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President Girma Wolde Giorgis
President Girma Wolde
Giorgis II
Prime minister Meles Zenawi
Prime Minister Meles
Zenawi IV
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Ethiopian general election, 2010
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Politics of Ethiopia takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament. The Judiciary is more or less independent of the executive and the legislature. Politics of Ethiopia

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi appoints 48 State Ministers

20 October, 2010

Reporter - Yesterday the office of the Prime Minister announced the appointment of 48 state ministers.

Prominent Ethiopian Opposition Leader Released From Prison

Prominent Ethiopian Opposition Leader Released From Prison

06 October 2010

VOANews - Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa has been released from prison, 21 months after authorities revoked an earlier pardon and ordered her to serve out a life sentence for treason.

Ethiopia's Meles sworn-in as PM after May elections

Ethiopia's Meles sworn-in as PM after May elections

04 October, 2010

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi is expected to appoint new ministers this week after being sworn in in as Prime Minister by parliament on Monday four months after a disputed landslide election win.

Ethiopia revokes life sentence pardon for opposition leader

31 December, 2008

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia has arrested the leader of the country's largest opposition party and overturned the jail pardon from life imprisonment she was granted last year, state media said on Tuesday.

Ethiopian president reelected for new six-year-term

President Girma Wolde-Giorgis

09 October, 2007

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The Ethiopian parliament on Tuesday reelected President Girma Wolde-Giorgis for a new six-year-term to his largely ceremonial post.