Meles Zenawi

The immediate hope is to allow Ethiopia to withdraw its invading army; Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says it will pull out as soon as possible and that some units have already withdrawn...

At the meeting were Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Somalia's President Yusuf and the Foreign Ministers of Kenya and Uganda Raphael Tuju and Sam Kutesa...

President Abdullahi helped by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi won the arms argument but the summiteers called for a constructive dialogue between him and the Islamic Courts...

Some of Premier Meles Zenawi's ministers think the DAG is trying to micromanage internal political affairs in favour of the gaoled opposition leaders...

Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi is dealing with the opposition after the disputed elections...

Meltdown for Meles ETHIOPIA: After last year's disputed elections Premier Meles Zenawi will try to transform the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) from a coalition into a single party with less focus on the country's ethnic groups (AC Vol 46 No 23)...

The death-toll makes it seem that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government cannot regain its lost legitimacy either with Ethiopians or with Western governments...

Asmara claims that Addis Ababa is favoured because it helps Washington with its 'war on terror' while Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is a member of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa (AC Vol 46 No 5)...

However the United States which leads the Djibouti-based regional anti-terrorist unit called the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (whose area of interest ranges from Kenya to Sudan and Saudi Arabia) is especially interested in Al Itihaad and not only because it is believed to have helped in the Al Qaida attacks on US and Israeli citizens in Kenya in 1998 and 2002 a line repeatedly stressed by Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi and most recently by President Abdullahi...

EU election observers roundly criticised the 15 May general elections infuriating Premier Meles Zenawi...