The late Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi played his part until late June when his health sharply deteriorated by campaigning to ensure that minority clan groups in the region such as Hawiye Rahenweyn Bantus and Dir would have a say in their future which would help to keep them away from Al Shabaab...
Much hard negotiating lies ahead between Juba and Khartoum after talks restarted on 4 September following a month’s delay for the funeral of Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi and the end of Ramadan...
The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on 20 August has triggered a constitutional succession mechanism which he personally designed having led the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front for 21 years...
After 2005 he became a Special Advisor to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi first on Social Affairs then on Public Mobilisation and Participation...
Ping’s main Anglophone backers – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi – were absent (see Pointer The missing host)...
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi the ostensible host of the African Union summit on 14-16 July in Addis Ababa was nowhere to be seen...
Vol 53 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
This year’s annual Thabo Mbeki Lecture was due to be given by Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi but he pulled out because President Jacob Zuma was opening a global African diaspora summit at the same time and Meles did not want to upset Zuma by turning up for an Mbeki event...
IGAD now under the chairmanship of Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi has had long close relations with the SPLM and sees Khartoum weakening as it fails to tackle its mounting internal problems (AC Vol 53 No 9 All or nothing)...
As business and political leaders descend on Addis Ababa for the World Economic Forum on 9-11 May Premier Meles Zenawi’s government will be trumpeting its economic achievements...
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has agreed to work with Kenya on conservation and exploitation of shared water resources; Kenya wants a formal agreement to establish a Joint Lake Turkana and Rivers Omo and Daua Basin Commission...
