{"id":15856,"date":"2026-11-14T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/?p=15856"},"modified":"2026-11-14T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:26:54","slug":"abeba-desalegn-merkign-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/15856","title":{"rendered":"Abeba Desalegn Posts After 13 Years (\u12a813 \u12d3\u1218\u1275 \u1260\u1283\u120b), a Documentary on Merkign (\u1218\u122d\u1242\u129d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- FEATURED IMAGE (set in the Featured Image box, not in the body): featured-abeba-desalegn-merkign-documentary-2026.jpg\nCaption: Abeba Desalegn in a brown cap looks at an old photograph in the official thumbnail for her Merkign documentary, posted on November 11, 2026 (Abeba Desalegn \/ official YouTube)\nAlt: Abeba Desalegn in a brown cap looking at an old photograph in the official Merkign documentary thumbnail\n--><\/p>\n<p>Abeba Desalegn (\u12a0\u1260\u1263 \u12f0\u1233\u1208\u129d) posted a new documentary on her official YouTube channel on Wednesday, November 11. The film is titled After 13 Years (\u12a813 \u12d3\u1218\u1275 \u1260\u1283\u120b) and it is about Merkign (\u1218\u122d\u1242\u129d), the fourth studio album she had set for the next day. The album title means &#8220;bless me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Vol. 4&#8221; and the album title in Amharic.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/15821\">Merkign preview<\/a>. We first wrote about Abeba in 2018, when she <a href=\"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/8295\">appeared on the Enchewawet show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkU44UNc1bM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><em>Video: After 13 Years (\u12a813 \u12d3\u1218\u1275 \u1260\u1283\u120b), the official Merkign documentary, posted on Abeba Desalegn&#8217;s YouTube channel on November 11, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abeba Desalegn (\u12a0\u1260\u1263 \u12f0\u1233\u1208\u129d) posted a new documentary on her official YouTube channel on Wednesday, November 11. 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