Addis Abeba — When Ethiopia's late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi unveiled the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in April 2011, he announced more than an engineering marvel--he declared Ethiopia's ...

Nibret Gelese spent years saving up to move from his home town Mekele, in the north of Ethiopia, and make a newlife in Addis Ababa. “Everyone said it was the place to be, the place to get rich,” he ...

* G20 pledge of $50 billion less than half-fulfilled * $40 billion needed annually in environmental compensation By Andrew Cawthorne and Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA, July 8 (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Thousands of mourners gathered near a public square in Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday to pay their final respects to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who was praised for lifting ...

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 ...

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,” ...

February 19, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — As nation approaches to conduct 2010 national polls, an international press-rights watchdog urged Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to exercise his leader ship in ...

Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s leader since 1991, was buried in Addis Ababa on Sept 2 in the cathedral where the emperor Menelik II was laid to rest in 1916. The sudden death, age 57, of Africa’s most ...

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 ...

Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, who during 21 years of repressive rule transformed his nation into a regional powerhouse, has died of an unspecified illness, depriving the United States of a key ally ...