Ethiopia's ruling coalition will hold a meeting of its governing council Friday and Saturday to choose a successor to former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died last month, the coalition said in a statement.
"The council assigns the chairperson of the organisation that replaces our great leader, who departed from us suddenly," said a statement Thursday on the website of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition. During his 21 years in power, Meles was both EPRDF chairman and prime minister.