Meles Zenawi

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government has three options for its Somalia policy all of them formidably difficult...

Addis Ababa does not seem to be sending reinforcements but last week Prime Minister Meles Zenawi promoted several generals and colonels as well as 400 officers in the Northern Command...

UN agencies embassies and non-governmental organisations do not want to endanger their relations with Premier Meles Zenawi’s government...

Resentment against the military onslaught from Addis Ababa is growing although it is more difficult to tell how far this translates into growing local support for the ONLF – as opposed to generalised opposition to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his government...

To satisfy both domestic expediency and international pressure Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has commuted the life sentences passed on 35 of his opponents...

The former Defence Minister Siye Abraha (just released from a six-year gaol term for corruption) has criticised Prime Minister Meles Zenawi for not taking Eritrea's Assab port during the war...

Activists believe that the Oromo Ogadeni and Eritrean detainees are more likely to be opponents of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government rather than terrorists...

Museveni for years a close ally of Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed helped plan a peacekeeping force in 2004...

The immediate hope is to allow Ethiopia to withdraw its invading army; Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says it will pull out as soon as possible and that some units have already withdrawn...

At the meeting were Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Somalia's President Yusuf and the Foreign Ministers of Kenya and Uganda Raphael Tuju and Sam Kutesa...