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Ethiopia
The problem of Meles' successor

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is currently in hospital in Belgium for a serious illness. This brings up a taboo subject – who is to succeed him! [...]

Published on 21/07/2012 at 23:03 GMT

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Abay Tsehaye
Addisu Legesse
Arkebe Okubai
Azeb Mesfin
Bereket Simeon
EPRDF
Meles Zenawi
Samora Younis
Tewodros Adhanom
Tigray's People's Liberation Front
TPLF
Tsegay Berhe

Ethiopia
Who will really run the country?

Now that the posts of Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have been distributed, the organisation of post-Meles Zenawi power is beginning to take shape.

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Ethiopia
First notes of discord in the EPRDF

Who will replace Meles Zenawi as head of the EPRDF? This is a question on which the government coalition's executive committee has not been able to agree this week.

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2012

Horn of Africa
Afars worried by death of Meles

Two hundred Afars from Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea or from the Diaspora in Europe and the United States, converged on Brussels to meet from 30 August to 2 September.

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2012

Spotlight | Ethiopia
Meles Zenawi's succession, a tightrope act

While his sickness did not give Prime Minister Meles Zenawi time to prepare for his succession, he was nevertheless able to sow the seeds of it in the ministerial reshuffle that followed the general election in May 2010.

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2012

Ethiopia
Meles upsets the Muslims

The Prime Minister is upsetting a large number of Muslims through the excesses of his campaign against Wahhabism.

Free access Politics 11.05.2012

Ethiopia
Meles Zenawi takes on Wahhabism

The Aweliya Center, the largest Islamic institute in the country, has become the centre of resistance to the government attack on the spread of Wahhabism.

Subscribers only Politics 23.03.2012

Ethiopia
USA already looks to post- Meles

Some Ethiopian opponents are convinced that the United States may have already begun to discuss the succession of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

Subscribers only Politics 10.02.2012

Spotlight | Ethiopia
Insecurity rules on the steps of the empire

After two decades in power, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has still not been able to bring a lasting peace to certain of the country's peripheral regions and establish regional administrations that are considered legitimate by the local [.

Subscribers only Politics 27.01.2012

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Abay Tsehaye
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Azeb Mesfin
Bereket Simeon
EPRDF
Meles Zenawi
Samora Younis
Tewodros Adhanom
Tigray's People's Liberation Front
TPLF
Tsegay Berhe

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