Meles Zenawi

Nearly two years ago it formally asked Premier Meles Zenawi for leave to reopen 14 offices closed in 1993-94...

The two countries will be unable to feed their peoples and on top of the financial costs President Issayas Aferworki and Premier Meles Zenawi will face heavy criticism if casualty figures are released...

Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi insisted on the need for a return to the status quo ante and the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from all disputed areas; Eritrea refused to move before a ceasefire...

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi attending his first OAU summit since 1977 had failed to help when Eritrea's President Issayas Afeworki failed to arrive in Tripoli for pre-OAU talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi...

President Hosni Mubarak didn't manage to shift the position of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi when they met on 19 May in the southern Sinai town of Sharm el Sheikh...

This time Issayas says Ethiopia is weaker and more divided because most Ethiopians won't support what they see as a war prosecuted in the interests of Premier Meles Zenawi's Tigrayan-dominated government...

More of an innovator than Chalker Short is noticeably less sympathetic towards the 'New Africans': Yoweri Museveni Paul Kagame Meles Zenawi and Issayas Afeworki...

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the Ethiopian government have tried (and believe they have succeeded) in mobilising the people behind 'the concept of Ethiopia' and creating a truly national army turning back to ideas played down since 1991 in pursuit of 'ethnic federalism – Ethiopian-ness the Ethiopian flag Amharic as the national language...

He is a friend of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the two armies cooperate...

Both President Issayas Afeworki and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi have refused to take calls from Clinton several times in the last fortnight Africa Confidential understands...