Meles Zenawi

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...

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...

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...

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

The idea came from a speech by Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi after his November trip to Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda...

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...

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

(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)...

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...

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...