Ethiopia says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is taking "sick leave" but will remain in power while he deals with an unspecified illness. Government spokesman Bereket Simon briefed reporters Thursday in ...

After 60 days of covering up his illness, the Ethiopian government announced PM Meles Zenawi’s death. Meles ruled the country for the last 21 years. Rumors about his poor health spread after he was ...

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 ...

To many Ethiopians the sudden disappearance of Prime Minister Zenawi is a source of joy and excited expectation, for his die-hard supporters apprehension no doubt and concern for their leader. Is he ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler and a major U.S. counter-terrorism ally who is credited with economic gains but blamed for ...

Barry Malone lived in Ethiopia for almost five years and was Reuters correspondent there until November 2010. I once asked Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Aug. 20 from an ...

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians mourned Sunday the late strongman Meles Zenawi, in the first state funeral staged for a leader of the Horn of Africa nation in more than 80 years. Followed by giant ...

Meles Zenawi came to power in Ethiopia at the head of a rebel army that toppled dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. For 20 years, he worked to alleviate poverty for Ethiopians, but was accused by his ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57, after months of speculation about his health. State television announced his death Tuesday, saying he died from a sudden infection late ...

A highly intelligent and articulate man, with a mastery of English and a cynical awareness of just how much the West would tolerate, Meles acquired a glowing international reputation. He had a clear ...