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Ethiopia
Population: 84.8 mn.
GDP: 29.7 bn.
Debt: 2.9 bn.
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The EPRDF congress in September will discuss possible successors to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, with Haile Mariam Desalegne as a front-runner despite Amhara and Oromo opposition. High growth rates and collaboration with the USA and UK on Somalia will deflect criticism on human rights.

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  • Vol 44 No 5
  •  7th March 2003

Royal echoes

The last Ethiopian leader to visit Britain was Haile Selassie in 1972. Last month, Premier Meles Zenawi also laid a wreath on the grave of a nineteenth-century Ethiopian prince in the British royal town of Windsor. Haile Selassie's trip coincided with a d...

  • Vol 43 No 11
  •  31st May 2002

A war unwon

Prime Minister Meles is more admired abroad than in his own country

  • Vol 43 No 11
  •  31st May 2002

Friends and neighbours

Up to 200 people reportedly died in April, when fighting broke out in eastern Ethiopia along the road to Djibouti, causing fears that fuel might run short in Addis Ababa. Lorry drivers demanded army escorts after two were killed. The shooting was between ...

  • Vol 43 No 8
  •  19th April 2002

Missing Badme

As promised, both countries have accepted the (carefully crafted) ruling by the Eritrea-Ethiopian Boundary Commission, published last weekend. Both sides want peace but the propaganda war still rages and normal relations look distant. Both claim victory b...

  • Vol 43 No 6
  •  22nd March 2002

Pals with Pal

Is southern Sudan, already burdened with enough problems of its own, becoming enmeshed in another proxy war on its border with Ethiopia? Such fears follow the arrival in eastern Sudan of some 400 armed Ethiopian dissidents loyal to the ex-Governor of Gamb...

  • Vol 42 No 21
  •  26th October 2001

October evolution

Power is shifting from party to Premier – and maybe, to the people

  • Vol 42 No 10
  •  18th May 2001

Lost hope

Ethiopia's security chief, Kinfe Gebre Medhin, was shot four times in the back outside the Armed Forces Officers Club in Addis Ababa on 12 May. The murder hits Prime Minister Meles Zenawi personally and politically. Since 1991 Kinfe's title had been Gener...

  • Vol 42 No 9
  •  4th May 2001

Storm after the storm

A split in the dominant party may be good for national unity

  • Vol 42 No 6
  •  23rd March 2001

Meles the winner

It's been a tough few weeks for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Eritrean intransigence over the United Nations' Temporary Security Zone between the two armies has delayed implementation of the Algiers peace agreement. Meles's critics in the Central Committee...

  • Vol 42 No 4
  •  23rd February 2001

Gim-Gema in Ethiopia

Ethiopia, like Eritrea, is conducting a post-war reassessment (gim-gema), covering the decade since the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) took power. When it is complete, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is expected to score an overwhel...

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