By William Davison -
Jul 16, 2012 3:43 PM GMT+0300
Ethiopia’s government said that
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is ill after he failed to attend an
African Union summit, and an opposition group reported he may
have died in a European hospital.
“There is no serious illness at all. It’s minor only,”
Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said today in an
interview in Addis Ababa, the capital. “As any human being, he
has to get medication and he’ll be coming back soon.”
The 57-year-old leader wasn’t at the opening of the African
Union summit in Addis Ababa yesterday. He also skipped a meeting
of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development in the city on
July 14 for “health reasons,” Senegalese President Macky Sall
was quoted as saying by the Addis Ababa-based Reporter
newspaper.
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