Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a strongman in the troubled Horn of Africa and a key United States ally, has died, his government announced Tuesday. Meles had not been seen in public in months, ...

NAIROBI — Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57 after months of speculation about his health. State television announced his death Tuesday, saying he had been recovering ...

Barry Malone lived in Ethiopia for almost five years and was Reuters correspondent there until November 2010. I once asked Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Aug. 20 from an ...

Meles Zenawi and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)-led Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) came to power in 1991 after a 16-year armed struggle in the countryside. In ...

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia is grieving the loss of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. The passing of Ethiopia’s leader saddens the country's citizens.Everybody in Ethiopia was talking about Tuesday. Many people ...

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Abdi Ismail Samatar is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, a research fellow at the University of Pretoria, and member of African Academy of Sciences. Any recent visitor to Ethiopia ...

Shrewd, brutal, and a master at soliciting and spending aid money, Prime Minister Zenawi's 20 years of rule could be nearing its end. Now, both his supporters and his detractors may have to ...

Zenawi, the incumbent prime minister, and his EPRDF were said by election observers to have been favoured by an uneven playing field and a narrow political space [AFP] Shortly after dawn Ethiopia’s ...

It has been three months since Meles Zenawi, the late Ethiopian Prime Minister, was formally declared dead at the age of 57 after months of speculation as to his whereabouts. However, Meles Zenawi’s ...