The political longevity of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi  in power since 1991  has made him a prominent spokesman for the AU  which his country hosts  and he is likely to run for the chairmanship of the AU Commission after he retires  before the next elections in 2015...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Kenya was reticent about such a plan for years  until President Mwai Kibaki  South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Ethiopia’s Premier Meles Zenawi inaugurated it last month...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The route through Djibouti is just one of Premier Meles Zenawi’s plans for Ethiopia to regain access to the sea  since relations with Eritrea remain cool...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Illinois) said that when he met Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2010  he asked him to explain the relationship between China and Africa...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     It is the latest manifestation of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's well-known distaste for dissent  which appears to be growing amid fear of Arab Spring-style unrest and sensitivity over the regional impact of the colossal Grand Millennium Dam (now called the Renaissance Dam) project  which the local media has criticised...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 52 No 24 | 
            - ETHIOPIA
- SOMALIA
	    Ethiopian troops have gone into Somalia to support the Kenyan deployment  although Prime Minister Meles Zenawi remains sceptical about the operation...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 52 No 21 | 
            - KENYA
- SOMALIA
	     That raises the possibility of another intervention by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government  which sent its troops into Somalia in December 2006 to overthrow the Islamic Courts Union regime  which had been unwise enough to propose the forcible reunification of ethnic Somali territory  including Ethiopia’s Ogaden Region...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The SPLM-N  though  continues to talk to regional leaders such as Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi and in September gave him its ‘road map for political transformation’ to discuss with President Omer...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Both the Khartoum and Juba governments seem confident that their friendly and burgeoning relations with Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi’s government will give them the edge in the Abyei deployment...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi attended on behalf of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development and everything went through his office  not the Foreign Ministry  we hear...