Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles wins election

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:55:01 AM GMT Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:23:06 AM GMT

May 24 (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's ruling party has won a national election, according to provisional results announced by the electoral board on Monday.

Here are some facts about Meles: * The former rebel was born Legesse Zenawi in Adwa, a town in the northern Tigryan region of Ethiopia in May 1955. While at university he took the name Meles in homage to Meles Tekle, a Tigryan nationalist student killed by the ethnic Amhara-domi...

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