What is Meles Zenawi?
{{Infobox officeholder |birth_name=Legesse Zenawi Asres |name = Meles Zenawi<br>{{small|መለስ ዜናዊ}} |image = Meles Zenawi - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg |caption = Zenawi at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, January 2012 |office = [[Prime Minister of Ethiopia]] |president = [[Negasso Gidada]]<br>[[Girma Wolde-Giorgis]] |term_start = 23 August 1995 |term_end = 20 August 2012 |predecessor = [[Tamirat Layne]] {{small|(Acting)}} |successor = [[Hailemariam Desalegn]] |office1 = [[President of Ethiopia]] |primeminister1 = [[Tesfaye Dinka]]<br>[[Tamirat Layne]] |term_start1 = 28 May 1991 |term_end1 = 22 August 1995 |predecessor1 = [[Tesfaye Gebre Kidan]] {{small|(Acting)}} |successor1 = [[Hailemariam Desalegn]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1955|5|8|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Adwa]], [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopia]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2012|8|20|1955|5|8|df=y}} |death_place = [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]] |party = [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]] |otherparty = [[Tigrayan People's Liberation Front]] |spouse = [[Azeb Mesfin]] |alma_mater = [[Open University]]<br>[[Erasmus University Rotterdam]] }} '''Meles Zenawi Asres''' (8 May 1955 &ndash; 20 August 2012) was the [[Prime Minister of Ethiopia]] since 1995 till his death on 20 August 2012. He was [[President of Ethiopia]] from 1991 to 1995. Since 1985, he was the chairman of the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front, and the head of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. Meles was born in Adwa, Tigray in Northern [[Ethiopia]], to an [[Ethiopia]]n father from Adwa, Ethiopia, and a mother from Adi Quala, [[Eritrea]].<ref>{{Cite news | title= Profile: Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4545711.stm | agency=[[BBC]] | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051231052602/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4545711.stm | archivedate=31 December 2005 | date=10 August