Newai Gebreab (left), long time economic advisor to Meles, and Foreign Ministry chief Berhane Gebrekristos are running the country since Meles Zenawi's absence from the state of affairs due to illness. The two Meles Zenawi's confidantes from Adwa assuming key leadership positions, closely supported by Gen. Samora Yonus and Communications Chief Bereket Simon (both of Eritrean heritage) together with Meles' God-father and profoundly anti-Ethiopian Sebhat Nega signifies Meles Zenawi's power oligarchy will remain intact long even after his death. It has been an old habit to call ultra-Eritrean nationalists like Meles Woyanes, a term which strictly implies the Tigrians, who have been politically dead since 2001, after Meles decimated them for trying to remove him for sabotaging Ethiopia's imminent military victory over the 1998-2000 War with Asmara. (Ethiomedia)
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