Meles Zenawi

The late Premier Meles Zenawi's widow Azeb Mesfin who is often said to be at loggerheads with other party leaders has not attended the meetings of Tigray People's Liberation Front leaders...

Rather than producing legions of superb strategists and thinkers in the mould of the revered late leader Meles Zenawi the Front instead largely churns out over-promoted cadres who seem to have arrived at senior positions purely through political loyalty...

The EPRDF had campaigned on its strong economic record and it promises to build the 'developmental state' envisaged by its late leader Meles Zenawi...

Until now he has been seen as merely the executor of the party's Metekakat (Renewal) policy that his late predecessor Meles Zenawi set in motion (AC Vol 56 No 7 Easy on the landslide)...

FactionsFactionalism has again been creeping into the EPRDF since the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2012 (AC Vol 42 No 9 Storm after storm)...

Addisu Legesse (ANDM) the head of the Meles Zenawi Leadership Academy also retains some support in the party...

Much was made of the 'new generation' of African leaders such as Ethiopia's late Meles Zenawi Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and even Eritrea's Issayas until relations soured irredeemably...

But when in 2011 the late Premier Meles Zenawi announced the actual planned output consultants Norplan realised that the GERD would submerge the Mandaya dam...

His former peers – Meles Zenawi Moammar el Gadaffi Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki – are long gone from power so Uganda's leadership in his view is filling a dangerous political vacuum...

A former World Bank Country Director for Ethiopia and Sudan Ishac Diwan told Africa Confidential that the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had in 2003 asked him to discuss with Egypt's energy and finance ministers Cairo's potential interest in investing in the dam and contracting to buy power...

In 2010 the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi stated that the dam was a top priority and must be completed ‘at any cost'...