A former police chief under Ethiopian prime ministers Meles Zenawi and Hailemariam Desalegn Workneh is a close Abiy ally...

By early January General Tsadkan Gebretensae a veteran guerrilla leader and a former Chief of Staff of ENDF retired by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2001 had taken charge of strategy...

Its loss of power at the centre starting with the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2012 had deepened those rivalries but since last November the war with Addis seems to have pulled the movement together...

This would satisfy a key demand of supporters of Ethiopiawinet 'Ethiopian unity' who heavily criticised the failure of former Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the TPLF to take Assab in 2000...

National focusConventional wisdom suggests that Abiy like the late EPRDF visionary Prime Minister Meles Zenawi needs the dam as a rallying point...

Asaminew was imprisoned in Addis in 2009 after being charged with mounting a coup against Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and he was released along with other political prisoners last year (AC Vol 60 No 13 The politics behind the putsch)...

Fanfare greeted the appointment of the former political prisoner Birtukan Mideksa a nemesis of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as the head of Ethiopia's electoral board in November but donors are less enamoured of its achievements since...

After the EPRDF almost lost power in 2005 its late leader Meles Zenawi hugely expanded the number of village and district council seats knowing that the ruling Front was the only organisation capable of contesting the three million-plus positions...

The EPRDF had been held together primarily around Marxist-Leninist-tinged doctrines promoted by the late Meles Zenawi and his inner circles: democratic centralism ethnic federalism revolutionary democracy and latterly the so-called Democratic Developmental State...