At the core are his long-time ally and Foreign Minister  Seyoum Mesfin  and two newcomers in government  the tough-minded Berket Simon (Minister of Information and Culture) and Maj...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Moving mountains  The pro-Meles group  known as the 'Palace group'  includes Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin  Ambassador to Washington Berhane Gebre Christos and security chief Kinfe Gebremedhin...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     With crucial backing from the military and security services  Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and Meles survived the crucial vote at last Sunday's CC meeting  17 to 12...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 40 No 22 | 
            - ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
	     At the United Nations General Assembly in early October  Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin repeated that Eritrea  'ruled by the whim of one man'  was 'a major source of instability in our sub-region'  exploiting Somalia's chaos to 'advance its irresponsible policy of destabilising countries in the Horn of Africa'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 21 | 
            - ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
	     Issayas recently called the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front an ‘empty kettle’; Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told the UN General Assembly about the ‘known irrationality bordering on the insane in Eritrea’...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 18 | 
            - ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
	      Meles prefers to operate by consensus and was shaken by the criticism  some of it from close colleagues  including Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and Chief of Staff General Tsadkan Gebretensae...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 18 | 
            - ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 16 | 
            - ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
	     Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said he was pleased with the outcome of the OAU investigation  not least because it had ascertained that the Badme area was under Ethiopian administration prior to the start of the crisis...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 11 | 
            - ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
	     By 19 May  Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin was warning of the danger of full-scale conflict if Eritrea did not unconditionally withdraw...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin chose an odd day to condemn outside interference in Somalia: 18 March  the day Ethiopian troops again crossed into Somalia's Gedo Region to attack Al Itahad al Islami...