EPRDF Leadership

EPRDF’s leadership structure and election | Metekakat review

The Metekakat plan - officially adopted in June 2009 by the ruling party, EPRDF - is meant to transfer power to a…

EPRDF Congress| Undermined by fuzzy Metekakat plan

The Late Prime Minster Meles Zenawi was both present and absent at the two-yearly Congress of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary…

Ethiopia's ruling party| Transition plus Confusion

Since the passing of the late PM Meles Zenawi, I coined a phrase to describe the constellation power inside the…

Timeline: PM Hailemariam Desalegne's first 100 days

Ethiopia's newly elected Prime Minister made 100 days in office on Dec. 28, 2013. Here is a round up of…

Ethiopia | The Junedine Sado Episode

Minister Junedine Sado is on his way out, becoming the first Minister to be sacked in post-Meles Ethiopia. His dismissal…

EPRDF elects Hailemariam, to hasten the leadership replacement plan

The 180-membered Council of the ruling party, EPRDF, elected new leaders last Saturday, at the end of its two-days meeting. …

Ethiopia's transition: What lies beneath the haste and pause

On Tuesday, Aug. 21, around 5:30 am, the Cabinet issued a statement, aired by almost all electronic media throughout the…

Analysis: Ethiopia after PM Meles Zenawi (By René Lefort)

[I shall note that there are some factual errors as well as doubtful claims in this article. However, it is…

Unprecedented: Ethiopia's PM Meles Zenawi declared off-duty

The government officially disclosed today that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is on sick leave. The Premier has had  for a…

Wikileaks: Ethiopia: TPLF is ‘Not a one man show’

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa, classified as 'Confidential' and dated June 2007, claims that: PM Meles took…

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