Seyoum Mesfin

Suspicion also surrounds the circumstances in which the internationally respected Seyoum Mesfin who was Ethiopia's Foreign Minister for 19 years was killed and how other leading members of the TPLF have been treated...

'IGAD will now think of a different and innovative approach to solve the conflict ' chief negotiator Seyoum Mesfin announced at the end of April explaining the need for a new team...

It included some of its most senior members such as founding member Seyoum Mesfin as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs Berhane Gebrechristos; the former President of Tigray Regional State and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister Tsegaye Berhe; and the former Mayor of Addis Ababa Arkebe Oqubay Metiku now a Prime Ministerial Special Advisor...

Some senior party members including Seyoum Mesfin (TPLF) the Ambassador to China and Bereket Simon (ANDM) and Abay Tsehaye (TPLF) both prime ministerial advisors felt Metekakat was not implemented properly in 2013...

Former Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin is expected to remain the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development's chief mediator in South Sudan...

Even Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn who with Ambassador Seyoum Mesfin led the mediation team from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) looked cautious...

Led by Ethiopia's former Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa the officials urged Riek to respect January's truce and rein in his forces and their allies such as the White Army...

Ethiopia is more circumspect lending former Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin to mediate on behalf of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development...

The one exception was Tigray where four of the nine members of the TPLF Politburo retired among them political heavyweights and veterans of the armed struggle Seyoum Mesfin ex-Foreign Affairs Minister and current Ambassador to Beijing; Berhane Gebrechristos State Minister in the Foreign Ministry and formerly Ambassador to the European Union and the United States; and Arkebe Uqbay the respected former Mayor of Addis Ababa...

A first big change is the retirement of Seyoum Mesfin after 19 years as Foreign Minister and his appointment as Ambassador to China showing the importance Ethiopia attaches to that connection...

With his January appointment as Ambassador to China Seyoum Mesfin steps back from the day-to-day battles in Addis politics...