Meles Zenawi always said he didn’t intend to die in office. Speaking to TIME as long ago as 2007, the Ethiopian Prime Minister was talking about moving on: “I have been around for quite a long time,” ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Ethiopia’s new rulers waited just one day after the death of dictator Meles Zenawi was announced to confirm ...
With the dust beginning to settle on yesterday’s death of Meles Zenawi—ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national security ...
Meles Zenawi came to power in Ethiopia at the head of a rebel army that toppled dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. For 20 years, he worked to alleviate poverty for Ethiopians, but was accused by his ...
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 ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopians have started voting in national and regional elections, the country's first since the death in 2012 of longtime leader Meles Zenawi. More than 38 million voters are ...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a senior Africa figurehead, died of an infection while being treated abroad for an undisclosed illness, state-run television said on Tuesday. Speculation that ...
Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi dies of an undisclosed illness; his leadership changed Ethiopia's economy to one of rapid growth and less... Ethiopia's longtime ruler, prime minister Meles ...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia will announce on Monday the provisional result of a national election which is expected to return Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to power and set him on the road to ...
Joe Biden doesn’t need a running mate who has shown such poor judgment. By Bret Stephens The reforms by the country’s new prime minister are clashing with its flawed Constitution and could push the ...