742,"date":"2013-01-23T00:28:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielberhane.wordpress.com\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2016-05-16T00:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T21:10:55","slug":"post-meles-zenawi-ethiopia-horn-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/2013\/01\/23\/post-meles-zenawi-ethiopia-horn-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Edition | Post-Meles Zenawi 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>   <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"616\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"614\">\n<h1 align=\"center\"><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Special edition| Post-Meles 2012<\/font><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"4\">Collection of exclusive interviews, opinion pieces and news digests covering the four moths after Meles.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <\/strong>  <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"609\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"288\"><font size=\"2\">&#160;<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/melesandhailemariam.jpg\"><font size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:5px;border-width:0\" title=\"meles zenawi and hailemariam desalegne\" border=\"0\" alt=\"meles zenawi and hailemariam desalegne\" src=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/melesandhailemariam_thumb.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"240\" \/><\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">&#160;              <br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\"><strong>**************************                <br \/>*<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/23\/Ethiopia-Hailemariam-Desalegne-100-days-Roundup\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PM Hailemariam&#8217;s first 100 days<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#160;<\/strong> <\/font><strong>             <br \/><em><font size=\"2\">**************************<\/font><\/em><\/strong><em><font size=\"2\">                <br \/><\/font><\/em><em><font size=\"2\"><\/font><font color=\"#400040\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">&quot;In this digest,&#160; a summary of outstanding developments of economic interest since late August is presented&#8230;&quot;<\/font>                   <br \/><strong>*<\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/danielberhane.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Post-Meles: Economic Digest<\/font><\/strong><\/a><em><font size=\"2\"> (Guesh)                <br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\"><strong>**************************                  <br \/><\/strong>&quot;Meles Zenawi, the intellectual leader of Ethiopia, criticized more than his fair share alive was celebrated after his death&#8230;&quot;<\/font><\/em><em><font size=\"2\">                <br \/><strong>*<\/strong><\/font><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/13\/quotes-meles-zenawi-death-world-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Reactions to Meles&#8217; passing<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\"><strong><em> (Fetsum)<\/em><\/strong> <\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"29\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"282\"><strong><em><font size=\"2\">                 <br \/>*<\/font><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/23\/top-15-highlights-of-year-2012-ethiopian-the-horn\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Top 15 highlights of year 2012<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Daniel)              <br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\"><em><strong>                 <br \/>**************************<\/strong> <\/em>              <br \/><em>&quot;Of course, Meles didn\u2019t believe in \u201cbedtime stories, contrived arguments linking economic growth with democracy\u201d. Both historical evidences and development theories prove him right.&quot;<\/em>               <br \/><em><strong>*<\/strong><\/em><\/font><a title=\"Click here for more on Meles Zenawi\" href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/13\/in-defence-of-meles-zenawi-no-direct-relation-between-democracy-and-development\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">In Defense Of Meles Zenawi<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Merkeb) <\/font>            <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><font face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\"><strong>**************************<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><font face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\"><em>&quot;\u12a3\u122d\u1260\u129b\u12cd \u12a3\u1260\u1260 \u201c\u1295\u130d\u130d\u122d \u1260\u121b\u12f0\u122d\u130d\u1260\u1275 \u1230\u12a3\u1275 \u12e8<strong>FBI <\/strong>\u1230\u12ce\u127d \u12a5\u12e8\u1320\u1260\u1241\u129d&#160; \u1290\u1260\u122d&#160; \u1265\u120e\u1293\u120d\u201d :: \u12c8\u12ed\u1294 \u12c8\u130c\u123b\u12cd !