Joe Biden doesn’t need a running mate who has shown such poor judgment. By Bret Stephens The reforms by the country’s new prime minister are clashing with its flawed Constitution and could push the ...

Addis Abeba — When Ethiopia's late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi unveiled the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in April 2011, he announced more than an engineering marvel--he declared Ethiopia's ...

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann's firm Studio Other Spaces has designed five buildings and seven pavilions within the Meles Zenawi Memorial Park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Meles Zenawi left college at the age of 19 in 1975 to fight against the Derg; after 16 years that brutal military regime was overcome and he led Ethiopia, first as President, then as Prime Minister, ...

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The state funeral of Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi on Sunday in the capital, Addis Ababa, underscores the highly unstable character of political relations in Africa. Meles’s death was shrouded ...

ADDIS ABABA, EthiopiaADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Thousands of mourners gathered near a public square in Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday to pay their final respects to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who was ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Ethiopia's longtime prime minister died this week. Meles Zenawi was 57. He came to power in 1991 when a rebel army toppled that nation's Marxist ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Ethiopia’s new rulers waited just one day after the death of dictator Meles Zenawi was announced to confirm ...

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 ...