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Ethiopia

Meles Zenawi

Date of Birth: 8 May 1955
Place of Birth: Adwa
Died: 20 August 2012


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Abiy pushes radical reforms for debt deal

Like former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Abiy's officials are tacking an independent line in the face of international pressure – whether on devaluing the birr demanding haircuts from private creditors or pushing ahead with the $4bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which has fractured relations with Egypt...


Central bank floats birr to secure IMF deal

Paradigm shiftThis move marks another massive shift away from the East Asian-style developmental state model of former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi which emphasised among other things tight control of capital and monetary policy to ensure cheap credit was directed into areas the government deemed most necessary such as transport energy and communications infrastructure and labour-intensive industries like textiles and sugar...


Fighting escalates as federal ties fray

By early January General Tsadkan Gebretensae a veteran guerrilla leader and a former Chief of Staff of ENDF retired by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2001 had taken charge of strategy...


No good options on the table

Its loss of power at the centre starting with the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2012 had deepened those rivalries but since last November the war with Addis seems to have pulled the movement together...


Stirring the regional pot

This would satisfy a key demand of supporters of Ethiopiawinet 'Ethiopian unity' who heavily criticised the failure of former Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the TPLF to take Assab in 2000...


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