Meles Zenawi Asres is the Prime Minister

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 of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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. Since 1985, he has been chairman of the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF), and is currently head of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front

Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front

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 (EPRDF).

Meles was born in Adwa

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, Tigray

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 in Northern Ethiopia

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, to an Ethiopia

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n father from Adwa, Ethiopia, and a mother from Adi Quala

Adi Quala

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, Eritrea. He graduated from the General Wingate high school in Addis Ababa

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, then studied medicine at Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University

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 (at the time known as Haile Selassie University) for two years before interrupting his studies in 1975 to join the TPLF.