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Ethiopia
Azeb Mesfin pushed to sideline

The widow of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi feels increasingly sidelined in Ethiopia's ruling coalition and is mulling a move to the United States. [...]

Published on 06/12/2013 at 22:03 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Abay Tsehaye
Azeb Mesfin
Bereket Simon
Debretsion Gebremichael
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EPRDF
Hailemariam Desalegn
Meles Zenawi
Meles Zenawi Foundation
Sebhat Nega
Tewodros Adhanom
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Azeb Mesfin's influence has been on the wane since the death of her husband, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. She will now jettison some of her political mandates.

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A delegation of former leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, dominant faction of the EPRDF coalition ruling in [...]

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Government quietly disintegrating

The general election looming ahead in 2015 is already casting a shadow over the Ethiopian government, whose sole uniting bond would seem to be its praise for the memory of its late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

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President loses his head of protocol

President Mulatu Teshome will have to find a new chief of protocol, since the previous incumbent Belay Girma has resigned.

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The highly controversial president of Amhara Regional State, Ayalew Gobezie, finally left his post.

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Addis Ababa

The capital's former mayor Arkebe Oqubay, who was a powerful [...]

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Ethiopia
HMD wants to control his rivals

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (HMD) has eliminated two leaders of the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM) in the ministerial reshuffle on 4 July.

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Upsetting the apple-cart

The arrest of several Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) officials and their businessmen allies is indicative of political struggles about corruption.

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EPRDF rejuvenation going at a snail's pace

The plan devised and instigated by the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, to rejuvenate the executive of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and the different political parties making up this government coalition, made little progress during these organisations' [.

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