Meles Zenawi

Kenya was reticent about such a plan for years until President Mwai Kibaki South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Ethiopia’s Premier Meles Zenawi inaugurated it last month...

The route through Djibouti is just one of Premier Meles Zenawi’s plans for Ethiopia to regain access to the sea since relations with Eritrea remain cool...

Illinois) said that when he met Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2010 he asked him to explain the relationship between China and Africa...

It is the latest manifestation of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's well-known distaste for dissent which appears to be growing amid fear of Arab Spring-style unrest and sensitivity over the regional impact of the colossal Grand Millennium Dam (now called the Renaissance Dam) project which the local media has criticised...

Ethiopian troops have gone into Somalia to support the Kenyan deployment although Prime Minister Meles Zenawi remains sceptical about the operation...

That raises the possibility of another intervention by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government which sent its troops into Somalia in December 2006 to overthrow the Islamic Courts Union regime which had been unwise enough to propose the forcible reunification of ethnic Somali territory including Ethiopia’s Ogaden Region...

The SPLM-N though continues to talk to regional leaders such as Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi and in September gave him its ‘road map for political transformation’ to discuss with President Omer...

Both the Khartoum and Juba governments seem confident that their friendly and burgeoning relations with Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi’s government will give them the edge in the Abyei deployment...

Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi attended on behalf of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development and everything went through his office not the Foreign Ministry we hear...

The parties agreed on various joint commissions to allay Egypt’s and Sudan’s fears which had increased in April when Prime Minister Meles Zenawi relaunched the ambitious Renaissance Dam project...