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Prime Minister of Ethiopia from to

In this Ethiopian name, the name Zenawi Asres is a patronymic, and the person should be referred by the given name, Meles.

Meles Zenawi Asres (Tigringa and Amharic: መለስ ዜናዊ ኣስረስ; pronounced[mɛllɛszenawiasrɛs]listen^ⓘ), born Legesse Zenawi Asres (8 May – 20 August )^[2] was an Ethiopian politician and a former anti-Derg militant who served as president of Ethiopia from to and as prime minister from until his death in

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 In that year, he left Haile Selassie I University to join the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and fight against the Derg (the Mengistu Haile Mariam-led military dictatorship in Ethiopia).

In , he became the chairman of the TPL