1.Mr Meles, who was in power for 21 years, died last month after a long illness.

2.The city is currently in deep mourning for Ethiopia's longstanding leader, Meles Zenawi, who died in August.

3.Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, who ruled for 21 years and died last summer, built Ethiopia’s booming economy but also squashed all dissent.

4.“The Amhara militia cut people’s heads,” said a Humera resident named Meles, who wanted to be identified by only his first name out of fear of retribution.

5.Meles, who owned a small cafe, said that the Fano’s reputation preceded them and that just as he feared, he encountered many dead bodies along the way to Sudan.

6.Not much has changed since our last dictator, Mr. Meles, died last August.

7.“All of us here in Ethiopia are in a foreign land and suffering from acute poverty and hunger,” said Meles Sidisto, the community head of Ethiopian Jews in Addis Ababa.

8.“Now I’m not sure what to expect, everyone is pretty scared about what might happen without Meles.”

9.In 2012, there were similar rumours that Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia – said to be mysteriously having treatment abroad – was actually dying.

10.Meles Zenawi, who played a key role in the rebellion to overthrow the Mengistu regime, took power, serving as president and later as prime minister.

11.Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained.

12.Meles's policies often involved a heavy role for the state and have delivered strong growth.

13.Hailemariam Desalegn became Ethiopian prime minister after the death of Meles Zenawi last year Thousands of protesters have demonstrated in the Ethiopian capital to demand the release of jailed journalists and activists.

14.He represented the United Nations at the funeral of Ethiopian strongman Meles Zenawi, who led the country for more than 20 years, promoting economic growth while clamping down on dissent.

15.Meles introduces a system that gives the country's main ethnic groups the chance to govern the areas in which they dominate.

16.In September of 2015 he was confirmed as head of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, itself a coalition whose key component is still Meles’s Tigrayan front.

17.Thirty-three-year-old Daniel Meles and his group of 10 Ethiopian friends discussed the film as they left the theatre.

18.The country’s revered former prime minister of 17 years, Meles Zenawi, would probably not have let the programme kick off.

19."Whatever his faults, Meles gave Ethiopia a long period of stability and sustained economic growth," he said, adding there was no evidence of tensions that could break up the coalition.

20.“Replacing him is difficult by itself,” Mr. Hallelujah said of Mr. Meles.