Interview with Reuters Africa

UPDATE: 5/25, Barry Malone, an Addis Ababa-based reporter, alerted me on Twitter to another Reuters piece (based on the same interview) titled "Ethiopia's ruling party set for landslide win," which quotes me much more extensively. Malone's stories also appear in Cape Times, Yahoo! News and Kuwait Times.

Full text here. Here's the quote:

"As countries like China, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia and Brazil increase their engagement in Ethiopia, Meles may conclude that he does not have to pay quite so much attention to the concerns of Western countries," David Shinn, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia told Reuters.