Meles Zenawi

On 12 March Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi once an ideological and military ally of President Issayas Aferwerki promised to work ‘politically or through other means’ towards ‘changing Eritrea’s policies or its government’...

Asmara’s principal aim there is to undermine the government of Premier Meles Zenawi and the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front...

Meles Zenawi himself will retire in 2015 he says (AC Vol 51 No 18)...

Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi still maintains that ‘civil dialogue’ is the ‘only sane option’ but he has accused Cairo of backing Ethiopian rebel groups (Berhanu Nega’s Ginbot 7) to destabilise his government and derail plans for the Framework agreement behind which Addis Ababa is the driving force...

When it eventually took place the visit was preceded by a two-day stopover in Addis Ababa to talk to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his ministers...

From Kinshasa Lee went to Addis Ababa Ethiopia on 8 July for talks with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi met Premier Singh on 25 May to discuss increasing Indian investment in Ethiopia’s agricultural and horticultural sectors to $10 bn...

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government has asked Turkish investors to back an export-processing zone for Ethiopia along the lines of those developed by Asian companies across Africa...

He later met with Hailemariam Desaleyn Deputy Prime Minister Foreign Affairs Minister and contender to succeed Premier Meles Zenawi in 2015...

Seyoum was among those senior figures who resigned in 2010 making way for a new generation of politicians under the unshakeable Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)Chairman Prime Minister Meles Zenawi...