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May 21 , 2022

Fisseha Desta, More Honest VP from Dark Times

Nothing says “end of an era” about the Dergue like the successive passing of its senior officials. In 2019, it was Legesse Asfaw, a major military figure, and in 2020, it was Fikreselassie Wogderes, former prime minister. The most recent was the passing of Fisseha Desta (Col.), former vice pre...

March 26 , 2022

Girma Zewdie, AU Career Officer, Serves His Last

Girma Zewdie (Col.) had never seen the need to be anything less than active, even in his mid-80s. He remained nimble into old age as best as he could. There was never a better demonstration than the fact that he insisted on driving himself wherever he needed to go. In fact, he took it a step further. Does anybody he knows need a ride? Leave it to Girma, who would give a ride to anyone that needs it, including his niece, Abaynesh Hailu. His loved ones had to insist that he stop, which he paid no heed to until his health began to fail, before he eventually passed away on February 28, 2022...


February 19 , 2022

Prudent Finance Guru, Leulseged Teferi, Passes

Leulseged Teferi had a saying that informed his understanding of various matters. He would listen to an explanation of an issue. He would then hold his palm out and say, “now look at the other side.” This was important to him. It could be a good or a bad thing, but by looking at the other side, it is possible to comprehensively assess at what cost it came or what it means from another perspective. It is part of the reason that his colleague and longtime friend, Mekdes Aklilu, board chairperson of Nile Insurance, says he was “prudent.” The other cause is that Leulseged was laser-focu...


March 28 , 2020

Doctor of Body, Spirit, Catherine Hamlin Passes

There has been a long-standing ritual for the women that come to be treated at the Addis Abeba Fistula Hospital, which was co-founded by Catherine Hamlin (MD), an Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist. “Who is the bride today?” Hamlin would ask patients that were to undergo a surgery to repair the hole that sometimes develops in the birth canal, a medical condition known as obstetric fistula. As far as she was concerned, for a woman suffering from this condition, the surgery was a rite of passage, a rebirth of some sort. It was their ticket to rejoining society, without the stigm...

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Printing Guru Bezuayehu Tesfaye Leaves Behind Footprint

Several years ago, Tsegaye Asfaw, head of the over a century-old Chamber Printing House, had his eyes on some Solna printing machine models. He mulled going through his usual supplier, Mosbez, an agen...

September 10 , 2021

Alemayehu Eshete Has Left the Building

Tsegaye Birhane, actor, met Alemayehu Eshete in the most unorthodox of ways. It was not at an event or work. Neither did they run into each other. It was the passing of Alex's, as Tesgaye calls him, f...

July 11 , 2021

Mother that Built House Full of Children Passes

The children who grew up with Abebech Gobena called her “Eddaye,” a term of endearment of their creation. It is not clear when it started or how, but for Abebech, it was close in meaning to Aderay...

April 3 , 2021

Tech Savvy Importer, Yazew Bekele, Makes His Last Sale

Alemayehu Ketsela was a young employee of Ethiopian Trade Contacts (ET-CON), an import company, when he joined Yazew Bekele for dinner with business partners at the Sheraton Addis. There he would run...

March 13 , 2021

Prominent Health Personality Dons His Last Kabba

Just a sneak peek of Tibebe Yemanebirhan (PhD) in one of his appearances on television speaks to his status. A dermatologist, research scientist, diplomat that has represented the country on the inter...

January 23 , 2021

Pioneer Retailer, 'Bambis,' Makes Last Sale

When he was young, Panos Tewodros could sometimes be “hot-blooded.” Working as an import manager with Charalambos Tsimas, better known as Bambis, a contraction of his first name, for the supermark...

January 16 , 2021

Instinctually Humanitarian, Yohannes Kifle Breathes His Last

Bonfires are set, and children go house to house singing Hoya Hoyeduring the holiday of Buhe, which is observed annually in August by followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The song is o...

December 19 , 2020

Without Regrets, "Patriot" Fikreselassie Wogderes Passes

Fikreselassie Wogderess was 46 years old when he was thrown into jail after a coalition of rebel forces fought their way into Addis Abeba in 1991. The next two decades of his life would be anticlimact...

December 5 , 2020

James Wolfensohn, Debt Restructuring WB Chief, Departs

The first time James Wolfensohn started working in Africa, a continent that would virtually become his mission as one of the more famous presidents of the World Bank, it was not an easy assignment. It...

November 29 , 2020

Fighter with the Soul of an Artist, Yemane Kidane Passes

It did not take much more than to greet Yemane Kidane, aka "Jamaica," to have an idea of his disposition. Perennially upbeat, a glass half full kind of guy, he consistently replied back to everyone th...

October 31 , 2020

Goatskin Aficionado, Lemma Guya, Lays Down the Brush

One of Lemma Guya's paintings, "Quanta," features dried beef, four cats, spilt milk and a rat. Stripped of its context, it seems bizarre, almost meaningless; a day in the life of a chaotic group of ho...

October 17 , 2020

Polio Warrior, 'Father' of Many, Mohammad Idris, Passes, 85

Mohammed Idris came to feel like a father figure to many that met him. Most striking was his effect on the younger generation. Part of this was that he had come to be known to many young people throug...

October 11 , 2020

Influential 'Ethiopianist,' the Professor Passes, 91

Mesfin Woldemariam (Prof.) took poetic license. An 18-year-old who had read one of his poems found this out by accident. A freshman pre-med student at Addis Abeba University in 1982, he was classmates...

October 3 , 2020

Politically Active Spiritual Leader, Hanfare Alimirah, Passes

Sultan Hanfare Alimirah was not one to stand back when political issues arose. Just as in 1991, he was attentive and aware of the changes that were to lead to the new administration that brought Prime...

August 8 , 2020

Calm Under Fire, Teferi Asfaw Passes, 68

The former Relief & Rehabilitation Commission was an island of sanity in the sea of pandemonium that was Communist-era Ethiopia. Exemplifying this contrast was Teferi Asfaw, who found himself work...

July 13 , 2020

Active to the End, Politician, Business Person Passes, 85

The outing of the Dergue, a left-leaning military junta, in the 1990s was met with a certain level of optimism by some circles in Ethiopia. It included individuals whose assets had been nationalised b...


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