Marda meles zenawi biography
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Saying Goodbye to a Great and visionär Leader
By Tesfaye Habisso, Sept. 01,
The first time inom met Meles Zenawi inom 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 bygd 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 framträdande 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 S
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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 TPL
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CCTV, February
It is harvest season in Tigray, northern Ethiopia… and the wheat is heavy with seed.
One of the world’s oldest known farming areas, the Ethiopian highlands have served as the region’s grain basket, for centuries.
And in many fields, wheat is still harvested the old fashioned way – by hand.
But new strains of wheat have increased yields and this farmer is looking forward to a good year.
GABRESELASSIE, FARMER, “This year I expect three quintals, at the very least, which is more than before”
From the countryside to the cities, Ethiopia is in the midst of the biggest transformation in its long history.
Cycles of drought and famine have long played a role in Ethiopia’s politics. In , a terrible famine resulted in the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie. His death at the hands of a ruthless military dictatorship ended a long line of emperors going back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
But the bloody crackdowns of Mengistu Haile Mariam’s military regime or