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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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Murder in the family

Washington is a different kind of victim: with its theory of the ‘New Africanism' it has seen Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as the keys to regional stability and co-chiefs of the coalition against the Khartoum regime along with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda...


Cross-border

The United States still backs Ethiopia as emphasised in Premier Meles Zenawi's invitation to President Bill Clinton's regional summit in Kampala on 25 March...


African roadshow rolls

There Clinton and President Yoweri Museveni will be co-hosting a mini regional summit at which Presidents Daniel arap Moi Benjamin Mkapa Meles Zenawi and Issayas Aferworki are expected...


Cautious but determined

Premier Meles Zenawi maintains his personal friendship with Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki and recently told television viewers that bilateral relations remained ‘strong and satisfactory'...


Madeleine's mission

In meetings with President Meles Zenawi on 9 December and President Yoweri Museveni the following day Albright is likely to review the success of the encirclement of Sudan's National Islamic Front government...


Looking for leaders

Unlike some Western governments Premier Meles Zenawi's at least has clear motives for its role...


Great Satan joins the fray

(Arrests continue including on 7 June of Abdel Basit Abass Hassanein 57 an apolitical paediatrician in fragile health who was badly beaten and held incommunicado in a 'ghost house'); * fear of offending US Muslims and failure to distinguish 'Islamic' from 'Islamist'; * lobbying by some Islamic organisations and individuals; The tough Sudan line stems from three main areas of concern: * Ethiopia (and Eritrea) are viewed as key to stability in the Horn and Uganda (and Rwanda) as key to east and central Africa (dubbed in Paris the policy of the 'Young Princes' - Premier Meles Zenawi Presidents Issayas Aferworki and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Vice-President Paul Kagamé)...


Aid argument

Premier Meles Zenawi's government is fighting the ETA's insistence on retaining Amharic in schools: the government's ethno-regional policy allows the use of local languages...


Unhappy anniversary

Ethiopia fears that this could further destabilise its volatile Somali region (Region 5); this issue is said to have been discussed when Gouled met Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa on 7 May...


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