Africa

          The late primer’s body was laid in a special tribune during the first ever state funeral ceremony in contemporary Ethiopia held at the Meskel Square today. The body was carried by a horse carriage dressed in black. It was then laid into the special tribune

Africa

Nation bids farewell to the late Prime Minister

Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam pledges state will be back to work ‘as of tomorrow”

Tsedale Lemma

As a lengthy national mourning period came to an end today thousands of Ethiopians, more than a dozen African serving and former heads of state, U.S and EU diplomats and leading business people including Bill Gates and Nigeria’s self-made billionaire Aliko Dangote, and other prominent people from around the world gathered at Meskel Square to pay their last respect to the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died of a sudden infection from an unspecified illness on August 20^th.

Africa

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dies

State TV says he died at 11:40 last night

Two months after he was admitted to an undisclosed hospital abroad for a yet undisclosed ailment, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, 57, has passed away on August 20, the council of ministers announced.