Published by the government of Zimbabwe
3 July 2008
Harare — THE body of the secretariat member of the African Union Observer Mission, Professor Brehanu Abebe, who collapsed and died in Harare on Monday, was yesterday repatriated to Ethiopia.
A spokesperson for the Ethiopian Embassy said the body was flown to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
"The body was flown to Ethiopia today (yesterday) for burial but the cause of the death is not yet known," she said.
Prof Abebe, from Ethiopia's civil society, collapsed at Holiday Inn and was rushed to the Avenues Clinic where he died on arrival.
Head of the AU Observer Mission and former President of Sierra Leone Mr Ahmed Tejan Kabbah expressed shock at the death.
The observer mission was composed of Pan-African Parliament legislators, senior officials of election management bodies, prominent individuals and members of the civil society organisations drawn from various African countries.
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