Meles Zenawi

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...

Now it seems that President Issayas Afeworki has outbid Premier Meles Zenawi...

The moratorium on air attacks agreed after June’s raids on Asmara and Makelle (and after phone calls by President Bill Clinton to Premier Meles Zenawi and President Issayas Afewerki) still holds...

He also speaks frequently to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Eritrea's Issayas Afeworki and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi...

The former Director of the United States’ National Security Council Anthony Lake met President Issayas Afeworki in Asmara on 7 October then flew to Addis Ababa and talked to Premier Meles Zenawi...

War has weakened Premier Meles Zenawi but the conflict with Eritrea has certainly not brought him down...

At the core of today's MLLT are Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin (known as Seyoum Mussa during the war) Siye Abraha and Abai Tsehaye the party ideologue reported to be pushing the hardest anti-Eritrean line today...

The planes were properly ‘mothballed' after Meles Zenawi took over and have been well looked after...