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Meles Zenawi
Prime Minister of Ethiopia from to
In this Ethiopian name, the name Zenawi Asres is a patronymic, and the person should be referred by the given name, Meles.
Meles Zenawi Asres (Tigringa and Amharic: መለስ ዜናዊ ኣስረስ; pronounced[mɛllɛszenawiasrɛs]listenⓘ), born Legesse Zenawi Asres (8 May – 20 August )[2] was an Ethiopian politician and a former anti-Derg militant who served as president of Ethiopia from to and as prime minister from until his death in
Born in Adwa to an Ethiopian father and an Eritrean mother, Meles became actively involved in politics after changing his original first name from Legesse to Meles, adopted following the execution of fellow university student Meles Takele by the Derg government in In that year, he left Haile Selassie I University to join the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and fight against the Derg (the Mengistu Haile Mariam-led military dictatorship in Ethiopia). In , he became the chairman of the TPLF, and the head of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) after its formation in
After leading the EPRDF to victory in the Ethiopian Civil War, he served as president of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia from to ,[3] then as the 2nd prime minister of Ethiopia
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Saying Goodbye to a Great and Visionary Leader
By Tesfaye Habisso, Sept. 01,
The first time I met Meles Zenawi I was 44 years old and he was 36, during the July Peace and Democracy Conference of which brought together most of the contending political forces operating in the country prior to the fall of the military junta ("Derg") led by Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam. The conference was known as the Transitional Period Conference which after thorough and heated debates and deliberations among the participants was able to design and agree on a Transitional Period Charter, akin to a constitution of an emerging democracy, that effectively ended the previous dark period of internecine conflicts and ethnic strife across the country and subsequently established the Transitional Council of Representatives (CoR) and Government (TGE) which paved the way to the realization of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) Constitution and Government in I was then Member and Secretary of the Council of Representatives ().
Throughout his tenure as President of the Transitional Government and Chairman of the Transitional Council of Representatives () and as Prime Minister of the FDRE Government (), Meles proved himself to be a person of enviable intellectual prowess,