ESAT Radio declares Meles Zenawi has died
Meles Zenawi Asres was born on 8 May 1955 in Adewa, Tigray and has been the Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 1995. He was President of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995. Since 1985, he has been chairman of the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front(TPLF), and he is head of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
He graduated from the General Wingate high school in Addis Ababa, then studied medicine at Addis Ababa University (at the time known as Haile Selassie University) for two years before interrupting his studies in 1975 to join the TPLF.Meles Zenawi acquired an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the Open University of the United Kingdom in 1995 and an MSc. (Masters of Science) in Economics from the Erasmus University of the Netherlands in 2004. In July 2002 Meles received an honorary doctoral degree in political science from the Hannam University in South Korea, according to file on under his name on Wikipedia.
Ethiopian Satellite
Radio and Television (ESAT) just reported in its tonight news that
Ethiopian Prime Minsiter Meles Zenawi has died at 57. The radio cited
its sources from the International Crisis Group (ICG) and diplomatic
community.
The
Radio Station also stated that ICG is now preparing a report entitled
"Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in post Meles Zenawi".
The International Crisis Group was founded in 1995 by World Bank Vice-President Mark Malloch Brown, former US diplomat Morton Abramowitz and Fred Cuny, an international disaster relief specialist who disappeared in Chechnya in
1995. Their aim was to create an organisation, wholly independent from
any government, to assist governments, intergovernmental bodies and the
international community at large in preventing deadly conflict. It
is headquartered in Brussels.
Meles Zenawi Asres was born on 8 May 1955 in Adewa, Tigray and has been the Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 1995. He was President of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995. Since 1985, he has been chairman of the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front(TPLF), and he is head of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
He graduated from the General Wingate high school in Addis Ababa, then studied medicine at Addis Ababa University (at the time known as Haile Selassie University) for two years before interrupting his studies in 1975 to join the TPLF.Meles Zenawi acquired an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the Open University of the United Kingdom in 1995 and an MSc. (Masters of Science) in Economics from the Erasmus University of the Netherlands in 2004. In July 2002 Meles received an honorary doctoral degree in political science from the Hannam University in South Korea, according to file on under his name on Wikipedia.
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