Meles Zenawi
Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Why Is Meles Zenawi Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Meles Zenawi Asres was an Ethiopian soldier and politician who served as President of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and then Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 until his death in 2012. 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 1975. Shortly that year, he left Haile Selassie I University to join the Tigray People's Liberation Front and fight against the Derg . In 1989, he became the chairman of the TPLF, and the head of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front after its formation in 1988.
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