&#160; \u201c\u12e8\u1275 \u12ed\u12f0\u122d\u1233\u120d \u12e8\u1270\u1263\u1208 \u1219\u12ad\u1275 \u1244\u122b \u1270\u1308\u1298\u201d \u12a3\u1209 \u12a3\u1263 \u12f1\u12ab\u12cd\u1361\u1361 \u1235\u1295\u1275 \u1270\u12cb\u130d\u1276 \u12eb\u12cb\u130b\u1293\u120d \u1265\u1208\u1295 \u201c\u12e8\u12a3\u1218\u1271 \u121d\u122d\u1325 \u1230\u12cd\u201d \u12a3\u12f5\u122d\u1308\u1295 \u12e8\u123e\u121d\u1290\u12cd \u201c\u12a3\u122d\u1260\u129b\u127d\u1295\u201d \u1208\u12ab \u1260\u12a3\u121c\u122a\u12ab\u1295 \u12a3\u1308\u122d \u12a5\u12e8\u1296\u1228 \u2018\u1205\u12c8\u1213\u1276\u127d \u12db\u122c \u1308\u12f0\u1209\u129d \u1290\u1308 \u1308\u12f0\u1209\u129d\u2019 \u1260\u121a\u120d \u132d\u1295\u1240\u1275 \u12cd\u1235\u1325 \u1290\u12cd \u12eb\u1208\u12cd\u1361\u1361&quot;<\/em><\/font>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><\/font><font face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Trebuchet MS\">*<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/18\/ethiopian-diaspora-opposition-patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">\u12e8\u12f2\u12eb\u1235\u1356\u122b \u201c\u12a3\u122d\u1260\u129e\u127d\u201d[Amharic]<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\">&#160;<\/font><font face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\">(\u1306\u1232)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"285\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"29\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"281\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"289\">\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>&quot;A couple of months later came a hint as to who their backer was, when one of their leader was seen roaming the streets of Asmara. Ginbot 7 had decided their best bet for removing EPRDF from power was to start an alliance with the neighborhood bully. The unholy alliance with an archenemy of Ethiopia angered many, including some of Ginbot 7\u2019s ardent supporters who fancied themselves marching down street of Addis with Ginbot 7 leaders..&quot;<\/em> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\">*<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielberhane.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Ginbot-7 using the oldest trick in the book<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Mahi)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\">**************************<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\">&quot;In the Ethiopian bureaucracy, as we know it, the best a complainant can hope from an administrative appeal is a benevolent superior officer who reverses the unjust decision while reminding her it was avoidable if she had &quot;behaved&quot;.&quot; <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\">*<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/19\/ethiopia-administrative-injustice-is-here-to-stay\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Administrative Injustice is Here to Stay<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Daniel)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"29\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"284\"><a href=\"\/Documents%20and%20Settings\/Daniel\/Local%20Settings\/Temp\/WindowsLiveWriter154078920\/supfiles14BD2B7\/StateMinisterGetachewReda.jpg\"><font size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width:0\" title=\"StateMinisterGetachewReda_thumb\" border=\"0\" alt=\"StateMinisterGetachewReda_thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stateministergetachewreda_thumb7.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"212\" \/><\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">&#160;&#160; <br \/><\/font>            <\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\">&quot;Your hypothesis is just a hypothesis \u2013 in fact, an outrageous one.Apparently, you are one of those people who consider the ONLF to have some kind of military presence in the Somali region [of Ethiopia]. It doesn&#8217;t.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\">[It presupposes] the ONLF was so potent militarily that it could&#160; even threaten the transition. Even Admiral Osman would not go that far.&quot;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\">*<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielberhane.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Interview with Getachew Reda<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Press &amp; Publicity State Minister at PM Office)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"285\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"282\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"285\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><strong><font size=\"2\">*<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/22\/ethiopia-egypt-nile-war\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Ethio-Egypt: A War on Nile Improbable, for now<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/font><font face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\"><\/font><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><\/font><font size=\"2\"> (Daniel)                          <\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/danielberhane.com\" target=\"_blank\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\"><strong>\u12e8\u1218\u1208\u1235 \u12a5\u1228\u134d\u1275\u1293 \u12e8\u12a2\u1275\u12ee\u1335\u12eb \u1356\u1208\u1272\u12ab<\/strong><\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"><\/font><font face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\"> (\u1306\u1232)<\/font> <\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"282\"><strong><font