1994: Net costs of group living in a solitary forager, the Eurasian badger (
Meles meles).
Ethiopia's new prime minister should therefore take advantage of the vacuum created by
Meles' departure to continue doing the things that are working while improving areas previously hampered by overreaching government policies and the absence of democratic institutions.
His successor Hailemariam will be sworn in after
Meles is buried, although no date has been fixed.
The national implications of
Meles' death should be considered against the backdrop that he engineered one-party rule in effect for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and his Tigrayan inner circle, with the complicity of other ethnic elites that were co-opted into the ruling alliance, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
Des milliers d'Ethiopiens sont descendus mardi soir dans le centre d'Addis-Abeba pour saluer la memoire de
Meles Zenawi, decede a l'age de 57 ans dans un hopital de Bruxelles, et dont le corps a ete expose a son domicile, apres son arrivee a l'aeroport de la capitale ethiopienne.
| KUWAIT, Aug 21 (KUNA) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi passed away at the age of 56, local state media at the capital Addis Ababa announced last night.
Ethiopian Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi told visiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday that Ethiopia supports Tokyo's longstanding bid to become a permanent member of the U.N.
Ethiopian Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi called the European Union and other rich economies to do more to promote fair trade with poor nations.
Nafie, who also is deputy chairman of the Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP), delivered his government's message of condolence, sent to Ethiopia's ruling Ethiopia Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) over the death of former PM
Meles Zenawi who died on 20 August.