Meles Zenawi

Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi welcomed Wu’s call for further agricultural and anti-poverty programmes...

Last month Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Africa Confidential that ‘If the Al Shabaab got control of Somalia we would go in and remove them again...

The alternative would be for Ethiopia to embark on its own military surge in defence of Prime Minister's Meles Zenawi's 'red lines' as told to Africa Confidential last month in Addis Ababa: 'There won't be an Islamic Courts regime in Somalia so long as we are around...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Africa Confidential that his government was prepared to talk to Eritrea...

Premier Meles Zenawi's government has no real problem with the situation along the border...

Last week Prime Minister Meles Zenawi made it clear Ethiopia had the means to keep open the Ethiopia-Djibouti trade corridor and to ensure its own trade links through Djibouti port...

Asmara knows there are hardliners around Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi who would relish a chance to restart the war and march into Asmara and the Massawa seaport even with just a fig leaf of international approbation...

Yet it will fight its war of words against Premier Meles Zenawi’s government likening Ethiopia’s conduct in the Ogaden to its operations in Somalia...

One high point was the invitation to Premier Meles Zenawi to deliver the Mahatma Gandhi lecture...

Islamists attacked Ethiopian bases on 27 November after Premier Meles Zenawi had said his troops could not leave quickly...