Ethiopia at a Critical Juncture: Antifragile or in a Trapped Transition?
Antifragility, a concept introduced by the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, represents things that benefit from shocks, the exact opposite of…
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 @ 11:01 pm
Meles Zenawi
Meles Zenawi, born on May 9, 1955, was president of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1995 until his passing in 2012.
Meles was chairperson of Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front (TPLF/EPRDF) and the ruling party EPRDF since1989 and 1991, respectively. He acquired an MBA from the Open University of the United Kingdom and M.Sc. in Economics from the Erasmus University of the Netherlands. Meles was married to Azeb Mesfin and father of three.
Meles received various international awards for setting up a good foundation for the socio-economic progress of Ethiopia. He also received Rwanda’s National Liberation Medal, the “Uruti” and the country’s highest accolade, the “Umurinzi” (Campaign Against Genocide) medals, in July 2009 for helping to liberate Rwanda and end the genocide.
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Unraveling Meles Zenawi’s Concept of Developmental State
The developmental state (DS) literature puts competent and autonomous public institutions at the kernel of developmental success and effective state…
Monday, July 3, 2017 @ 5:37 am
Ethiopia: Empty Rhetoric or Building on a ‘Vision’?
Three years ago, a towering figure in Ethiopian politics has passed away. Meles Zenawi, a man, who at the beginning,…
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 @ 10:33 pm
Africa’s Next Hegemon: Behind Ethiopia’s Power Plays
(Harry Verhoeven - University of Oxford) In 1991, as the Cold War drew to an end, the only African country…
Monday, April 13, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
A look at Ethiopia After Meles Zenawi| Swedish Megazine
(By Cecilia Bäcklander) When Meles Zenawi died a year ago, many people hoped for a liberalization of state control in…
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 @ 1:27 am
Ethiopia and the ‘Meles Doctrine’ of National Security
[Remarks by Alex de Waal on the occasion of the first anniversary commemoration of the death of Meles Zenawi, Prime…
Thursday, September 12, 2013 @ 8:58 pm
S. Sudan urges Ethiopian PM to embrace Meles’s legacy
The Special Envoy of the President of the Republic and South Sudan's Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin has…
Monday, August 26, 2013 @ 6:56 pm
Development| Doing it the Ethiopian way
(African Business magazine) Strong economic growth of around 10% over the past few years and impressive progress on infrastructural development…
Sunday, August 25, 2013 @ 6:56 pm
Sudan to hold memorial service for Meles Zenawi
(Muawad Mustafa Rashid) President of the Republic, Omer Al Bashir is scheduled to attend the first anniversary of the death…
Sunday, August 18, 2013 @ 5:59 pm
Nile| Renaissance dam's unnoticed impact on Ethiopian psyche
(Merkeb Negash)“The humiliation of a thing is sufficient to stimulate it; the humiliation of a country is sufficient to rejuvenate…
Saturday, May 18, 2013 @ 8:26 pm