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Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 to 2012

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 1955 – 20 August 2012)^[2] was an Ethiopian politician and a former anti-Derg militant who served as president of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and as prime minister 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.

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 Ethi