Abeba Desalegn (አበባ ደሳለኝ) posted a new documentary on her official YouTube channel on Wednesday, November 11. The film is titled After 13 Years (ከ13 ዓመት በኃላ) and it is about Merkign (መርቂኝ), the fourth studio album she had set for the next day. The album title means “bless me.”
The documentary runs 12 minutes and 40 seconds. By Saturday afternoon, November 14, it had been watched about 97,000 times. The video page names Geez Creative as the distributor and says the album is now available on digital stores.
The official thumbnail shows Abeba in a brown cap, looking through an old newspaper photograph of a woman with a small child. The artwork also carries the words “Vol. 4” and the album title in Amharic.
On Sunday she had posted only a 46 second trailer for the same album. Tewnet.com wrote about that announcement, and about the songs she has kept off the track list for now, in our Merkign preview. We first wrote about Abeba in 2018, when she appeared on the Enchewawet show.
Video: After 13 Years (ከ13 ዓመት በኃላ), the official Merkign documentary, posted on Abeba Desalegn’s YouTube channel on November 11, 2026.
