Hunger is a political issue in Ethiopia. Famine helped bring down the regime of Emperor Haile Selassie I in 1974 and the 1984-5 famine, in which one million people died, fatally undermined the Derg ...

(Reuters) - Here are key dates in the political life of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Monday night, according to Ethiopia's state media. May 1955 - Legesse Zenawi is born in Adwa ...

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,” ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Meles Zenawi, a young rebel who dropped out of medical school to go to war against east Africa's biggest army, had contracted malaria and was close to death, hiding near a ...

ADDIS ABABA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Meles Zenawi had just started speaking during a G8 summit in Washington last May when a heckler shouted out: "You are a dictator. You have committed crimes against ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler and a major U.S. counter-terrorism ally who is credited with economic gains but blamed for human rights abuses, died of an ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Meles Zenawi is a Prime Minister for Ethiopia with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Statement. The year with the highest average number ...