Adwa
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Adwa is a town and separate woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is best known as the community closest to the site of the 1896 Battle of Adwa, in which Ethiopian soldiers defeated Italian troops, th
City of Adwa
Meles Zenawi
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Meles Zenawi Asres, born Legesse Zenawi Asres was an Ethiopian politician and former rebel militant commander who served as president of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and as prime minister from 1995 unti
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…all three of the leaders of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) over the 22-year period from 1975 to 1997, Aregawi Berhe, Sebhat Nega, and Meles Zenawi, all came from Adwa and attended the town's government school. Adwa was a frequent target of attacks by the TPLF during the Ethiopian Civil War: in…
Meles in 2012
Meles (far right) sitting next to Bereket Simon in a 1970s political meeting
Journalists training in 2005
Meles in 2002 photographed by Helene C. Stikkel