Profile: Ethiopian leader Meles Zenaw

Mr Meles is the African Union's spokesperson for climate change

Drive out of the main Bole International airport in the capital, Addis Ababa, and you are immediately confronted by building works all the way down to the central Meskel square.
Leave the capital and your journey will no doubt be slowed down by road works.
It is all part of an ambitious program to industrialise the Horn of Africa's most stable country over the next five years.
And that ambition belongs to the Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his governing coalition, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
Mr Meles has led the country for 19 years, after abandoning his medical studies at the Addis Ababa University to help overthrow the communist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
In interviews with international media organisations last year, he said he wanted to step down and serve the party in a different capacity.
Intolerance and disregard
But a congress of the EPRDF decided he could not go just yet, he had to stay on and help groom a successor Speaking to foreign journalists during one of his monthly news conferences, Mr Meles, 55, said he would respect the party's decision.
Ethiopia's prime minister returned to his books in the 1990s, obtaining an MBA from a British university and another masters in economics from a Dutch university almost 10 years later.more,,.