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Meles Zenawi wary of Omar al Bashir

Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:35 Ogaden Online

Addis Ababa is alarmed by the contacts between Ethiopian opponents and Sudanese officials. Khartoum, for its part, does not appreciate Ethiopian military aid for South Sudan.

The head of the Ethiopian government external intelligence services, Esayas Wolde Giorgis, who is close to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, was concerned recently by the news that Sudanese officials had met leaders of the Ethiopian opposition. He therefore asked for explanations on this subject from his Sudanese opposite number, who completely denied that there had been any such meeting. However, according to our sources, such meetings did indeed take place: in Khartoum with representatives of OromiyaIslamiya, in Asmara with members of the OromoLiberation Front (OLF) and in a European capital with leaders of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP).

For their part, the executives of the Sudanese intelligence services did not raise in front of their Ethiopian counterparts the issue of official objection to an increasing level of military support that Addis Ababa gives South Sudan. Nevertheless, they consider that a portion of the arms Ethiopia and Kenya send to Juba fall into the hands of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM, southern) in the Kurdufan Province. However, President Omar al-Bashir is very annoyed with the way the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA, southern army) uses Kurdufan and the Mount Nuba region to wage attacks against northern military forces. In fact, the leaders of South Sudan are giving him a dose of his own medicine: Khartoum has, for its part, used dissident southern servicemen to try to destabilise President Salva Kiir.

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Wash oncomycosise
written by Ahimad guru, July 26, 2011

The time is over, no reason to keep the tyrany Meles Zenawi on power. he thought that his addminstration was atractive.while it was not

Such ugly governments were kept for successal only. The game over, Does pure water wash an oncomycosise?