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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. At the [...]

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Abay Tsehaye
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Tedros Adhanom
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Spotlight | Ethiopia
EPRDF rejuvenation going at a snail's pace

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Who will really run the country?

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Eritrea, Ethiopia
Meles tests Afeworki's reactions

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Meles upsets the Muslims

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Meles Zenawi takes on Wahhabism

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Samora Younis
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Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

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

Ethiopia
One of Zenawi's pals switches from mining to solar

Ethiopia
Might the EPRDF coalition fall prey to the domino effect?

Ethiopia
Lemma Megersa retains control of OPDO

Ethiopia
Qatar to open an Al-Jazeera outpost in Addis

Ethiopia
Why Solomon Tadesse was fired at ETO

Ethiopia
Workeneh Gebeyehu must own up to OPDO

Ethiopia
Hailemariam retains his second-in-command

Ethiopia
TPLF in a new conclave to find way out of crisis

Ethiopia
Meles Zenawi protégé heads the OPDO in Ethiopia

Spotlight | Ethiopia
EPRDF rejuvenation going at a snail's pace

Ethiopia, Senegal
Hailemariam versus Macky Sall

Ethiopia
Around fifteen French companies go to look for business

Ethiopia
It's time for a waiting game

Ethiopia
Junedin Sado in a fine mess

Ethiopia
Sebhat Nega's network in the army

Ethiopia
Who will really run the country?

Ethiopia
First notes of discord in the EPRDF

Horn of Africa
Afars worried by death of Meles

Ethiopia
Sebhat Nega goes it alone

Ethiopia
The problem of Meles' successor

Eritrea, Ethiopia
Meles tests Afeworki's reactions

Ethiopia
Meles upsets the Muslims

Ethiopia
Meles Zenawi takes on Wahhabism

Ethiopia
USA already looks to post- Meles

Spotlight | Ethiopia
Insecurity rules on the steps of the empire