Ethiopia's Intelligence Service Chief Tests Positive for HIV

May 19, 2012 — Getachew Assefa, the head of Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), is said to have tested positive for HIV, according to an unnamed official with ties to the elusive and secretive agency.

After experiencing unusual flu-like illness that lasted for several weeks, the chief officer sought medical attention where he later discovered he was HIV positive. Sources close to him say he plans visiting gulf states to get proper medical attention.

Described as a 'hawkish' character by the former US Ambassador to Ethiopia, the 53-year-old security officer is known to frequent brothels and is alleged to have contracted the virus from a prostitute working at the Sheraton Hotel in Addis Ababa.

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HIV is no more a threat. On that who knows the story is made up as he got many enemies.

The guy slept with Azeb Mesfin and contracted the HIV virus.

Chances of weyanne cheifs contracting HIV is high because they are frequent visitors of Brothels. The guy could be +ve or -ve in his HIV status. if he is -ve it should surprise us. we shouldn't be surprised if he is +ve

the opposition media should be careful on this type of news. it could be a plot to discredit ESAT or any other viable media. Likelyhood scenario is that after such news, the guy could easily produce his negative status if he is indeed -ve. pfl-Issayas had done it in which he successfully knocked out eritrean opposition media when he told them that he is dead and came out from the tomb after the news made big headline. chances are that weyanne might do the copy cat

president for life - Issayas had done it in which he successfully knocked out eritrean opposition media when he told them that he is dead and came out from the tomb after the news made big headline.

this goes to show how weak the eritrean oppositions/ activists are. if they don't know if isayas is alive or not for an entire month, that shows their intellegence deficit. they even were arguing he no longer was alive because he hadn't been on tv for a month. oh boy, if the state tv is the window through which they gather information, i almost feel sorry for them.

on the other hand, aforqi playing hide and seek just to score a propaganda point, as you suggested, says a lot about the messed up priorities of the hgdef mendef.

most weynae Leadership has AIDS . It's know to most Ethiopians in the country

Each one of the TPLFites were to be tested we would learn over 70% of them have HIV.