size=\"2\">*<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/18\/eritrea-ali-abdu-asmara-silence\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Ali Abdu&#8217;s absence &amp; Asmara&#8217;s silence<\/font><\/strong><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Merkeb)              <\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2013\/01\/20\/ethiopia-minister-junedine-sado\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Junedine Sado Episode<\/strong><\/a> (Daniel)<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"285\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"282\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"289\">\n<p><em><font size=\"2\">&quot;When the rumors were rampant about his illness and wild speculations of his death, I have told people that if PM Meles were dead Ethiopians from North to South and from East to West would mobilize and grieve for days. And that is exactly what happened.&quot;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\">*<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielberhane.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Interview with a diaspora activist, Mekonen Kassa<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"286\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><em><font size=\"2\">&quot;There is a dizzyingly worrisome glorification at national level of the late PM Meles for unfortunate reasons that are purely to do with an absolute urge of political justification than his actual and untimely departure from the picture.&quot;<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"2\">*<\/font><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielberhane.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font size=\"2\">Interview with Editor-in-Chief Tsedale Lemma<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"285\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"283\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"288\"><font size=\"2\"><em>&quot;I appreciate Alula&#8217;s help to Weldemichael at Dogali to prevent us from the colonialists. On the other hand, at lowland of Eritrea he committed war crime his soldiers burned villages, raped women and executed many. He is considered by a lowlanders Eritreans as one of those who committed genocide in Eritrea.&quot;                <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"><strong>*<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielberhane.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Interview with an Eritrean opposition activist<\/strong><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"28\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"283\"><strong><font size=\"2\"><em>Posts you might have missed:<\/em>                 <br \/><\/font><\/strong>            <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2012\/12\/08\/the-post-meles-ethiopian-developmental-state-the-challenges-ahead\/\"><font size=\"2\">The Post- Meles Ethiopian Developmental State: the Challenges Ahead<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2012\/09\/28\/pm-hailemariams-inauguration-illusory-and-realistic-optimisms\/\"><font size=\"2\">PM Hailemariam\u2019s inauguration: Illusory and realistic optimisms<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2012\/12\/08\/eritrea-colonized-mind-false-sense-of-self-and-delusion\/\"><font size=\"2\">Eritrea: Colonized Mind, False Sense of Self and Delusion<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/2012\/07\/07\/%e1%8b%a8%e1%8b%b2%e1%88%b2-%e1%8d%96%e1%88%88%e1%89%b2%e1%8a%a8%e1%8a%9e%e1%89%bd-%e1%8b%a8%e1%8a%8b%e1%88%8d%e1%8b%ae%e1%88%bd-%e1%8c%89%e1%8b%9e-%e1%89%b3%e1%88%aa%e1%8a%ad-%e1%89%a0%e1%8c%a8\/\"><font size=\"2\"><\/font><font face=\"Power Geez Unicode1\">\u12e8\u12f2\u1232 \u1356\u1208\u1272\u12a8\u129e\u127d \u12e8\u128b\u120d\u12ee\u123d \u1309\u12de \u1273\u122a\u12ad \u1260\u1328\u1228\u134d\u1273<\/font> [Amharic]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"6\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"6\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special edition| Post-Meles 2012 Collection of exclusive interviews, opinion pieces and news digests covering the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,234,25,314,43,47,132,6,100,339,8,41,84,50,133,80,23,134,19,42,27,135,98,136,137,340,29,99,9,82],"tags":[131,113,239,24],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-cabinet-members","category-danielberhane","category-economy","category-egypt","category-energy","category-eprdf","category-eritrea","category-ethiopia","category-featured","category-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam","category-hailemariam-desalegn","category-interview","category-kenya","category-media","category-meles-zenawi","category-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","category-news","category-nile-waters","category-opdo","category-post-meles-2012","category-security","category-somalia","category-south-sudan","category-sudan","category-terrorism","category-tigray","category-tplf","category-women","tag-africa","tag-grand-ethiopian-millennium-dam","tag-ll","tag-politics-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bJ9U-20S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14546,"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions\/14546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornaffairs.com\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}